The Game Genie was like magic when it first came out. It let you add on cheat codes to pretty much any game, and suddenly stuff you'd gotten bored or frustrated with became a whole new experiencennnAll the good Game Genie codes usually made you stronger or invincible. But of course, there were some codes that didn't work so well and even made games worse.nnnIn case you were curious, here's the absolute dumbest Game Genie codes ever discovered.

3. Contra: Can’t Move Your LegsrnrnrnThe infamous difficulty of Contra meant most of us had to pop the Konami code in to get extra lives.rnrnrnBut while extra lives are really useful, this code makes it where your legs don’t move while your characters move. Unless this scares Red Falcon away, we’re filing it under useless.