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permalink Up Up, Down Down, Left Right, Left Right, B A, Start - do you know what this means? Hint: rad game from 1988… …Ahhhhhhhhhhh…Contra! It’s funny how this little code is burnt into our brains - well some of ours. What’s even funnier is how this little code has created a culture of it’s very own. Is there a ‘Culture of the Contra Code’? Aside from getting 30 lives on Contra, you can use this code in some interesting places - starting with… Konamicodesites.com ESPN.com Google Reader Facebook Digg Mint Uncrate ToxicFlashGames AOL Mail On Palm WebOS devices - like the Palm Pre And the list goes on…and on. If the code lives online…I wonder if it also lives somewhere offline?

Up Up, Down Down, Left Right, Left Right, B A, Start - do you know what this means? Hint: rad game from 1988…

…Ahhhhhhhhhhh…Contra!

It’s funny how this little code is burnt into our brains - well some of ours. What’s even funnier is how this little code has created a culture of it’s very own. Is there a ‘Culture of the Contra Code’?

Aside from getting 30 lives on Contra, you can use this code in some interesting places - starting with…
Konamicodesites.com
ESPN.com
Google Reader
Facebook
Digg
Mint
Uncrate
ToxicFlashGames
AOL Mail
On Palm WebOS devices - like the Palm Pre

And the list goes on…and on.

If the code lives online…I wonder if it also lives somewhere offline?

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