Poll of the Day > When was the first time you cheated in a video game?

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I have never used cheat codes much, but there was a few times I found a bug etc and used it. The first time I can remember is in a game called Wizardry Proving grounds of the Mad Overlord. You could make Bishop characters identify #9 and it would give them a gazzilion exp (which would let you level up, and then change your class into anything you wanted).

Was awesome lol, especially since this was WAY before the internet, so you couldn't just look online for cheats etc. It was word of mouth or self discovery. The game itself was the same (you literally had to figure out what spells did, and type in the spell name etc...it was all new.)

So...what was your first cheat in a game if you have every used one?
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Idk, probably the MissingNo. item duplication glitch.

99 rare candies yall.

WastelandCowboy posted...

Idk, probably the MissingNo. item duplication glitch.

Rare candies out the wazoo.

First thing that came to my mind as well.

Does the warp pipe in Mario 1 count as cheating? Because Im pretty sure I did that before I even beat the level the right way.

anything with game genie on regular nintendo

Contra
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Lol, yep warp pipes count as well in mario hehe:)
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What was it, up up, down down, left, right, left, right control, select?

Been too long.
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Not technically cheating but I used the turtle shell exploit for extra lives in Super Mario Bros. Probably the earliest instance I can think of.

There were more than a few games with password systems for saving progress. For some of them, with a little back-of-the-envelope decryption you could create passwords that would never happen in normal gameplay, and you could start with extra items. That became a game to me in its own right.
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probably pokemon gen1 missingo
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The only thing I can think of is accidentally activating blood mode in Mortal Kombat. Not really a cheat though.
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I had a game genie for the snes

Kungfu Kenobi posted...

Not technically cheating but I used the turtle shell exploit for extra lives in Super Mario Bros. Probably the earliest instance I can think of.

This. Otherwise it would be the Konami Code for Contra.
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TMNT 2 on the NES

It was the game based on the arcade one, the stages were extremely long.
I showed my brother and his friend the level select (Konami) code and they grilled me for like a hour to get me to tell them the code
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Probably ether the Konami Code or a code for the N64...

wolfy42 posted...

so you couldn't just look online for cheats etc. It was word of mouth or self discovery.

Or a game magazine. I think they use to have a code section in the back...
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Mead posted...

Contra

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LinkPizza posted...

Probably ether the Konami Code or a code for the N64...

wolfy42 posted...

so you couldn't just look online for cheats etc. It was word of mouth or self discovery.

Or a game magazine. I think they use to have a code section in the back...

This was before game magazines actually, was a TRS80/Apple 2c game.
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wolfy42 posted...

LinkPizza posted...

Probably ether the Konami Code or a code for the N64...

wolfy42 posted...

so you couldn't just look online for cheats etc. It was word of mouth or self discovery.

Or a game magazine. I think they use to have a code section in the back...

This was before game magazines actually, was a TRS80/Apple 2c game.

Idk. You're older than me. I was only born in '89. So, for me, it's like they've always been around...
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Kungfu Kenobi posted...

Not technically cheating but I used the turtle shell exploit for extra lives in Super Mario Bros. Probably the earliest instance I can think of

First thing to come to mind for me as well.

For actual cheat codes, either the Konami code in Contra or the "Justin Bailey" code in Metroid.
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Using a character editor in Diablo II: Lord of Destruction several years ago.
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I had a game genie. That.
I loved that thing.
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Warp pipe in smb1 was probably my first cheat (I don't count that, though)

Next one would probably be all the missingno jazz

I forgot about Game Genie so probably that. I thought this would be more about cheating without cheat codes.
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Cheat codes are certainly cheating lol. Really freaking easy cheating, but cheating.

I never used a game genie myself but knew people who did.
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

probably pokemon gen1 missingo

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Probably figuring out in Gamestar Baseball how to get a swing a miss not count as a strike. Either that or beating Ninja Gaiden (NES) with a Game Genie. Both were around the same time in the late-'80s..

Unless changing the code when typing in a BASIC program from a magazine counts. I figured out what determined how fast my car could go in some text-based racing game in the old 3-2-1 Contact magazine. That would have been in the early-'80s.
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wolfy42 posted...

Cheat codes are certainly cheating lol. Really freaking easy cheating, but cheating.

I never used a game genie myself but knew people who did.

I meant like modern day cheating.
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Cheating... if you're counting finding Easter eggs, then the HSWWSH in Yar's Revenge. If you mean cheating to just get in-game benefits, then I don't know which game it was, but I remember the device was called the Infinity Machine. It was a cartridge you plugged into the Commodore 64, and you were supposed to get different effects depending on certain inputs. It worked, sort of, but not always.

wolfy42 posted...

So...what was your first cheat in a game if you have every used one?

Sonic on the Master System. I used to remember the level select cheat code but don't anymore.
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power rangers on snes

i wanted to play the level where the megazord fought the evil villain
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The Justin Bailey code in Metroid, as well as the stage select code for Ghosts 'n Goblins for NES.
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duping in diablo? You grab a junk item from your inventory on the exact moment you pick up an item, and the junk became it.
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Alex1976 posted...

The Justin Bailey code in Metroid, as well as the stage select code for Ghosts 'n Goblins for NES.

Do stage select codes really count as cheating? I forgot about Ghosts 'n Goblins though. I don't think I ever personally beat that or the one on SNES. The Genesis one was easiest out of them.
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teddy boy up down left right up down left right is stuck in my head even now.
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does using a shiny ditto from japan with perfect stats that was probably hacked to breed pokemon count? if so i cheat like.. a lot.
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1996, when I discovered cheat codes for Dark Forces for the PC. Cheats in a video game was a new concept to me, and a thrilling one at that, so for the next two years I played through all my new games, specifically first-person shooters, with god mode enabled.

I'd weaned myself off of cheat codes by 2000 and I nowadays I don't use them even when I'm in a bind. Though I occasionally experiment with codes/values to see how they affect a game, especially in Skyrim.
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Unlocking some of the characters in Crash Team Racing.
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