7 Cheat Codes That Changed Our Lives Forever 

"motherlode" is the cheat code I have remembered my whole life. My aunt taught it to me when I played Sims 2 while visiting her, before I could read. Now her daughter is 8 and playing Sims 4, and I taught the very same cheat to her.

"Whoever said cheaters never prosper probably never played video games" No truer words have ever been spoken.

AoE2: "How do you turn this on", Because a medieval cavalry charge is simply better when led by 30 sport cars armed with machine guns

Cheats add another layer of fun to the game, adding more to replayability.

Jane: Has a degree in Physics Also Jane: Can't remember the multiplication table Truly a pioneer of science.

Let's face it, the Konami Code is the Wilhelm Scream of the gaming industry

I tried using cheat codes irl for exams, it required writing a huge amount of numbers and letters in specific order in the blank spaces known as "answer spaces" or as I like to call them "cheat code capsules". I spent hours every day reviewing all the cheat lists known as reference sheets and mysterious objects of cheaty goodness known as text books. Anyway, that is the story of how I qualified as a Doctor.

“Could run faster than the speed of sound and still couldn’t outrun death” Possibly the darkest statement I’ve ever heard in reference to sonic the hedgehog 😂

Jane getting through her degree in Physics without knowing her multiplication tables is proof that there are cheat codes for real life, and Jane has found them. I, for one, welcome our new Overlord.

Gta San Andreas cheat codes ,me and my cousin had them printed on paper ,we never completed that game,we just kept screwing around with cheat codes

Beating Contra without the code remains one of my highest gaming achievements. Extra lives came in at a decent clip in the latter half of the game, but it was still wickedly hard.

Little Timmy: "I never used the money cheat in Sims" Jane: "yes you did little Timmy"

I remember first time I pressed up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A. You should have seen how confused people were in the elevator.

You guys should totally do 7 worst cheat codes next

I remember doing the money cheat in the original Sim City (or at least the Macintosh version): FUND. Abuse it too much, and your city would get hit by an earthquake.

You missed the best part of the enemy rockets cheat in GoldenEye - the npcs blowing each other up! I always found that hilarious, although the levels where you had to escort Natalya became exceedingly tedious. Also, no mention of the money cheat in Caesar 3? That’s the only way I’d play that game lol

What about that one cheat code from Shovel Knight? It didn't affect gameplay, but it replaced certain words with "butt" and made the dialogue absolutely hilarious in an extremely childish way.

I heard that if you typed in the Konami Code in Metal Gear Survive, P.T. actually gets released, the son of my father's uncle's nephew's son, who also works at Konami, told me I swear.

If I remember correctly, entering IDDQD while playing Heretic would have the opposite effect, with the game berating you for cheating before killing you. Pretty sure there was cheat to turn you into a chicken as well, with minimal health and only your beak as a weapon.

I had to play Doom multiple times when I was younger because my baby cousin absolutely loved it. He could only press certain buttons so I had to press the other ones on pc. I still remember all the cheat codes that I used regularly, not just god mode. They're stuck in my head forever -.-

After all the buffs the Konami code gave you, I was most insulted by its appearance in Bioshock Infinite, where, instead of helping you with more lives, or upgrades, it instead unlocked 1999 mode, AKA, the game’s hardest difficulty.

Remember the riot cheat for GTA SAN Andreas? It made all the pedestrians go insane!

You should have just said "All Goldeneye cheats." Cause there was like 30 of them. Like Invisibility. How do you forget that one?

I honestly did not know the konami code, which I've known for 20 some years now, was applicable in Contra! WTF I tried and tried as a kid to beat that game, to no success. 30 lives though! Man I cannot believe that slipped past my younger self. Constantly writing cheat codes from the library compjter onto a piece of paper, owning a subscription to my favorite magazine ever, Tips and Tricks (the only magazine to ever print my name!) Yet never realized Contra could actually be beatable. Thank you Outside Extra/Xbox! Love your channel :)

My favorite kind of cheat is noclip. Being able to explore outside the map and discover secrets is so much better when it doesn’t involve jumping at the corner of a room for five to ten minutes.

Jedi Outcast for the GameCube took up so much space on the memory card, I feel like the developers knew how annoying it would be to keep the saves, so they added cheat codes to 100% the game and unlock everything for multiplayer. It also has one of the most bizarre sounds for when the cheat codes are entered. No one is expecting a "YEEEE HAAAAA!" in a Star Wars game.

I like the idea of making bad cheat codes similar to good cheat codes. "Oh, you wanted all the weapons? Well, you put in the wrong code so now your character dies."

Mike: limitless free time as a child Homework: am I a joke to you?

00:28 Contra (The Konami Code) --- Mike 02:48 Sonic the Hedgehog (Level Select) --- Jane 04:45 Doom 1 & 2 (God Mode) --- Andy 06:57 The Sims (Money cheat) --- Jane 08:49 NBA Jam (Big Head mode) --- Andy 10:22 Tomb Raider games (Exploding Lara) --- Jane 12:15-14:20 Golden Eye 007 (Enemy rockets) --- Mike

02:08 as a Canadian I always suspected that my country was run by nerds, but after testing that this worked I am now certain.

'while you were away doing the macarena or collecting pogs' xD ahhh the 90's. Pogs were the shit :P

“A cheat actually making the game harder” *Immediately shows enemy killing teammate *

I wish my life had a money cheat.

4:41 Jane has a point and it’s sad

I just turned 40 this weekend, and would just like to say, this was the most nostalgic 15 minutes of my life in recent times... Thanks for some amazing gaming moments and awesome songs stuck in my head, OX-team... much love from Switzerland.

I really thought Mike was gonna have "How do you turn this on?" Age of Empires 2, anyone?

Did you deliberately make Goldeneye the 007th segment of the list?

Bioshock Infinite, though not a Konami game, featured their signature cheat code. It unlocked 1999, which took you straight back to a time where you couldn't beat any games ever until you "git gud".

I remember playing the original Sims as a kid and keeping my nose to the grindstone with the Goth family having them work up the promotion ladder of their respective careers and saving up funds just so I could move into the second largest house in the starter neighborhood. When I finally got there I was so excited I actually called up my friend just to let him know of my success. His response was an unimpressed “So what? I’ve got sims in the biggest house in the game - because I used cheats.” He then explained to me how to enter the the appropriate cheat code into the game and within the hour the surviving Goth’s were millionaires and I had learned a vaulable lesson about working hard and staying on the straight and narrow.

I’m partial to the LEGO video games’ cheats. From the useful Stud x10, Invincibility, or Fast Force/Build/Interaction to the hilarious Helium Mode, Disguise Mode, or Daisy Chain, I love the different cheats the games have had. Some of them, along with some characters and vehicles, could even be unlocked, without paying a stud, by entering Cheat Codes, while others had to be unlocked by finding the corresponding Red/Pink Brick and then purchasing them with studs. I really loved the games where you could unlock all the Stud Multiplier cheats, as well as Stud Magnet, using codes, making getting True Jedi or whatever a snap, as well as making it quick and easy to get enough studs to unlock every other cheat, character, and vehicle in the game.

I fondly remember using the money cheat in Zoo Tycoon. Shift-4 would give you a load of cash, at the cost of ruining your fences. I rationalized it as taking loans from the mob that I'd heard about somewhere, then not paying them back. ...It took _way_ too long for me to realize that "shift-4" was the money cheat for a good reason.

If you do the Konami code on VOGUE's UK website, velociraptors wearing some snazzy clothing appear

I love the fluidity of this episode! Nice job.

Big head mode really hit its stride in shooters like Unreal Tournament, where you became easier to headshot the longer your killstreak went on.

The first Pokemon games had a legit cheat where you talk to an old man, fly to an island, surf up and down a coast, and get the item in a certain slot of your inventory multiplied by running into a horrifically disfigured monster... Wow, that sounds ridiculous when you lay it all out like that.

Back then cheat codes were just pushing buttons but today is with your hard earn money called "Micro-transactions" (Honestly should just stay in mobile gaming). Still at least some cheat codes exist today with restricting you achievements/trophies but still glad are here now.

My first exposure to cheat codes were the ones for Warcraft II a lot of which I didn't realize were references to cheats on this list! One of my favourites though was "I am a medieval man" which changed the music. That's it. But that tune was bopping!

What about the infinity rare candy cheat for Pokémon Red & Blue? It was the only time so actually became a Pokémon Master

*Bank of Canada*. That is actually kinda really cool in a dorky and financially responsible way.

"Professionals kit" and "rocketman" in GTA San Andreas, go on rampage with flamethrower and jetpack. Ah good times.

I heard that in early consoles where you couldn't save your progress, game developers put these codes in so they could test the game more easily.

I can't believe no one even thought to mention (imo) one of the BEST cheats ever - bewareoblivionisathand for Turok 2 - unlocking the entire cheat menu - giving you the ability to just toggle each one on or off at you discretion.

You cant mention sims money cheats without mentioning the original rosebud chest in which the amount of colons and semi colons you entered increased how much money you got at once. I distinctly remember spamming those buttons until my fingers hurt...

I've never used the Sims money cheat... ...Because I've never played the Sims

"Your character's pupils turning white, just like God's, when he's playing Doom, I imagine." -Andy Farrant, 2019

The jack and daxter 3 developer cheat code was found recently. Gives access to everything as well as free camera movement. Pretty lit

I told my Dad about cheat codes while playing GTA Vice City. He legit got mad and told me to stop cheating...in freaking GTA!!!! I aint really gonna buy guns from a gun store, am i? I got a lecture all right. Haven't cheated since. Made me videogame masochist. Praise the sun🙌

My favorite thing you can do with the Konami code is type it on the British Vogue website. Because velociraptor.

I had SFII on SNES for a little while before I found out about the same character code, Down, R, Up, L, Y, B. I used that one so often it felt like a combo I was doing on the Capcom logo.

6:46 A reference to 'Rise of the Triad'?? Now I know why I subscribed👍😆

If she doesn’t know the Konami Code, she’s too young for you

I miss those old school cheat codes!

No mention of the San Andreas jetpack cheat. C'mon son.

one of my forever favorite cheat codes was on the PS1 Spiderman game. In order to unlock everything you just enter "EELNATS" into the code thing. But what made it my favorite thing was when young-me realized that it was Stan Lee's name backwards. :')

For me, I first found out cheat codes were a thing when I played GTA Vice City for the first time. And the first cheat that I learned was PANZER, which summoned a goddamn TANK. Really made evading a Six Star death sentence a breeze.

Enter the Matrix's cheat system was insanely in depth. You basically hacked the game with a built in DOS window.

The "item _____" cheat in Subnautica was the only way I could get any resources after I got all the copper and titanium the game seems to offer. I think it definitely deserves to be on this list

I think goldeneye had some of the best cheats ever. Loved the big head mode with enemy rockets and made the enemies super fast. It was fun without the rocket mode too. They couldnt even get more than one shot half of the time cause they moved too fast! Lmao good times

I would have thought Infinite Ammo would've been a given for this list. I'm disappointed. This was not only a cheat for a number of games, but it was a bonus for games like Resident Evil.

So In this video Jane admitted to not knowing multiplication tables, wetting herself on a daily basis, and having repressed memories from childhood. It makes me wonder what else we don’t know about all of you...

Wait, I thought the Konami Code had "select, start" at the end of it. I know some people say it does; even in the examples they give (Deftones song) it says select, start in it. I've always been so confused on this. Did the Konami Code originally NOT have that in it and it was added at some point, or are some people just wrong about the code?

I still remember the cheat codes "bigdaddy" and "pepperoni pizza" for Age of Empires. And "cheezy towers" and "grow up" for Majesty.

What, no mention of the force ghosts from Lego Star Wars 2? They were some of the most OP characters in the game, easily unlockable with a few button presses.

Multiplication tables. Bah! Who needs 'em? By the year 2000, someone will have invented a portable, nigh-instantaneous adding machine, anyway. Mark my words!

I'm proud to say that I played Sims 3 for 7 Generations (meaning my starter-sim not counted 7 sims were raised and died) before realizing that this cheat was a possibility. If I remember correctly "motherlode" was the first cheat I ever used in ANY game.

For Sonic 2, I will always remember that since from when I had the game as a small kid, the intro tune can be sung along with the cheat code: "Up, Down then Left ,Right , A plus Start Together" haha

Something something Konami code

My favourite cheat code is in EVERY GAME EVER! ALT + F4 for extreme fun!

I still remember the money cheat for Theme Hospital, that had you enter numbers on a fax machine. Also, every GTA III engine games i ever played, i ended up using the "All the weapons" cheats on, because using a minigun to take out police 'copters is just too much fun.

Motherlode is just common sense at this point😂😂

Ahh, good ol' IDSPISPOPD. A code indelible in my mind. As were the walls after using it.

14:20 So Dr. Sam Beckett's true mission was to add a bunch of cheats into video games? Someone probably should have told him that, he would've leaped home in time for tea

3:21 and though Sonic could run faster than sound itself he couldn’t outrun death......I laughed way harder than I should have 😂😂😂

Ahh the sims money cheat! In Sims 1 it was Rosebud that got you 1,000 simoleons. Also, when I was young I would play a lot of GTA: Vice City, and there was a cheat to make cars float on water (I'd use this to get to other areas of the map bc I would rather drive around than play the story at the time) and also a cheat to make it forever rainy. There were a lot of cheats for that game. Me and my brother had the whole list written down

I mean when it comes to cheat codes, every Lego game ever

God that damn exploding Lara I did it by accident for weapons and kaboom Lara limbs everywhere. Still recovering.

Ah yes, iddqd was the first code that came to my mind, largely because I still use it to this day, thanks to all the excellent and EXTREMELY DIFFICULT map packs that are regularly released for old-school Doom. I actually have a minor obsession with finding the secret levels in every MegaWAD (32 level map packs) and I usually do so with god mode enabled. For me it's more about exploration than combat. Up, Down, Left, Right, Hold A and Press Start was the second one that came to mind, but actually if we're talking about Sonic games, I might have put the code from Sonic 2 where you had to play sounds from the sound test in a numerical order that turned out to be the release date of the actual game. I can't actually remember what the code was (it started with 1,9,9,2 I think) but the cleverness of it blew my tiny young mind at the time.

Age of Empires II, "how do you turn this on". :-D

Ironically it's usually adults who actually pull off the impressive feats that you were unable to accomplish as a kid.

Who remembers Game Geni? Sure made Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past much easier

Jane: The past is weird. 2019: Hold my beer

Wow. A Simulacra and Simulation reference. Well done, Jane. 🤘🏽

Leebron James, favorite player. x''D

UFO: Enemy Unknown, the money cheat; which itself required a Hackers style file system hack to enable, was also a bit pointless as the game still remained impossible to complete... but at least I went on to become a computer programmer, life changed.

Found thou randomly, enjoyed, liked and sub,

“...And thought sonic could run faster than sound itself, he couldn’t outrun death” I think that could apply to the whole series

For me it was Age of Empires: Woodstock, Quarry... and E=MC2 that gave you a nuclear missile-launcher trooper who could crossmap

Cheats in the past: Up up down down left right left right b a Cheats now: Pay 19.99 to get a chance to get an unlocked weapon.

Kudos on the Deftones reference I love you guys

Now I loved the code in Spyro that gave you 99 lives I do believe it was similar to the Konami Code but I’m not sure but my favorite has to go to Mortal Kombat Trilogy that when the code is put in would allow you do do every characters every one of their “alitys” with the push of a single button. Every finishing move from simple fatalities, brutalities, even animalities and babalities, each was assigned to specific button like brutality if memory serves me right was the triangle button. Brutality was especially a pain in the ass to learn since it was hitting so many buttons in a specific order and not just any number in any order. The cheat allowed you to do these finishing moves with ease and I have to admit that after a while, I began to feel guilty about using the cheat in the first place no matter how awesome it was. If given the chance I of course would use it again I mean let’s be serious here. 😋