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.
12. Super Mario Bros.: Blackface MariornrnrnThis code is sometimes referred to the “black Mario†code, and it wouldn’t be bad at all if that’s how it worked. But Mario’s sprite looks more like a man in blackface rather than a black man.rnrnrnMaybe the real story is that Mario got canceled in the real world for
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.
12. Super Mario Bros.: Blackface MariornrnrnThis code is sometimes referred to the “black Mario†code, and it wouldn’t be bad at all if that’s how it worked. But Mario’s sprite looks more like a man in blackface rather than a black man.rnrnrnMaybe the real story is that Mario got canceled in the real world for his racist antics before escaping to the Mushroom Kingdom?more...