Re: [silk] Press Start...

[VaibhaV Sharma]

On Nov 7, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Casey O'Donnell wrote: It means we're big game-geeks. Or at least 80's pop-culture-geeks. It does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code The important part being that it gave you 30 lives to start instead of 3 when playing Contra on the NES. Oh! Those were *the* days. Circa 1988-92, at my hometown in India, we used to get the game console and "2 free" game cartridges for Rs. 20 per hour (approx $0.50) and then the prices came down to Rs. 5 per hour and Rs. 25 for the whole night (evening to next morning). And then those "5 games in 1" cartridges were available at extra cost. Super Mario Bros., Contra, Donkey-kong, Popeye, Road rash? *sigh*  -- VaibhaV Sharma http://vsharma.net