Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, rest in peace. Kazuhisa Hashimoto, a producer credited with implementing the fabled “Konami Code” that gave players godlike cheats in Contra, Gradius, ...

If you grew up playing the NES in the ‘80s, the famed “Konami code” is practically part of your DNA. It’s the code that gave players of Konami’s incredibly difficult alien shoot-em-up Contra 30 lives ...

The celebrations will also mark the same anniversary for the NES Gradius, which was the first game to have the code ...