Cheat codes may not be as prominent in video games as they once were, but there was a time when entire magazines, TV shows, and websites were dedicated to sharing these commands, codes, and tactics ...

Anthony is a writer who's worked in the games industry for four years. He's a competitive gamer with a soft spot for retro titles. Anthony enjoys speedrunning a few titles, but Simpson's Hit & Run is ...

Video game cheat codes are largely relics of the pixelated past these days, but that doesn't mean all those original button-mashed goodies have been completely uncovered. In fact, one of the cooler ...

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 ...

In the '90s, cheat codes—Big Head Mode, anyone?—dominated video games. Now, in gaming's prestige era, everything is earned the hard way. What gives? Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire ...

Alright, here's a really wild one. In 2022, a whopping 28 years (!) after Super Punch-Out!! was first released for the SNES, Twitter account Unlisted Cheats revealed a previously unknown cheat which ...

Over the last few decades, video games have evolved to the point where many now consider them a form of art, much like cinema and television. This shift has also led to games becoming increasingly ...

Cheating in video games has changed dramatically over time, and there are stigmas about it now that simply didn't exist two decades ago. I can't really fault the change, either. Cheating nowadays is ...