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What’s the magic word? Learn about the original cheat code
Teleport to the 70’s to learn about the original cheat code. Although most of us learn ...
Brain training: The Greatest Game Boy Puzzle Games
Puzzle games and the Game Boy go hand in hand. With its small screen and – how to put t...
The Konami Code: How a string of button presses unleashed a tidal wave of cheat codes
At Bitmap Books, we like to think we are cataloguing the very best of video games histo...
The unofficial MD/GEN: a visual compendium
Avid followers of our books will be aware that there appears to be a level of mystery a...
Hurt Me Plenty – the rise of God Mode
The developers of DOOM broke new ground in making it simple for players to cheat. Other games either didn’t include cheats at all or required you to wait until a certain point to enter them, such as the “magic word” Xyzzy in the text game Colossal Cave Adventure.
