This is “Analog Agent Benjamin” coming at you this week with…. The Game Genie
Man, the Game Genie was the best thing to have if you ever wanted to win at a very hard Nintendo game.
Now I know that some NES games already had game codes in them, but a lot of them did not, and this thing would let you have as many lives as you wanted and to start on any level. And the best part was that they made Game Genies for just about every game system that came out in the 80’s & 90’s (NES, Super NES, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, and Game Gear) The only bad thing I could think about the Game Genie was that it took forever to enter the game codes you wanted to use in the game.
Did you have a Game Genie when you were a kid? What games did you use it on? Did you feel like a dirty rotton cheater?
I had a Game Genie, but I ended up getting it when the NES was on the way out the door, my Mom bought me one used.
I actually didn’t use that too often unless there was a game that was too hard for me to play. I remember at one time that I used it to super jump on Mario Bros. to test the rumored stages behind the flag poles, until to discover an infinite loop that lasted until you died and some where in World 8, a pipe that leads you back to World 1-1.
Something you forgot to mention was the Game Genie actually wasn’t an official Nintendo product. At some point Nintendo had the chance to license it, but instead they sued them.
From what I remember, the courts found in favor of the Game Genie. Because if you were using it with a game you already owned, then you could do whatever you wanted with it and that included using the Game Genie. 😉
The cool thing about the Game Genie isn’t that it can be used as a cheating device, but that it can be used to cause all sorts of mayhem in the program code.
I have the SNES Game Genie. it still works, but I lost the code books…but that’s okay. I have the internet!
Too bad I didn’t have one, it was all trial ‘n error for me.