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Hollow Knight: Silksong isn't an easy game, but that difficulty is one of the reasons why fans love it. There are likely some ...

If you grew up playing the NES in the ‘80s, the famed “Konami code” is practically part of your DNA. It’s the code that gave players of Konami’s incredibly difficult alien shoot-em-up Contra 30 lives ...

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, rest in peace. Kazuhisa Hashimoto, a producer credited with implementing the fabled “Konami Code” that gave players godlike cheats in Contra, Gradius, ...

After all, the first Contra is where a lot of fans got introduced to the series, and has become one of the staples from the NES era, mainly due to its classic “Up Up Down Down” code, as well as its ...

Kazuhisa Hashimoto, inventor of the most famous video game code of all time, the Konami Code, has died at the age of 79. In honor of the former Konami producer and the famous code he left all of us, ...

The Konami Code is all over pop culture as a key video game reference. Seemingly everyone remembers it...even those who probably never played Contra. While this is probably the most memorable code (it ...

Contra is making a return after a successful run more than 25 years ago in arcades and on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Contra: Evolution is the first official mobile version of the platform ...