  Game Breaking: How Cheat Codes Changed Video Games Cheaters never win...unless you're talking about video games. By: David Silverberg
In the '80s and '90s, video game cheat codes were a hot schoolyard commodity. They were the baseball cards of an increasingly digital generation. The sounds of players trading digital secrets might've sounded incomprehensible to the uninitiated—"I'll give you this Doom cheat code for your NBA Jam big-head code!"—but it was the language of the early gamer.
These encoded secrets formed whole communities and helped turn some of the most devilishly difficult video games—often ported from arcade games thirsty for quarters—into something actually beatable.
From MS-DOS to PlayStation 5, the story of cheat codes is the story of video games.
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Game Breaking: How Cheat Codes Changed Video Games
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