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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Democratic Movement president François Bayrou may be a longshot in next week’s French presidential election, but he’s won my nonexistent vote with a secret NES-era message hidden in his official website via the Konami Code.
While Lisa’s shown that Konami’s iconic code has been to some strange places, few are as exotic as the Mushroom Kingdom, via Hyrule.
There are misdemeanours I have committed in this life, I’ll admit it. For example, I recently got a ticket for jaywalking and it cost me $US200. For jaywalking. I’m still very angry about this situation and am actively devising a plan to exact revenge on the LAPD, and guess what! Now you’re all accomplices.
If you grew up in the 1980s and played video games, you know the Konami Code. It’s very easy to remember. Kazuhisa Hashimoto, inventor of the Konami Code, said there’s a reason for that.
Tattoo spied at the Brighton Tattoo Convention in London last month. It references the lyrics of “Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start” by the Ataris. Picture by Iris James, seen via Hawty McBloggy.
While it’s not as, ahem, magical as its employment on the ESPN front page, you can still find a use for the Konami Code on the new Palm Pre smartphone.
Any of you use Google Reader for your RSS needs? I do. Mostly because I can access it from any PC, and it’s super-easy to use. Anyway, enough of the free advertising! Seems somebody at Google HQ is a fan of the ol’ Konami code, because it’s been found that if you open up your Google Reader and punch in the code on your keyboard (with arrow keys for direction), you’ll get a neat – if tough on the eyes – little treat.
Google hearts the Konami code [CrunchGear, via Boing Boing]
