Quote Originally Posted by bipper
I do remember Contra, and the konomi code My cousin and I would always love beatin the hell outta that game. So much fun! Just being able to have two players playing at the same time. What a HUGE deal.
I remember this fondly too. I remember hearing about it during recess (I was in the fourth or fifth grade) and that friday night my friend and I rented a Nintendo and Contra just to try out the code. Even with 30 lives and three continues the first time we played we only made it to the end of the fifth level. xD

Also, it was only a couple of years ago that I realized that when I first played Nintendo games, I was playing on a Famicom and not a NES. My best friend at the time was Tiawanese and his friend's aunt had bought him a video game system when she was back over in Asia for business. We used to play Super Mario Brothers, Solomon's Key and some tank game. I realized that it was the Famicom because we were playing it in the summer/fall of 1985, and Nintendos didn't show up on US soil until late 1985, and then only in limited availability in New York City. Also, I remember that they had this 400 page guide book that outlined every level in Super Mario Brothers, where every hidden block enemy, coin, etc... was shown in full color maps. It was all in some strange language that I couldn't understand, but I always referenced the pictures.