10 Video Games That KNEW You'd Try To Cheat
6. Gradius III - The Konami Code Strikes Back
The Konami Code is one of the most famous cheats of all time. It first rose to prominence in the 1980s, when developer Kazuhisa Hashimoto wanted to make his job of testing the NES port of Gradius (a Konami title) much easier. So, he created the code to give himself a full set of power-ups, allowing him to beat the game with ease.
From there, the code popped up in a whole host of other games - some of them not even associated with Konami - and its popularity meant that developers started to anticipate that their players would try to use it.
And this allowed them to have some fun with the effects of the code.
One of the best examples of this can be found in Gradius III on the SNES, where using it will actually blow up the player's ship. This effect can be bypassed by switching up a few of the inputs, but because the majority of players would obviously not know that, they would go ahead and type in the traditional Konami code, expecting some sort of cool buff... and watch their ship turn into a ball of fire.