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Do you remember the Game Genie for the NES?

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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.

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9 Responses to “Do you remember the Game Genie for the NES?”

on 28 Oct 2008 at 11:36 am 1Jorim

Great and informative post Josh ;)

on 29 Oct 2008 at 12:35 am 2catholicinfilmschool

I’m not that young. I remember having to blow on the cartridge to get the game to work!

on 29 Oct 2008 at 10:30 am 3Joshua of Catholic Tech Tips

HA-HA! We used to do that too : )

on 08 Nov 2008 at 8:53 pm 4Mark

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.

on 09 Dec 2008 at 10:38 pm 5Stitch

What would happen if you had 2 Game Genies .
Could you put them together and get more codes?

on 10 Dec 2008 at 10:59 am 6Joshua of Catholic Tech Tips

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!

on 19 Feb 2009 at 12:55 am 7Catholic Nerd

I didn’t have it, but I did have the powerpad and the zapper.

And I lost my vision in 6th grade playing Castlevania…might have been a coincidence, but I still need glasses.

on 19 Feb 2009 at 10:28 am 8victor

I didn’t have the NES one, but I had the Sega Genesis Game Genie. It was fun. You could make Sonic run straight through the scenery, replace him with a garbled block of digital hash… and that was about it. Most of the time we wound up crashing the game. I still have a bunch of the weirder codes written down and stashed away with my SMS and Genesis.

on 19 Feb 2009 at 10:39 am 9Joshua of Catholic Tech Tips

Catholic Nerd,

My cousins had the Powerpad! I was horrible at jumping hurdles. They also had the Powerglove, but I didn’t really fancy it too much.

I bought a wireless zapper at Children’s Palace for five bucks right before they went out of business. It was pretty cool. I could sit on my top-bunk and pick off ducks and flying discs. Did you know that you could control the ducks with the second controller?

I also had a controller with a turbo switch. It was great for Contra! No Wait! It was not great for Contra, because Contra already had auto-fire built into it.

Victor,

You should so post those codes to the World Wide Web! : )

Do you remember the Game Genie for the NES?

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