10 best retro game cheats 

Do you like to skip the boring stuff in the game, or maybe you’re stuck and unsure how to achieve the set task. Whatever your reason here are 10 retro game cheats that you can use.

The Konami code

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A 

Doom: god mode

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Nights into dreams: seasonal content 

Simply setting your system clock to New Year's Day, Christmas Day or Valentine's Day would unlock the corresponding level, whether it be a snow laden stage, or one full of hearts.

Mortal kombat: blood code

If you're of a younger generation, you might not know that some games used to get banned. It was part of a whole 'video nasty' thing back in the 1990s, where TV and newspaper reports targeted individual facets of products and made it look like they were 'evil'. Actually, not much has changed, in that respect.

Anyway, Mortal Kombat was one of the outrage games that had people in a huff due to it being incredibly graphic at the time: this game was very controversial. To keep in line with the times, the developers censored the game, but it transpired a simple cheat code could just unlock it anyway. This simply couldn't happen nowadays, as rules and regulations are so much more stringent.

Super Mario bros

hold the A-button and press Start, and you'll restart your game at the beginning of the world you expired in. So, if you got a game over on 5–3, you can start over on 5–1 instead of 1–1. 

Metal gear solid3

Most people will spend an age on this fight, but you can actually kill The End with the help of Old Father Time. Get to the area where you fight The End and save your game, then turn it off and go to the main menu of the PS2. Similarly to Nights into Dreams, set your clock a few weeks ahead of the day you're on, and when you load the game, The End is dead. The ravages of time got him, and you're still a relatively spring chicken.

NBA jam 

Hold up, the turbo button, and the steal button until tip off, and you'll have huge heads for your players.

Sonic the hedgehog 

Up, Down, Left, Right, A + Start: that was all it took to let you jump straight to Scrap Brain Zone or Spring Yard Zone. 

Punch out 

The simplest way, then, was to just punch in the password 0073735963 and jump straight to mike Tyson 

International superstar soccer 

On the title screen, if you grabbed the second controller and hit right, up, down, left, X, B, left, A, right and Y, you'd hear a dog bark. Then, when you play the game, the officials were dogs. Yes, dogs. They'd still book you when you committed fouls, too. What a game. What a cheat.