Very First Video Game Cheat Code I Ever Used | Spy Hunter on NES
76Do you remember what the very first video game cheat code was that you ever used? Was it the 30-lives trick on Contra? Was it some other version of the Konami Code? Was it entering Zelda to get to the second quest on the original Legend of Zelda? I remember it very well for me, as I even used it as an entry for my middle school newspaper. The Very First Video Game Cheat Code I Ever Used was on Spy Hunter on the original Nintendo Entertainment System.
Looking back, we have a term for early games: NES Tough. This described unforgivably hard games, but at the same time, they are super fair. One of the games I loved from the Arcade and couldn't wait to play at home was Spy Hunter. I don't know if it was the Peter Gunn theme which I thought was weird that my parents actually recognized. I don't know if it was the combination of the shooting and driving modes as I loved driving games. I don't know it it was because the Steering Wheel in the arcade cabinet reminded me of K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider with its yoke design. I just know I loved it. But one other truth was that I was, and still am, terrible at the game.
From Wikipedia:
Spy Hunter is a vehicular combat action game developed by Bally Midway and released for arcades in 1984. The game draws inspiration from the James Bond films and was originally supposed to carry the James Bond brand. The object of the game is to drive down roads in the technologically advanced "Interceptor" car and destroy various enemy vehicles with a variety of onboard weapons. Spy Hunter was produced in both sit-down and standard upright versions with the latter being more common. The game's controls consist of a steering wheel in the form of a futuristic aircraft-style yoke with several special-purpose buttons, a two-position stick shift (offering 'low' and 'high' gears), and a pedal used for acceleration.
At the start of the game on the NES, if you hold down Start, Select, A & B at the same time, you actually start the game with all your weapons ready for combat! For me, I loved this! Until, that is, I died, and was back to the basic weapons again. But I did eventually get better, I got to the boat levels, and loved this game.
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