History of video games/Cheating

__NOTOC__ 1970s 1980s In 1985 the Konami Code is introduced to help test Gradius, later finding it's way into other games and products as a code to activate cheats or easter eggs.Kreps Daniel 'Konami Code' Creator Kazuhisa Hashimoto Dead at 61 https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/konami-code-creator-kazuhisa-hashimoto-dead-958748/ 29 January 2021 Rolling Stone 26 February 2020GlitterBerri's Game Translations » Konami: The Nintendo Era https://www.glitterberri.com/developer-interviews/konami-the-nintendo-era/ 29 January 2021 www.glitterberri.com 1990s 2000s In May 2002 the television show Cheat! begins airing on the G4 network, sharing video game cheats on TV.Cheat! Pringles Gamers Guide (TV Series 2002– ) - IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367302/ 15 December 2020 2010s Pokémon Go In March 2016 the popular game Pokémon Go begins to use OpenStreetMap, an open source map anyone can edit, as a data source.WoodWoseWulf's diary Pokemon GO Mappers - What They Do and Why They Do It https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/WoodWoseWulf/diary/382394 OpenStreetMap 15 December 2020 en Players quickly discover that changes in OpenStreetMap affect Pokémon Go gameplay.Scimeca Dennis 'Pokémon Go' Hack: Altering OpenStreetMap data may create new spawn points in the game https://www.mic.com/articles/166654/pokemon-go-hack-altering-openstreetmap-data-may-create-new-spawn-points-in-the-game 15 December 2020 Mic en Vandalism of the map for in game advantage is quickly countered by users engaging in anti vandalism activities.Juhasz Levente Novack Tessio Hochmair Hartwig Qiao Sen Cartographic Vandalism in the Era of Location-Based Games—The Case of OpenStreetMap and Pokémon GO GIS Center 26 March 2020 10.3390/ijgi9040197 https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/gis/77/ 15 December 2020 As a result of vandalism on an open dataset, researchers were able to analyze such vandalism in depth. 2020s Gallery References Cheating in video games Cheating in online games Cheating hardware 0%