Sunday morning geek fest playing with Konami code

Author: Keith

7 Jun

Browsing facebook last night I came across a friends status which mentioned she was playing with Konami Code so I made a comment about the geekiness of it and she revealed that facebook has hidden an “easter egg” on the site which can be accessed using said code.

Suitably impressed I had a little dig round google and found a number of other sites which have there own hidden easter eggs, the most impressive being http://paulirish.com/2009/cornify-easter-egg-with-jquery/

Anyway this morning when I woke up I was still thinking about Konami Code and wondered if there was a wordpress plugin so I could try it for myself (cant be arsed with hard coding anymore), well I was in luck I found this little gem Konami Easter Egg so there is now a hidden message on this site.

Type in up,up,down,down,left,right,left,right,b,a then hit [Enter]

The affiliate in me cant help thinking this could be used for business, what do you reckon?

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3 Responses for "Sunday morning geek fest playing with Konami code"

Elise June 7th, 2009 at 10:48 am 1
Glad you had fun Keith! Just goes to show I will really do anything instead of revision. I got solar flares on FB – but the unicorns are the best – thats some pretty trippy s***. My favourite was the twinkly gold one …
David Fiske (5 comments.) June 7th, 2009 at 11:37 am 2
Perhaps an affiliate use if it were activated with less key strokes. An exclusive discount banner? A freebie?

Perhaps scope to make it viral if the result was worth it.
Pete (1 comments.) June 12th, 2009 at 12:28 pm 3
As I remember that’s a cheat on the megadrive version of Sonice the Hedgehog, oh and a song by that Ataris too.

Nice post, very interesting stuff