Epic Win: Game Genie
Submitted by Praggya R
Game Genie would get an Epic Win just for this wannabe Bill & Ted commercial, however, Game Genie was also an amazing hack for Nintendo users. In the wrong hands, Game Genie could be used for ill, such as using cheats that removed any challenge, such as infinite star-power on Mario. It could also be used for good in games such as the original Final Fantasy.
Final Fantasy was incredibly slow and boring when you were required to trudge along for hours fighting trolls and giants in order to accumulate gold. The difficulty of the game also decreased because your characters would level up several times during your quest for gold. However, when you enabled “Almost Infinite Gold” from the Game Genie, you could move through the story quicker, while increasing the difficulty of of gameplay because your characters would be well-equipped, but under leveled the further into the game you ventured.
LAST!!!!
PS, Genies Own
I never had Game Genie. I was a Game Shark kid.
Game Genies were also a good cheat for making the games load. Instead of the, put the cartridge in, press the button, the screen flashes, pull the cartridge to the front, press the button, the screen flashes, move the cartridge a touch to the left, press the button, you almost see the game… etc., stick a Game Genie on it and viola, the game loads!
Game Genie was great for the Sega Genesis, if only for the tower.
Game Genie + Sonic & Knuckles + Sonic 2. Ridiculous.
No, it’s (From Bottom) Model 1 SegaCD hardware, Model 1 Sega Genesis hardware, Sega 32X hardware, THEN the Game Genie (or two of them, for more codes), and S&K and Sonic3.
The Game Genie rocked. I got one for the SNES, and the Genesis. Although at the time Action Replay was better, because it allowed more lines for codes, thus you got better codes. They where really rare to find.
But once the N64, PS1,Saturn rolled around the Genie died, and the Game Shark came to be.
After we got tired of the codes in the book, my brother and I spent countless hours creating new codes (i.e. typing in random codes until it made something weird happen). Good times! The only way we beat TMNT for the NES.
I wouldn’t have been able to get thru Super Mario 3 without my Game Genie… I had the Game Genie code book!
Ah, Galoob, how we miss thee. My favorite cheat on SMB1 was “Moon Jump”: you hit the A button, and as long as you held it down you would stay in the air. The downside was you could literally skip the end of a level (i.e. the castle, or the pipe, or the boss) and then be stuck until the time ran out.
For SMB3, I would give myself a full set of P-wings, do the required levels in world 1 to get the flutes, and then warp to world 8. Those P-wings were crucial for me in world 8, especially the level with the flying ships that moved uber-fast.
little known fact of the game genie: they stacked, you could stack up as many as you’d like, out the codes in one then put codes into the next one, and so on… that knuckles tower had nothing on my nes 6genie tower sticking out of an old nes system, it required a milkcrate to keep it level and prevent it from falling apart (especially when they got worn and loose, anyone with an old nes knows what i mean)
I’ve still got a Game Genie for the NES… and the NES itself… and who knows how many games for it. Never liked using it, and lost the code book that came with it anyway, but the Genie’s still sitting here next to the NES.
I left a GG in my old NES for years when I stopped playing it (I started back up again later of course) and after being in the system for so long it stretched the female connector in the system out. Now the ONLY way a game loads on that NES is if the GG is in there.