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Game Genie is a line of video game cheat cartridges originally designed by Codemasters, sold by Camerica and Galoob.The first device in the series was released in 1990 [1] for the Nintendo Entertainment System, with subsequent devices released for the Super NES, Game Boy, Genesis, and Game Gear.
The Konami Code was created by Kazuhisa Hashimoto, who was developing the home port of the 1985 arcade game Gradius for the NES. Finding the game too difficult to play through during testing, he created the cheat code, which gives the player a full set of power-ups (normally attained gradually throughout the game). [2]
While Nintendo was successful to prevent reverse engineering of the lockout chip in the case Atari Games Corp. v. Nintendo of America Inc., they failed to prevent devices like Game Genie from being used to provide cheat codes for players in the case Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc..
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link [a] is an action role-playing game developed and published by Nintendo.It is the second installment in the Legend of Zelda series and was released in Japan for the Famicom Disk System on January 14, 1987—less than one year after the Japanese release and seven months before the North American release of the original The Legend of Zelda.
Cheating in video games involves a video game player using various methods to create an advantage beyond normal gameplay, usually in order to make the game easier.Cheats may be activated from within the game itself (a cheat code implemented by the original game developers), or created by third-party software (a game trainer or debugger) or hardware (a cheat cartridge).
The Action Replay is available for many gaming systems including the Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and the Xbox. The name is derived from the first devices’ signature ability to pause the execution of the software and save the computer's state (the complete contents ...
Game Genie: Cheat code adapter for NES cartridges. Normally only works on the NES-001 (front loading) control decks. Codemasters: Game Genie NES-101 Adaptor A special adaptor that (when attached) allows the Game Genie to have compatibility with the NES-101. It was primarily given away for free to all Game Genie owners, but only if they made a ...
The Legend of Zelda 2: Link no Bōken: Nintendo R&D4: Nintendo: January 14, 1987: Released in 1988 as a cartridge for the NES as Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. Lutter: Athena: Athena November 24, 1989: Disk Writer exclusive. Magma Project Hacker: Bits Laboratory Tokuma Shoten: August 10, 1989: Mahjong: Nintendo R&D2: Nintendo: February 21, 1986