Do you remember the Game Genie for the NES?
Many of you were too young to have owned the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), but if you do remember the original Nintendo, then you may remember the Game Genie. This little device would attach to most NES game cartridges and came with a book of various cheat codes.
Back then, most games didn’t have cheat codes scripted into the games themselves (with the exception of Life Force, Contra and a few others). Anywho, my friends and I would stay up all night mixing the codes to see what would happen. We would take the first letters of one code and the last letters of another code, put a code in opposite order, or whatever else we thought might work. Sometimes it would work and sometimes it would not, but when it did work it was pretty awesome! We actually turned all the bad dudes on Super Mario Bros. into King Koopas!
I wish I still had all of our codes written down. We didn’t have blogs back then. You had to write into gaming magazines if you wanted to share gaming tips. Here is a compendium of official Game Genie codes for the Nintendo.
If you have an old Nintendo (NES) and can find a Game Genie on eBay, you can try it for yourself. Be sure to share your results with us.
Below are some related links to this topic:
- Super Mario Bros. Game Genie Codes (YouTube Video)
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27 Oct 2008 Catholic Tech Tips
Great and informative post Josh ;)
I’m not that young. I remember having to blow on the cartridge to get the game to work!
HA-HA! We used to do that too : )
Oh my word, blowing on the cartridges. I had to do that as well. The trick I learned was to “erase” all the deposits from the contacts and then you were good to go for a while.
The Sega Genesis had the same issue and I used the same solution.
BTW, just found the site form PickAFig. Finally Tech and Catholic in one spot. Nice.
What would happen if you had 2 Game Genies .
Could you put them together and get more codes?
Ha-ha! I’ve never thought of that. How about you try it and let us know what happens ; )
By the way, welcome to the blog!