8 Video Games That Reward You For Doing Nothing

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A

I genuinely think that this series of button inputs has become so ingrained in my memory that if I ever have kids that I might accidentally end up naming at least one of them "Konami Code", at least one. Child cruelty aside this really is the king of cheat codes and has become so enveloped in the public consciousness that it's appeared in multiple titles outside of Konami's oily grasp as well as showing up in TV, film and comics for years.

That said though, all those button prompts sure do tire out our fingers and so what if I were to tell you there was a cheat code out there that asked you to do precisely nothing and doled out a rather hefty reward for doing so?

Well come with me friend to the absolute bat s**t and !*$% world of the Shinobi games, which were harder than trying to eat a block of ice with your eyes and equally solid to the core. These were the hardest of the hard, the most challenging of the already punishing formative years of gaming, so crying to the skies for help was a common solution.

Remember we didn't have internet back then.

Thankfully the devs decided to provide an inverse situation to the challenging in-game action with the infinite shurikens cheat, which only required you to head to the options menu, turn your starting shuriken amount to zero and wait about twenty seconds upon which the symbol would turn to an infinite sign!

Infinite death discs! Unlimited stabby business cards! All-you-can-eat lethal wafers! All for taking a moment to mediate/deep breath/cry about the aforementioned difficulty.