History Main / KonamiCode

* Inputting the Konami Code on any story or chapter on ''Website/FimfictionDotNet'' summons an interactive Rainbow Dash who follows the cursor.

* Wrestling/XavierWoods' video-game-and-other-geekdom Website/YouTube channel is named {{WebVideo/UpUpDownDown}} obvious homage to the code.

** Oddly enough, not many of the ''Contra'' sequels feature the code except for ''VideoGame/ContraShatteredSoldier'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 (the others use different cheat codes). For the code to work in ''Shattered Soldier'', the player must input the code using the second controller and substitute the left and the right on the d-pad with each successive L and R button (L1, R1, L2, R2, L3, and R3). Of course, all this does is make it really easy to get the worst ending.

** Enter it on the title screen in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' (with Circle and X substituing for B and A; Circle and X are the Western UsefulNotes/PlayStation game menu equivalents of B and A) to unlock Very Hard and [[HarderThanHard Revengeance]] difficulty levels without beating the game on lower difficulty levels first. In the PC version, entering the code also immediately unlocks the Jetstream, Bladewolf and VR missions, and all codecs and cutscenes.

** On the ''Castlevania Requiem'' CompilationRerelease, inputting the code on the title screen lets you access the ''Akumajo Dracula Peke'' minigame from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood''[[note]]Originally a creative error message EasterEgg accessed by using an earlier version of the [[UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16 PC Engine]] CD System Card than what was required, and made into an unlockable in the earlier compilation ''Videogame/CastlevaniaTheDraculaXChronicles''[[/note]], with the message at the end now informing you there's "no extra life codes" and calling you a "cheater".

* In the [[UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16 SuperGrafx]] version of ''[[VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins Daimakaimura]]'', the code allows the player to add up to nine credits.

* In the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis version of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1'' pressing up, down, left, right, A, start on the title screen brings the player to a menu where all the levels in the game are accessible.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' episode "A Tale of Two Cows", Toot inputs the Konami code, only ending in "B, A, B, A, Start", on a UsefulNotes/PlayStation controller.

* In ''[[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows 10]]'', typing Konami or Konami Code in Cortana will reveal the Konami Code.

* Konami's in-house animation studio, Konami Animation, features the Code as part of its logo.

The code first appeared in Creator/{{Konami}} games on the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem, hence the trope name, as the NintendoHard games couldn't be properly debugged if the programmers couldn't even get far.

* A station indent for the 2021 Creator/{{G4}} network types out the Konami code in text, then adds, "Yep, still got it".

Though being well known, this has rarely been used as an outright cheat code since the early 16-bit days (as is the case with cheat codes in general). More often these days it's an EasterEgg that gives a cute effect. The code doesn't even have to use a standard controller as long as the directions can be pressed in some way. And regardless of the turbulent situation [[Creator/{{Konami}} the creator]] fell into after the year 2015-2016, the code continued to be respected and referenced when it comes to video game culture, and it still had their name attached to it.

* Using the code on the title screen of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime: Hey Ice King! Why'd you steal our garbage?'' activates Pen Ward's "secret screen".

* In ''[[VideoGame/ScottPilgrim Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World]]'', holding L2 and R2 (or the two triggers in the Xbox 360 version) and entering the code will cause your character to explode into a pile of coins.

** Oddly enough, none of the ''Contra'' sequels feature the code except for ''VideoGame/ContraShatteredSoldier'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 (the others use different cheat codes). For the code to work in ''Shattered Soldier'', the player must input the code using the second controller and substitute the left and the right on the d-pad with each successive L and R button (L1, R1, L2, R2, L3, and R3). Of course, all this does is make it really easy to get the worst ending.

** In ''VideoGame/YuGiOhRushDuelDawnOfTheBattleRoyale'', using it in a specific spot the Goha #7 Student Council Room after defeating Number 6 unlocks the deck editor without having to beat the game first.

** The second Game Boy game, ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesBackFromTheSewers'', has one of the code's least useful appearances: it refills your health meter, essentially giving you an extra life on command, but can only be used once per playthrough.

* Used in ''Manga/SoulHunter'' as an order from Taikoubou to his steed, Suupuushan. At first, Suupuu doesn't understand it and does nothing. Many chapters later, after Suupuu's [[spoiler:upgrade to a dragon]], Taikoubou says the command again and Suupuu executes a very complex evasive maneuver that would make [[Anime/MacrossPlus Guld Bowman]] proud.

* Punching in the Konami Code on the Fisher-Price Game & Learn baby game controller toy (minus Start, since the toy doesn't have such a button) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1x_rzz2FiE will have the toy play some sounds]] from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' and then proclaim you the winner.

*** Snake and Otacon designed a secret handshake friendship hug sometime before the story beginds that's a physical representation of the Konami Code. Otacon's a huge dork, and Snake's a PopCulturedBadass, so it fits.