Introducing... The Talking Poker ARCADE!

[Talking Poker]

I'm reading this, and I recognize it as English, but I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Video Game Speak?

[Robbie Robb]

Yup. There's a famous cheat code for Contra. I *believe* it was for the original NES version. Well the guy's over at Digg.com hid the code in their comments system so that if you enter it in, it will show all the nested comments in a full expanded tree. I'm pretty sure the code is:
up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, a, b, a, b, start

[Zybomb]

Come on man! Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A SELECT Start

[MAYHEM45]

WTF? theres no select in there.

[Zybomb]

That was the code for the NES version at least

[melioris]

damn you TP and your stinking arcade. Just when I thought I was out, you pull me back in.

[Talking Poker]

Wooooooohooooooo! Success!

Wait til you guys see all the fun games I've got lined up for us. I don't want to overwhelm anyone, so I'll probably only release a couple at a time every so often.

And they aren't all those old school Atari/Nintendo games either. We can also do more recent popular flash games, like the Penguin Baseball one (where the Yetti smacks him as far as he can), the Ping Pong Bouncing one, etc, etc. Hell, I even found a typing test for us to compete on.

P.S. Nice avatar, Zy. FINALLY.

[Dodoubled]

The SELECT button was used if it was a two-player game. Otherwise, the code was up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start.

It wasn't just for Contra, either. It worked with several Konami games, most notably, Lifeforce. And I think a similar code worked for Super C, or whatever the sequel to Contra was.