Kazuhisa Hashimoto , the video secret plan developer responsible for pee video recording games a little easier on player of the 1980s , has died at age 79 . ( Somereports , however , locate his old age at 61 . ) The tidings comes from video secret plan manufacturing business Konami , which post about his death onTwitterWednesday dayspring .
Hashimotocreatedthe “ Konami Code , ” a push - pressing sequence on the Nintendo Entertainment System control , that granted user advantages in games likeContra . The sequence ( up , up , down , down , left , right , left , right , B , A , start ) was to begin with put in the 1986 NES larboard of the colonnade gameGradius , because Hashimoto realize the difficulty level was high , and he need a path to make it easy to play through to match for bugs during testing . The code give the drug user a full cache of weapon .
No one bothered to take the codification out of the biz when it ship , and Christian Bible finally leaked that the succession could make playing through it easier . The computer code later on show up in other games , most notably 1988 ’s NES acquittance ofContra , where it give players 30 extra lives . Hashimoto said he used the sequence because it would be almost impossible to input it by fortuity while handling the controller .
Hashimoto joined Konami in the former 1980s and worked on circuit plug-in for coin - operated game . When he began developing game , like 1984’sTrack and Field , he was prone to inclose Easter eggs . InTrack and Field , a player tossing a javelin too high might get word they ’ve hit a passing UFO .
The Konami Code has entered tonic polish in a major means , appearingeverywhere from other games to movies like 2012’sWreck - It Ralph .
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