All your favourite sites are belong to Konami!

22 Dec

Forget about the ‘Da Vinci Code‘, the Konami code is more deeply rooted in geek culture than ‘Treebeard” is in “Fangorn Forest“.

Created by Kazuhisa Hashimoto it first appeared in 1996 in the popular title, “Gradius“. The Konami Code or the Konami Command as it’s known as in Japan is a sequence of button-presses that would trigger a cheat in many NES games though it appeared in just as many, if not more non-Nintendo releases too.

The sequence (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A) has become so synonymous with popular culture that many websites have integrated it silently into their code. Sites like Facebook, Digg, and Google Reader all have little surprises waiting for you when you tap in this secret code.

So, how many can you find? P.S – Ryu rocks!

For a full list try these great sites:
Konami Code Sites
List of Konami code websites