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kotaku.com - 4/28/2009

The Konami Code Makes ESPN.com Magical! - Espn

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Sports fans with a taste for glittery unicorns should run, not walk, to ESPN .com and remember their Konami Code, because it appears that some soon to be possibly unemployed web designer is having a laugh. As a couple of unicorn-loving tipsters with a thirst for sporting news have ...

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i4u.com - 4/28/2009

Unicorns Invade ESPN Via Konami Code Hack

— i4u.com — Some merry pranksters had fun with ESPN.com today, implementing a hack that riddled the popular sports site... with bright unicorns and rainbows when users inputted the Konami code on their keyboards. Word spread on Twitter of the hack, giving users a few ... (more) Unicorns Invade ESPN Via Konami Code Hack

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Unicorns Invade ESPN Via Konami Code Hack
I4U News — ... game Contra, is well known to videogame fans. It references the code players had to input in various Konami videogames for extra lives and health: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, start. [Via Kotaku ] Posted on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:25:00 CDT | by James Douglas

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Crave: The gadget blog — ... Additionally, ESPN.com tries to be cool when it briefly enables the "Contra code" for its website. The hack lasted for about forty-five minutes before it got shut down, but we give the site props for making unicorns and rainbows cool again. ...

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CrunchGear — ... The well-loved and possibly most-remembered “secret” code of all time, the Konami code, is waning in significance. Unless you’re a frequent Gradius and Contra player (though I can’t be the only one), you probably find few occasions on which to use it. Fortunately, there are a few games, and by games I mean websites, out right now which will take the code. Unfortunately, it no longer makes ESPN pony time. ...