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If you grew up playing the NES in the ‘80s, the famed “Konami code” is practically part of your DNA. It’s the code that gave players of Konami’s incredibly difficult alien shoot-em-up Contra 30 lives ...

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, rest in peace. Kazuhisa Hashimoto, a producer credited with implementing the fabled “Konami Code” that gave players godlike cheats in Contra, Gradius, ...

The Konami Code is all over pop culture as a key video game reference. Seemingly everyone remembers it...even those who probably never played Contra. While this is probably the most memorable code (it ...

Kazuhisa Hashimoto, inventor of the most famous video game code of all time, the Konami Code, has died at the age of 79. In honor of the former Konami producer and the famous code he left all of us, ...

Contra is making a return after a successful run more than 25 years ago in arcades and on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Contra: Evolution is the first official mobile version of the platform ...