Gamers long for old-style cheat codes in their games.
Gamers lament missing cheat codes in video games and hope that they may return in future releases.
Prior to YouTube and other video sharing websites becoming so prevalent today, players who were having difficulty with video games couldn’t turn quickly and easily to online resources such as walkthroughs or tutorials for help with playing them.
If you wanted to advance, either talk with friends at school who also played this game about ways of defeating it, or search for cheat codes online.
Cheat codes could often be found within instruction books that came with games, gaming magazines and hardware add-ons like Game Genies. Nintendo even offered helplines should any level or boss prove too challenging for you to conquer.
Although cheats could help make games simpler, others were simply absurd – such as those found on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas cheat pages which offered outrageous weapons or vehicles or altered NPC behavior in interesting ways.
Sad to say, but mods seem to be slowly dying off due to all games now having difficulty settings and mods acting as ways of augmenting content found within new or older releases.
As is evident on Reddit, gamers miss secret button input codes or “finding secrets within games to unlock them”.
Commenters offered various explanations as to why cheats have slowly vanished from recent releases, mostly owing to their lessening importance and usage.
“Cheat codes were originally implemented to make development and play testing simpler; however, now that games feature achievements, DLC, and microtransactions the developer console remains disabled.”
“Back when I was growing up they sold game magazines with cheat codes for various games.
Fan-created mods, microtransactions and achievements had caused them to decline significantly over the years.”
Regretfully, cheats seem to be disappearing quickly from GoldenEye 007 games; but we still have DK Mode available as an escape route.
