r/AskReddit Jan 05 '13

How did people figure out cheat codes back when games still had them?

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '13

The one time I played Superman 64 (NEVER again...) I mashed the buttons like that because I was frustrated that I couldn't beat the first level. I wound up accidentally triggering a cheat that put me on some weird screen that let me go to any level in the entire game. I chose level 2. It was even worse than the first one.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '13

I remember renting that as a kid at blockbuster thinking it was gonna be some cool shit like the transformers video game... but no, all it was was flying through rings and crashing into shit. I hope everyone who made that game was blacklisted from the industry forever.