Post 643830 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
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(DIR) Post #643633 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2018-10-19T20:34:56Z
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the cheat code to win a game in Empire Earth was "somebody set up us the bomb"when I first played the game I didn't realise it was a reference to a meme, just a weird cheat codehttps://ca.ign.com/wikis/pc-cheats/Empire_Earth_Cheatshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_usalso whoever wrote the cheat codes for Empire Earth didn't like the food in Boston very much"1,000 More Food: boston food sucks"#gameing | #gaming
(DIR) Post #643634 by thegibson@hackers.town
2018-10-19T20:35:31Z
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@staticsafe Stay off my lawn.
(DIR) Post #643829 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2018-10-19T20:38:09Z
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oh a connection, Empire Earth was developed by Stainless Steel Studios which was based in Cambridge, Massachusettshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stainless_Steel_Studios#gameing | #gaming
(DIR) Post #643830 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2018-10-19T20:44:20Z
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I think the concept of cheat codes in single player games started falling out of fashion around the time of release of GTA 5 which had cheat codes but they were extremely minimal compare to what went on in GTA San Andreas, playing the older GTA games to me was always about fucking around a lot with all the available cheat codeslike the one in San Andreas that would let boats fly which is absurd but so much fun#gameing | #gaming
(DIR) Post #643831 by impiaaa@dev.glitch.social
2018-10-19T20:48:55Z
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@staticsafe there's an askagamedev post about this, but the reason cheat codes existed was to test the game, since compile times (plus reflash ROM/rewrite CD) were long and debuggers weren't good/didn't exist. once games on HDD were common and debuggers were good (~6th-7th gen), cheat codes just weren't needed anymore.
(DIR) Post #643837 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2018-10-19T20:49:24Z
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@impiaaa oh I didn't know that! that makes sense
(DIR) Post #644065 by impiaaa@dev.glitch.social
2018-10-19T21:00:31Z
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@staticsafe (the post http://askagamedev.tumblr.com/post/160698123560/are-cheat-codes-no-longer-in-games-because-people )