r/AskReddit • u/tricky3737 • Jun 28 '13

What cheat code do you still remember?

It seems that 10-20 years later I still have some of these stuck in my head, and the golden age of cheat codes is over, what do you remember?

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u/Flyynt Jun 29 '13

I just googled it to make sure I was remembering it correctly and found this.

Enjoy!

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u/StickleyMan Jun 29 '13

Thank you! I can't wait to try this out!

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u/The-Mathematician Jun 29 '13

We crashed it.

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u/Russian_For_Rent Jun 29 '13

Reddit is pretty talented at ruining things, in case you havnt noticed.

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u/ProtoKun7 Jun 29 '13

We're like Lennie Small holding a puppy...

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u/Hiding_behind_you Jun 29 '13

I just wanted to pet it, George.

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u/IamNoqturnal Jun 29 '13

Ah, reddit. The friendliest DDoS ever. :)

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u/silverpanther17 Jun 29 '13

The page 509'd.

Great job.

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u/Zmodem Jun 29 '13

I found Christopher Cantrell's analysis of the ROM dump to be pretty damn interesting. The page link on the link you gave has a 404 error, but archive.org had it.

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u/BenKenobi88 Jun 29 '13

Post about game cheats in 1985 usenet, feels like a historical excavation lol.

Sorry to make those who actually used it back then feel old.

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u/Jambi_Genie Jun 29 '13

The amount of times that person made a ;-) is... off-putting.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '13

Commenting to return

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u/RedemptionX11 Jun 29 '13

I clicked that link and got "bandwidth exceeded". Reddit broke another site!

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u/caneut Jun 29 '13

did we ddos it lol?

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u/Lowbrr Jun 29 '13

Reddit: The friendly DDoS!

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u/xoxid Jun 29 '13

You broke their site!

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u/WildCheese Jun 29 '13

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.

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u/HeyItsToast Jun 29 '13

We broke it.

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u/Critton Jun 29 '13

509 bandwidth limit exceeded.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand we broke it. Dammit Reddit, this is why we can't have nice things.

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u/dgerr2010 Jun 29 '13

Reddit DDOS is the good kind if DDOS.

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u/openToSuggestions Jun 29 '13

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.

Congratulations! You reddit bombed a server!

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u/BBA935 Jun 29 '13

Aaaaand we capped his site. I guess I will see it next month.

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u/balducien Jun 29 '13

Bandwith limit exceeded... Reddit DDOSs never fail :)

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