{"id":"konami-code","name":"Konami Code","summary":"The Konami Code is a ten-button cheat sequence (Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A) first buried in the 1986 NES port of Gradius by programmer Kazuhisa Hashimoto[1]. It jumped from arcade lore into wider web culture in the late 2000s, when sites like Facebook and ESPN.com wired it into their pages as a hidden trigger, spawning one of the internet's longest-running easter egg traditions[2].","tags":["konami code","cheat code","gradius","contra 30 lives","konami code easter egg","up up down down left right left right b a","video game cheats"],"howToUse":[],"imageCount":6,"nsfw":false,"images":[{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/konami-code/konami-code-konami-code-sequence-arrows.webp","caption":"The iconic Konami Code input sequence: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A.","width":1920,"height":1080,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/konami-code/konami-code-yugioh-energy-controller-scene.webp","caption":"A Yu-Gi-Oh! anime scene where a duelist activates the 'Energy Controller' card and inputs the Konami Code on-screen.","width":721,"height":1226,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/konami-code/konami-code-last-supper-konami-code-parody.webp","caption":"'The Konami Code' — a Last Supper parody depicting an apostle absorbed in an NES game while the others look on.","width":1920,"height":1093,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/konami-code/konami-code-konami-27-years-cheat-meme.webp","caption":"Meme celebrating that Konami has 'let you use the same cheat code for 27 years' with an accompanying arrow-plot chart.","width":1778,"height":584,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/konami-code/konami-code-same-cheat-code-27-years.webp","caption":"Meme praising Konami for letting players use the same cheat code — the Konami Code — for 27 years.","width":640,"height":580,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/konami-code/konami-code-geico-konami-code-ad.webp","caption":"A GEICO print ad that riffs on the Konami Code as a call-to-action to 'Unlock big savings'.","width":500,"height":670,"nsfw":false}],"historyUrl":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/konami-code/history.md","related":["final-fantasy-vii","age-of-empires","crash-bandicoot","the-game","the-s-doodle","arrow-to-the-knee","battle-pass-grind","wordle-memes","flappy-bird","garten-of-banban","henry-stickmin","marie-rose"],"popularityRank":4475,"license":"Meme images and history: templates, screenshots, photos and fan edits, many of copyrighted material or real people. Explicit and offensive memes and images are included and flagged nsfw. Check you have the right to use an image before publishing."}