The Konami Code—up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start—does wonderful things to games like Gradius and Contra. But it also does unexpected ...

The Konami Code originated with the late Kazuhisa Hashimoto, the developer of the NES port of Gradius, released in 1986. While playing and testing the game, he found it to be too difficult, and if you ...

Malcolm loves games. Be they trading card games like Magic: the Gathering or Yu-Gi-Oh, or tabletop wargames like Heroscape and Warhammer 40K, Malcolm's got a firm passion for all things interactive.

TL;DR: Metal Gear Solid 4 remains exclusive to PS3 due to its complex, unorthodox code designed for the PS3's Cell processor, making a remake or port challenging. Konami's costly development ...