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		<title>The Konami Code Celebrates Its 35th Anniversary with Special Album of Lo-Fi Gradius Tracks</title>
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<p>It&#8217;s been a banner year for anniversaries in video games. <em>Zelda</em> turned 35 in February, <em>Pokemon</em> turned 25, <em>Street Fighter 2</em> turned 30, <em>Halo</em> is about to turn 20, the list goes on. But on April 25th, another video game legend celebrates its anniversary. It&#8217;s the Konami Code, probably the most well-known cheat code ever, which turns 35 this year.</p>
<p>To celebrate the code (and <em>Gradius</em>, which is where it initially appeared), Konami has released several remixed &#8220;lo-fi&#8221; tracks, complete with a cool animation of a pilot playing <em>Gradius</em> in space. While most folks probably associate the Konami Code with 1987&#8217;s <em>Contra</em>, where it would give you 30 extra lives, it actually got its start in the home release of <em>Gradius</em> in 1986, where it would unlock just about every power up in the game.</p>
<p>The story behind the code is that Kazuhisa Hashimoto, who worked on the Famicom port of <em>Gradius</em>, which was originally an arcade title, found the game so hard to test that he added the code to help him beat the game. Konami didn&#8217;t learn about the code until after the game came out, but they decided to leave it in instead of removing it and potentially messing up other sections of the game&#8217;s code.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, <a href="https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/02/the_creator_of_the_worlds_most_famous_cheat_code_has_died" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hashimoto died last year</a>, but his legacy lives on every time someone inputs Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start.</p>
<p>You can check out the lo-fi <em>Gradius</em> remixes below, courtesy of Konami.</p>
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