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You don\u2019t look a day over 30 lives.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n On this very day in 1986, a piece of code<\/a> was accidentally left in the Famicom (NES) version of Konami\u2019s Gradius<\/em>\u00a0that allowed anyone to completely juice up their spaceship by pressing up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, then A<\/strong> on the controller. And so began the legendary \u201cKonami Code\u201d, which really caught on in the West as a way to get 30 lives in Contra.<\/p>\n And in celebration of the cheat code\u2019s 40th anniversary, Konami has opened a commemorative webpage on the official site for its Project Zircon<\/em><\/strong>. The largely user-built world of this Web3 game platform is still under development, but is expected to include the Konami Code somehow as it grows.<\/p>\n Also, in honor of the Guinness World Record holder for most famous cheat code, a line of T-shirts is being sold through Amazon\u2019s Merch on Demand<\/strong> service, which prints each shirt as it\u2019s ordered.<\/p>\n The girl pictured on some of those shirts is Nami-chan, The Konami Maniac. Through her web manga made by Shota Hattori, she shares her love of all things Konami from old to new, including the burgeoning Project Zircon<\/em>. Hattori is also the current artist behind the long-running Nippen no Miko-chan, the mascot for the Japanese penmanship society, Nippen. Her manga can also be found online as she continues to fight the good fight for proper penmanship in the digital era.<\/p>\n \u25bc Both Nami and Miko will be joining the celebration of the Konami Code in a special edition manga<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u3010\u7d39\u4ecb\u30de\u30f3\u30ac\u3011 \u670d\u90e8\u6607\u5927\u5148\u751f\u304c\u63cf\u304f \u300c\u65e5\u30da\u30f3\u306e\u7f8e\u5b50\u3061\u3083\u3093\u300d\u3068\u306e\u30b3\u30e9\u30dc\u304c\u5b9f\u73fe\uff01 \u2014 \u3010KONAMI\u3011PROJECT ZIRCON\u516c\u5f0f\u300c\u65b0\u4f5c\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u3092\u307f\u3093\u306a\u3067\u5275\u308b\u300d (@Project_Zircon) April 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n But that\u2019s not all. Konami will also be releasing the music from six Gradius<\/em> and Gradius<\/em>-adjacent games on all major streaming and download platforms<\/strong>, as well as many not-so-major Japanese ones.<\/p>\n I\u2019m going to explain these titles, and I apologize in advance if this causes headaches or nausea. The first game is the Famicom version of the original Gradius<\/em> game, not to be confused with the original arcade game, which was called Nemesis<\/em> outside of Japan. The soundtrack for Nemesis<\/em> is also available, but not the one I just mentioned. The Game Boy game based on Gradius<\/em> was also called Nemesis<\/em>, both in Japan and abroad. Music from Nemesis II<\/em> is also available, but this is not the game made for the MSX home computer in 1987. It\u2019s the sequel to the Game Boy version, which was called Gradius: The Interstellar Assault<\/em> outside of Japan.<\/p>\n Are you still with me? Good, because we\u2019re only halfway through. There\u2019s also the music from Gradius II<\/em>, which shouldn\u2019t be mistaken for the sequel to Gradius<\/em>, because that\u2019s actually Salamander<\/em>, which is known as Life Force<\/em> outside of Japan. The music from that is available too, though. Finally, there\u2019s also the soundtrack to Gradius III<\/em> for the Super Famicom, the fourth mainline title and sixth game of its kind made.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a bit of a shame that up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a is more associated with Gradius<\/em> than Contra<\/em> in Japan, because that game had some really badass music. Maybe, we can get it when the code\u2019s 50th anniversary rolls around.<\/p>\n In the meantime, why not celebrate today by blowing into a cartridge<\/a> of your favorite Konami classic and letting the muscle memory of your fingers take over for some added bonuses?<\/p>\n Source: Project Zircon\/\u2191\u2191\u2193\u2193\u2190\u2192\u2190\u2192BA 40th Anniversary<\/a>, PR Times<\/a><\/em> You don\u2019t look a day over 30 lives. 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