Konami Code Flashback
Who remembers the “Konami code” from the good ol’ Nintendo days? Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Select, Start. I was wearing my “know your roots” tee-shirt—the one with the big 8-bit Nintendo controller on it and thought about that code for some strange reason. Maybe because it gave you unlimited health/lives/weapons/powers or whatever the game happened to offer by way of power-ups and I could totally use that right now.
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I TOTALLY remember the ‘code’.
I’ve seen some t-shirts with the code on them and thought about getting one. Here’s a link to one:
http://www.snorgtees.com/evengodknowsit-p-40.html
There’s lots more out there:
http://www.contracodetee.com/
Anyway, have an “unlimited health/lives/weapons/powers” day!
Nowadays, I usually go with:
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Select, Start brewing me a medium triple hazelnut latte.
It seems to do the trick.
Mmmmm… triple hazelnut latte. That’s all the power-up I need these days. But it doesn’t give me *unlimited* energy, as it would in a video game.