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June 12, 2008
Google Reader utilizes Konami Code
This is sick beyond all hope; and great in many, many ways. The well know Konami Code is at Google Reader (http://www.google.com/reader). Some Google Coder throw a little easter egg right on the Google Reader sidebar; just use the Konami Code to access the screenshot you see on this post sidebar; it’s amazingly cool to have something like this at Google Reader.
Just do the following while you are at Google Reader’s Home Page (that’s, http://www.google.com/reader): press up up, down down, left, right, left, right, B and then press A. You will see how your sidebar now changes! some users have reported a little sound, but I didn’t heard anything. To shut if off, just repeat the Konami Code again and you will be free. This kind of things are just what the web needs, I will be contributing to this on 15tags and the new project management system we are cooking at EmaStudios; will have a good bunch of easter eggs.
In case you are wondering what the heck is the Konami Code:
The Konami Code, known in Japan as the Konami Command (コナミコマンド Konami Komando?), is a cheat code thats appears in many Konami video games.[1] The code also appears in some non-Konami games.[2] The code was first used in the 1986 release of Gradius for the Nintendo Entertainment System [3] but was made famous in North America in the NES version of Contra
Another cute thing about this easter egg is the number of unread articles for every site on your list, which is automatically changed to thirty (30). If this reference is lost on you, a player is given thirty lives upon entering the code in the original Contra, which helps a lot.
UPDATE: thanks for the head’s up CaptionMachine! I really screwed it up before with the Konami Code ;)
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