{"id":5541,"date":"2021-04-23T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/23\/the-konami-code-turns-35-with-a-special-album-of-lo-fi-gradius-tracks\/"},"modified":"2021-04-23T15:31:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T19:31:26","slug":"the-konami-code-turns-35-with-a-special-album-of-lo-fi-gradius-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/23\/the-konami-code-turns-35-with-a-special-album-of-lo-fi-gradius-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Konami Code Turns 35 With A Special Album Of Lo-Fi Gradius Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\"\/>\n<p>We have had lots of thirty fifth Anniversaries this yr, together with the Mario celebrations and the Zelda&#8230; non-celebrations, and this weekend \u2014 particularly, the twenty fifth April, 2021 \u2014 is the birthday of the <strong>Konami Code<\/strong>, maybe essentially the most well-known sequence of buttons in historical past (not that there is a lot competitors for that title).<\/p>\n<p>For the thirty fifth anniversary of the code (and Gradius, the sport it got here from), Konami has launched a bunch of remixed &#8220;lo-fi&#8221; Gradius tracks, full with a candy little animation of an area pilot enjoying the sport.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"\/>\n<p>The Konami Code got here packaged in Gradius upon its launch in 1986. Gamers might press <strong>UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A<\/strong> and entry virtually all of the powerups within the sport. Nevertheless, many Western gamers did not get to know the Konami Code intimately till it popped up in Contra on the NES, in 1987, the place inputting the proper collection of button-presses would get you 30 additional lives.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 900 86\" width=\"900\" height=\"86\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0acd4419e9b32\/002.900x.jpg\" alt=\"002\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Since then, this little trick has been hidden in additional than simply video games \u2014 you&#8217;ll find it on web sites, in TV reveals, tune lyrics, and even youngsters&#8217;s toys.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the creator of the code, Kazuhisa Hashimoto, died early final yr \u2014 however his legacy lives on in a era of people that can bear in mind the Konami Code higher than their very own cellphone numbers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"92baa66390a23daba809aeab-text\/javascript\">dgpConsent.can('targeting',function () { !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init', '2325732614399478'); fbq('track', 'PageView'); });<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/04\/the_konami_code_turns_35_with_a_special_album_of_lo-fi_gradius_tracks\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] We have had lots of thirty fifth Anniversaries this yr, together with the Mario celebrations and the Zelda&#8230; non-celebrations, and this weekend \u2014 particularly, the twenty fifth April, 2021 \u2014 is the birthday of the Konami Code, maybe essentially the most well-known sequence of buttons in historical past (not that there is a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1942,83,4430,3573,4429,2984,4431,3556],"class_list":["post-5541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-news","tag-album","tag-code","tag-gradius","tag-konami","tag-lofi","tag-special","tag-tracks","tag-turns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5542,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions\/5542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}