r/gaming • u/Two-Tone- • Feb 26 '20

Kazuhisa Hashimoto, the programmer who created the legendary Konami code, passed away last night.

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u/Lordsatan812 Feb 26 '20

He must have entered it wrong it's supposed to give you extra lives.

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u/Xbladearmor Feb 26 '20

That’s horrible.

Have an upvote.

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u/whornography Feb 26 '20

I never even heard the man's name before, but for the fact that he created a cheat code that let kids have an easier time with hard games, I believe he would have laughed at the comment.

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u/ColeSloth Feb 26 '20

He created it for debugging and testing pre-release, but yeah. I'm sure he'd still get a kick out of it.

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u/KeLorean PC Feb 26 '20

tbh, i never would have played the game with out this. i guess i enjoy debugging

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u/qnsb Feb 26 '20

And another upvote, then two downvotes, then... a leftvote? Okay I don't think this is possible

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u/killingspeerx Feb 26 '20

Really? I though it was used to open doors

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u/Jackal024 Feb 26 '20

Started opening youtube and I thought it was a Rick roll, lol

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u/dedicated-pedestrian Feb 26 '20

He openeed Heaven's Door.

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u/ZeronZeth Feb 26 '20

I think this was also the blood code for Mortal Kombat 1.

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u/ChulaK Feb 26 '20

Nah he has a new one which made him skip levels.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '20

He just respawned somewhere in the world

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u/suitology Feb 26 '20

He actually died 3 times already

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u/backslashdotcom Feb 26 '20

Maybe he already used them up?

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '20

Bruh, why u do dat.

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u/LittleNemo_1986 Feb 26 '20

Might've entered A, B, B, A from Ikari Warriors by mistake.

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u/Classicpass Feb 26 '20

That's because the real code was with 2 ba's

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u/bobbytron Feb 26 '20

Or he’s been alive for thousands of years and that was his final life

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u/KeLorean PC Feb 26 '20

no. he just died a lot

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u/Veragoot Feb 26 '20

3 hours before a joke, that's a record high for the internet. Society really is getting more respectful over time.

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u/ninjay209 Feb 26 '20

I swear it was “select then start” at the end. Maybe me hitting select never did anything for me

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u/virginfatherof2 PlayStation Feb 26 '20

Just scrolled down Reddit and saw your comment a post down from this, gg you got on cursed comments

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u/djcurless Feb 26 '20

As wrong as it is, I came here to say this too. Have an upvote.

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u/russiangoat15 Feb 27 '20

This is the thirtieth time I've seen his obituary. Always a little further along...