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"path": "/2026/04/24/happy-40th-birthday-up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-b-a/",
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"Japan",
"famicom",
"Game Boy",
"Gradius",
"Konami",
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"Life Force",
"music",
"Nami-chan",
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"textContent": "You don’t look a day over 30 lives. On this very day in 1986, a piece of code was accidentally left in the Famicom (NES) version of Konami’s Gradius that allowed anyone to completely juice up their spaceship by pressing up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, then A on the controller. And so […]",
"title": "Happy 40th birthday, Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A!"
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