10 Most Famous Video Game Cheat Codes

Who wants green blood in Mortal Kombat, anyway?

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[thMandalorian]

Who else remembers writing out all the cheat codes for a game on a piece of paper and treating it like a holy scroll.

[HavocHounds]

The SNES version of MK did not have a Blood Code, the Sega version did however.

[neahk]

I don't recall Mortal Kombat on the SNES having a cheat code for blood. The Genesis did.

[Jason_Van_Stone]

"In the NES version of the game"

Wasn't aware NES had Mortal Kombat.

[EvaFull]

Really shows the age of the people running the channel when in their own intro they completely forgot to mention The Game Genie as an old school cheat device we used.

[samuelkeatings]

Grand Theft Auto cheats are iconic. How are they not on here!

[HavocHounds]

Funny thing about the Cow Level is that they actually made it a special anniversary event in World of Warcraft about 5 years ago, and you would fight an onslaught of cows before fighting the Cow King. It was pretty fun.

[SALTYTOAD]

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

Get ready to kick some asses.

[ReverendRaff]

"Help U Sobi1"?

You fuckin with us right? You have GOT to be fuckin with us...

[rapthor]

iddqd insta killing you in Hexen or Heretic was a big laugh. 'This isn't doom'

[cheat]

R1, R2, L1, X, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT, UP, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT, BOOM!!Health, Armor and Money for CJ! I was

[skroz]

The first SimCity was 1989, and the code was Shift+FUND.

[BOABModels]

0:44 'These Pokeballs don't seem to be working!'

[cometomeifrit]

The modern day doomslayer HAS access to these codes Jess

[jamalvargas]

My Favorite Cheat Code was for the 2003 TMNT tie in game what a good time

[djinngee]

Ah, just makes me think back to sonic 2 sound test cheats!
19, 65, 09, 17 for level select
1, 9, 9, 2, 1, 1, 2, 4 for debug mode
4, 1, 2, 6 for super forms

[qwaH]

the best Jedi Knight series cheat was setting the mind trick to 4 to posses enemies then making them mow down their friends before leaping to their death.
MK blood code (2, 1, 2, down, up) was great on the Master System version (didnt have the Megadrove one back in the day)

[TheFerrisDude]

Was really hoping to see Age of Empires or San Andreas in here

[deathsnitemaresinfullust]

There were some pretty cool codes for Killer Instinct on SNES, different buttons tapped together during VS screen would change speed, lvl select(including 2 or 3 unique locations), all kinds of stuff.👍

[Ralphanthonybianscomusic]

“Up up down down left right left right B A start; just because we use cheats doesn’t mean we’re not smart”