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The producer credited with creating the most famous and memorized cheat in video game history, "the Konami Code," has died.Kazuhisa Hashimoto, the producer credited with creating the most famous and memorized cheat in video game history, has died at the age of 61.
Video game maker Konami confirmed the death of Hashimoto, who entered the “Konami Code” command – “” – into both the video game and pop culture lexicon. “We are saddened to hear about the passing of Kazuhisa Hashimoto, a deeply talented producer who first introduced the world to the ‘Konami Code,’” KonamiCreated by Hashimoto as a backdoor to assist testers on Konami’s exceedingly difficult 1985 arcade game— “I hadn’t played that much and obviously couldn’t beat it myself, so I put in the Konami code,” he said of, “because I was the one who was going to be using it, I made sure it was easy to remember”...
“The Konami Code” became a secret staple of the company’s output and an indispensable cheat code for an entire generation of gamers who grew up on titles like
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