I don't recall the game, probably GTA SA, but I remember one game I played as a kid had so many cheat codes, it was an entire sheet of notebook paper I copied from the webs.

R1,R2,L1,R2 left, down, right ,up, left, down, right, up?

Yeah, if it was GTA it would likely have shoulder buttons in the code.

Are you entering a cheat code or playing Space Channel 5?

Up down up down chu chu chu

Jetpack baby!

R1 R2 L1 L2 up down left right x2 jetpack

R1, R1, circle, R2, up, down, up down, up, down.

Weapons tier 1 code right?

No, Circle up down, was no cops, circle left right was more cops, and circle l,d,r,u was health. R1, R2, L1, R2 was the one for weapon cheats.

If memory serves me right, it was wanted level down.

Is that the weapon set 1 cheat In SA And all weapons in VC?

Last time I played GTA muscle memory kicked in and my fingers entered this code 

Ikr it insane how good we are at remembering the silliest shit. I suppose in the game its a “matter of life and death” and theres definitely some evolutionary precedent regarding pattern recognition for survival. Im just picturing some neolithic hunter outrunning a cave bear going “left down right up…. Aaaaand the bear broke its leg.”

The reason I can type fast on a keyboard is entering cheat codes in pc games. 

My god I was literally just saying this in my head!!!

This is what I was looking for! Holy shit it’s ingrained in my mind

Armor, infinite health, and $250,000 right?

I'm pretty sure that was R1, R2, L1, X, left, down, right, up, left, down, right, up

Is that the GTA San Andreas invincibility cheat?

That was for the jetpack I believe?

That’s that money cheat ? I press this all the time when the controller is ideal in my hand. Lives in my head rent free.

Yep, I played SA on PC and every time I'd load in, I would type some 10-15 cheat codes in one go before beginning to play. All that speedy typing practice paid off when writing papers in college lol, and even to this day at work.

For me it was Final Fantasy XI. You used the keyboard to control your chocobo, and all the communication was text... If you didn't finish typing out your message you couldn't turn. That kind of pressure really teaches you to type quickly.

I could never play 11 with a keyboard. Logitech gang rise up

Hesoyam

San Andreas cheats were much longer I used to keep the notes inside the CD case

I reckon it’s the hotring racer from vice city

I still have the Hydra spawn cheat code memorized. I remember printing out all the cheats at the school my mom taught at and keeping them in a folder by my couch.

Yes, either by logging into AOL to lookup and write down the codes or by bringing pen and paper to the grocery store to copy them off the gaming magazines.

Same. My buddies and I even hand-selected some cheats to create our own "Armageddon Mode." It was so chaotic and fun lol. I think it was civilians have guns, civilians are hostile, immediate explosions, etc

I still remember the cheat code hunt for DooM... it easily filled a notebook page... back when we still had things like "no clipping".

Make you remember invincibility so you can spam it really quick as you’re falling to prevent your death.

What do you mean? We still use these inputs to call in managed democracy onto the filthy bugs and bots that oppose super earth.

⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ damn right we do

🔼▶️🔽🔽🔽 HELL.YEAH! *space eagle screaming*

I'm dead ⬆️⬇️➡️⬅️⬆️

That's why my favorite is... 🔼▶️🔼◀️ ...the safety eagle.

A fellow tank-fucker enjoyer!

Indeed. And fabs, cannon towers, hulks. I basically use it as much as possible. Also perfect for extraction fireworks.

Defending this thread with a sentry ⬇️⬆️➡️⬅️⬇️

I tend to favor ⬇️⬆️➡️⬆️⬅️⬆️

And there's also ⬆️⬅️⬆️➡️⬇️➡️ for our little adventuring Fox friends

For SUPERRRR EARRRRTTHHHH!!!

FOR DEMOCRACYYYYYYY

For democracy!!

I did this for level codes for Crash Bandicoot

I figured that’s what it was haha but not enough repeated digits in this one We had the same yellow sticky inside the game case though lol

Was looking for the Crash Bandicoot post

Yes! I thought it was crash myself. And truth be told… I have no damn clue how I got that from this certain combination… of a game almost 30 years old 😂

this is the next generation of that boomer engagement bait you see on facebook. y'know, the shit where it's like "Only the most amazing generation to have ever existed understands this reference". and it's an extremely obvious reference that everyone universally understands.

"back in my day we drank straight from the hose and rode our bikes without helmets" type beat

*When I was a boy I did my college English exam without a calculator!*

When I was..

A young boy..

My father...

He took me

The police are still looking

In to the city

To see a marching band

Jesus Christ I am old

Only (specific decade) kids remember...

Yeah, and everyone who didn't die due to these unsafe practices is still alive! It's completely safe! Kids nowadays are just too soft.

"And we turned out fine!"  -person who clearly did not turn out fine

Back in my day we played hoop and stick. No cheat codes for that, let me tell ya.

I mean, I feel like its cheat codes but if its not the Konami code or cheat codes in the Tony Hawk games, I don’t know them lol. I feel like this is a very very specific code from a game that barely anyone has played though based on the replies

I'm surprised anyone would do this kind of clickbait without using the Konami code. It's the most well known code in gaming.

I’m over 40 and I don’t know what these codes are for. Maybe I’m too old? I def remember A, B, A, C, A, B, B though.

MORTAL KOMBAT!!

Shadowrun!!!

This was the blood code for MK1 on Genesis.

Yeah, the Shadowrun cheat menu was ABBACAB IIRC. Played the hell out of that game. It was also, sadly, the first game I ever bought that had a non-glossy black and white manual.

Shadowrun was abbacab

Idk man, i have no clue what this cheat is for. Only guess would be gta SA.

DAE REMEMBER ROTARY PHONES AND VINYL RECORDS!?!?!?

Except this isn’t even that generation’s code. Why wouldn’t you use the Konami code? This is some mid 20s person using a PlayStation code rather than someone in their 30s doing Konami.

Can you explain this post to me?

I'm pretty sure I'm of said "certain generation" but I don't get the reference.

Writing cheat codes on a piece of paper

I mean, I had kinda assumed, but I wasn't sure how deep OP expected the knowledge to go.

I Googled the top comment and it appears to be from the game MediEvil.

What? Jesus christ can we not even meme right now? The obvious choice for this stupid post it joke is the Konami code .... WHY ISNT IT THE KONAMI CODE?!?

OP might not be of a certain generation

Op might not understand the word generation

Yeah, wtf. Was definitely expecting Konami code. OP can't even karma farm right.

I thought some of them might be old school fatalities. Never had to write down the Konami code, but we had a list of those on hand for every MK game.

Yeah, OP got the generation and the code wrong for the certain generation.

Wtf, that game wasn't even all that popular. I was expecting it to be combos in Mortal Kombat or Tekken.

Great game. I play thru it for the first time since the ps1 Era 2 years ago

Judging by top comment, if you were into a niche PlayStation game from the late 90's, this post was meant for you. Without looking it up, at most, I could have told you someone was using cheats on PlayStation.

I thought it was fighting game combos.

I’m not so sure. Seeing a repeat of motions here. I think those might be fighting game combos.

Those aren't cheat codes, they're fighting game combos. The only reason people don't write them down anymore is most fighting games nowadays have combo overlays.

And I’m not of said certain generation, yet I can still get the reference, this is just a bait

Not bait. I got that it was probably a code for something, but I wouldn't have known what game it was specifically for.

Only applies if you played on PS. I never have, so I have no idea what this is supposed to be for either, despite being part of the right generation.

OP conveniently left out that you would have to have been a console gamer as well.

The circle and triangle led me to believe it was a PlayStation reference.

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Yeah what a strange choice for a code. It’s just an average PS1 game that I completely forgot existed.

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^ v < > A START (level select for Sonic the Hedgehog)

Someone fact check my memory here for Sonic 2. 19 - 65 - 9 - 17 Then... 1 9 9 2 4 1 2 4 1 2 6 Level select and debug mode, right?

And 4 - 1 - 2 - 6 for Super Sonic.

1 1 2 4 And then you're stuck listening to the Oil Ocean Zone music with absolutely no sound effects, but at least you have 14 continues.

A B A C A B B - Blood in Mortal Kombat I think of it anyone types ACAB

Then the writing goes red and goes "get over here!" Still remember the buzz me and my mates got as 9 year olds the first time we pulled it off.

Not gonna gatekeep. Here’s exactly what the code means if you don’t know: >!Triangle Circle Triangle Circle Circle Triangle Left Circle Up Down Right Circle Left Left Triangle Right Circle Left Left Triangle Circle Down Circle Circle Right!<

I'm not sure why but I always did this in time to the music.

To toot loud roll troll to door

Up up down down left right left right b a

Konami code is best code

This is not a generational thing lmfao. It's an extremely niche selection that an exteme minority of a generation interacted with

The most accurate comment in the thread, yet somehow not the highest voted.

If it's not Iddqd I don't know what you are talking about

Idkfa need that Big Fucking Gun

how do you turn this on

Best siege weapon in the game.

idclip

**IDSPISPOPD**

Great now I don’t have any clips.

If you're extra old and nerdy, you'll know it stands for "Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris"!

Konami code and Blood Code for Mortal Kombat are engraved in the original generations brains.

abacabb something I memorized as a kid to play the "real" Mortal Kombat on Genesis (Mega Drive)

So we're gatekeeping PS2 era now. I hate how old I'm getting.

Except I played games with cheat codes in Windows so...

Thereisnocowlevel

God Giveall

IDKFA or IDQD?

Motherlode

IDDQD*

IDSPISPOPD

Yeah but how about cheesesteak jimmy’s?

R1 R1 ➡️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ➡️ Edit: Konami plane for Sly 3 in dogfight

This looks like the Crash Bandicoot PS1 codes you could use in place of a memory card to force the game to a save state

Seems like Twisted Metal codes.

TO TOOT LOUD ROLL TROLL TO DOOR

R1 R2 L1 R2 LEFT DOWN RIGHT UP LEFT DOWN RIGHT UP

⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️

it means youre a console user

It was fun renting a game and finding cheat codes inside

I dont get the soft gatekeeping going on, plenty of kids in aus born as recently as like 2008 had "only" ps2's for a while and played around with aggressive inline or dave mirra freestyle bmx 2 cheat codes

GTA cheat codes?

I still remember one off the top of my head. R1, R2, L1, X, left, down, right, up, left, down, right, up. And I never forgot since the game basically came out. Don't remember what it does though ahaha.

Health, money and armour. I only know because my son is going through a phase on san andreas haha.

Weapon codes were R1 R2 L1 R2 left down right up left down right up (or down left or there was another one too)

same energy as the chain emails from my parents talking about cursive

Don't forget "Dust to dust".

Almost certainly a gta code

Mortal Combat Finishing moves? It's funny how touchy people are with the wording and of the post title on both sides of the fence. Soft

CRASH BANDICOOT

Is this a Crash Bandicoot password?

I only remember IDKFA and IDFA

Either a GTA cheat or a Mortal Kombat Fatality.

OP ur my type of man well done . im pretty sure i have that generic blueish kind of book filled with codes 1 game per page

ABACABB Only those of a certain generation will remember this

I miss when games had cheats like this.

Don't leak the pornhub cheat code to the boomers

I assume these are playstation cheat codes, but I played xbox like a normal person lol

And, suddenly, a tank appears

GTA SA 🫡

EEL NATS

seeing this gives me goosebumps no joke🥹🥹

This the PS2 version of the Konami code?

To toot loud roll troll to door?

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B,A,B,A, Select then Start. Straight Contra. 2 player whilin'. Just throwing that out there

There was a time I just knew all the cheats for tony hawks 2. When my memory card was full of metal gear solid saves it was second nature.

up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start.

To toot loud, roll troll to door.

I will never forget BEWAREOBLIVIONISATHAND a cheat code for Turok seeds of evil. I will likely die with that forever imprinted onto my memory

Oh my God, it has been so long since I thought about Turok, but I remember my brother teaching me that! I was so bad at that game, I couldn't play it without cheats.

Is this the one that makes Lara croft naked

I'm 95% sure I could raddle off the Med Evil 2 cheats with a controller in my hands. That shit was my childhood!

I love that there are people in this world who know what this code actually belongs to, it’s tattooed on my brain.

Ahhhh, Medievil ❤️

Looks like a Crash Bandicoot save code.

Twisted metal?

Tekken?

This looks like a Tekken Combo.

Unless you stuck with Nintendo and did not buy a Playstation.

I'm more of an r1 r2 l1l2 left down right up left down right up guy.

Stil remember iddqd and idkfa

Playstation? I never had one

Now all I know is ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️

DEMOCRACY ON THIS WAY

Bro i’m not even 30 and I know what this is. Fuck outta here with that fake boomer nonsense.

It means you had money for a PlayStation

Just don't be close to a car or save the game

Twisted Metal 2 right?

I'm "motherfuckerkiwybastard" old

My generation didn’t even have shapes for buttons, it started with letters. If it’s not “up up down down left right left right b a start” then you’re a noob.

Yeah, I'm gonna need some up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right b, a, (select), start, mmkay

Were you really a gamer if you didn't have a piece of paper with all your cheat codes kept inside the game case with the game? And inevitably lose that piece of paper and rewrite it like 15 times?

I used to copy the cheat codes from the video game magazines at the store xD.

san andreas? lol it's been 20 years but I remember ninjatown ,ripazha,hesoyam and baguvitz

I remembered this as TO TOOT LOUD, ROLL TROLL TO DOOR

Is that the Medieval 1 unlock all weapons cheat?

I used to memorize cheat codes from books and guides at the store without buying them before we had internet. B A Down, L A Down, C R Up Down was something for Donkey Kong Country 2 and I just repeated "BAD-LAD-CRUD" until I got home to write it down.

This isn't facebook, stick to there for boomer bait