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The Konami Code was discovered inside a fortune cookie. Which is why it still feels like secret menu energy.

✗ FAKE
The Konami Code was created by Kazuhisa Hashimoto in 1986 while testing Gradius, as a way to make the game easier to debug. It did not come from a fortune cookie.

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