| Say you're up late at night at a friend's apartment | | | | feature, for example, is just one of many |
| playing Grand Theft Auto and you're feeling a little | | | | changes you can create, although unless you are |
| wacky. What better time to throw in a few cheat | | | | just really punchy it's hard to imagine why anyone |
| codes to up the wack factor? Turn the | | | | would get a big kick out of that particular one. |
| pedestrians against you and watch the bullets fly | | | | Shape shifting is a cool cheat in some games, |
| from every behind every parked car! The cheats | | | | though, and so is invisibility or the ability to fly. |
| for that game are especially cool, but almost | | | | You can also put in a "No clip" code and put the |
| every video game known to man has cheat | | | | game into an ethereal sort of mode where you |
| codes installed in it. From back in the dawn of the | | | | can float through solid objects. |
| gaming industry, in fact, developers imbedded | | | | Power hungry players have a field day with |
| cheat codes into games for their own use-they | | | | cheats. You can play in God Mode, which means |
| made testing the games faster-and just never | | | | you are pretty much invulnerable to anything and |
| removed them. | | | | cannot be killed. You can also add to your cache |
| Computer geeks being what they are, they | | | | of weapons, money, or other useful possessions; |
| latched onto the codes, and in ,addition, learned | | | | you can become gigantic; or you could use a code |
| how to use what were called "POKES" to modify | | | | to achieve infinite resources like ammunition. |
| certain memory addresses. The fun was just | | | | So really, with cheat codes, you can play a game |
| beginning. When developers learned that gamers | | | | over and over and make it interesting every time. |
| expected the imbedded games Cheat and | | | | Even games you have beaten can still be amusing. |
| unlockables, they began regularly imbedding them | | | | And no matter what hard core, die hard, |
| in every game. | | | | live-in-their-parents' basement gamers may tell |
| These days, you can change all sorts of game | | | | you, there is nothing wrong in cheat codes. |
| aspects using cheats. The ever-popular giant head | | | | |