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Two old school remembrances involving that beloved code.
I played a good bit of NES with my good childhood friend and most of the time his younger brother was there as well and we had to let him take turns playing or else the system got shut down by parents, so we let him play. We got Contra and my friend and I were getting decent at the game, it was still hard but you eventually learn the enemy patterns and start making it farther and farther in the game. That is unless his brother was playing... then it was the very much the stereotypical, "STOP DYING! You're stealing my lives!" Yep, even with 30 lives, it wasn't long until your precious life supply started getting eaten up by this "burden" we had to let play. In retrospect I feel a bit bad for him, because we were sure mean, doing everything we could to not let him play but still keep the NES on, elaborate "continues" and "do-overs" all the while telling parents that he was indeed up next to play.
The other game was Ikari Warriors. I think it was the first one, I can't really remember now, I know we borrowed it from another friend for the weekend so my buddy and I sit down to play it, and because we had the all powerful code, we could continue as much as we wanted - so long as we got the code off in time. We got ... well into the game, I don't know how far, but it was a brutal and long game and we weren't that good really and got kinda sloppy since we had unlimited continues so we were just trudging through. Eventually, after a continue, I come back but I can't shoot anymore. I find out I can walk through enemies, bullets, and most terrain but I just can't interact with it at all. We're slowed down since then it's only my buddy playing, but we realize we never have to continue again since I will never die! We keep going and I'm just kinda running circles around everything making fun of my buddy, complaining about how long it's taking him to kill everything. It's not that much later that we get to the end of this level, there's a gate at the top of the screen, and waves of baddies. While he's killing these baddies, my buddy dies next to a jeep or tank or something, and he respawns IN the stupid vehicle. He's now stuck.
So we've got me, who can move around, but who can't kill anything or interact with anything, and my buddy who can't move, but can interact with things and shoot. I can't open the gate to get to the next level and he can't get to it.
We turned the NES off and that was the one and only time we played Ikari Warriors.
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