The Konami code, cheats for Sims, glitches for Skyrim, etc. How did these get found out by their gaming communities?
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As kids in the 70’s/80’s we learned tricks for coin op arcade games. Pre phones/pre internet these tricks were widely known and shared. I can still remember some. In Space Invaders if you fired 27 shots without hitting anything the ufo would appear and you scored 300. Each ufo from then on would be 300.
In Galaga if you let the last eagle thing roll through the screen a set number of times on level 1 and then shot it the aliens would not fire at you for the rest of the game.
There was one for space chaser where you could lock at 45 degrees in a corner and the chasers would go right through you.
In Donkey Kong you could complete levels by a precise jump off the screen.
All shared by word of mouth or watching people play for hours.
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