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Cheats Codes and Glitches Trivia Quiz

This quiz is over various cheats, codes, and glitches on a variety of gaming systems.

A multiple-choice quiz by dustman_30. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
dustman_30

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
167,437

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Very Difficult

Avg Score
4 / 10

Plays
786

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, start, is a variation of a cheat that give you 30 extra lives in what game? Hint

Super Mario World

Contra

Yo-Noid

Actraiser

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Question 2 of 10

2. 5656 allows you to shrink to tiny size in what multi-player game for the SNES? Hint

Super Bomberman

Mortal Kombat II

Super Mario Kart

Super Smash Brothers

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Question 3 of 10

3. In what game can you hit your head on a block and walk though the wall backwards? Hint

Castlevania Bloodlines

Castlevania

Super Mario Brothers

Super Mario World

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Question 4 of 10

4. In what SNES game can you kill a boss by getting caught and then electrocuting yourself? Hint

Super Metroid

Final Fanstasy III

Jurassic Park

Lagoon

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Question 5 of 10

5. In what game could you win by simply pressing left, right, left, right, until time ran out? Hint

Shaq Fu

Turtles Tournament Fighters

Primal Rage

Mortal Kombat

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Question 6 of 10

6. In what game is there a warp hole right before you hit a wall at full speed? Hint

Battletoads

Star Fox 64

F-Zero

Sonic the Hedgehog

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Question 7 of 10

7. In what game can you use a special flashing block more than once if your screen is full? Hint

Columns

Dr. Mario

Tetris

Tetris 2

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Question 8 of 10

8. In what game can you avoid every shot at you by just ducking? Hint

Metroid

Contra

Operation Wolf

Robocop vs. Terminator

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Question 9 of 10

9. In what series do you use special weapons to put in a password? Hint

Megaman

Zelda

Ninja Gaiden

Castlevania

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Question 10 of 10

10. What company made a game that uses a grid with red and blue dots for passwords? Hint

Capcom

Hudson

Squaresort

Angel

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, start, is a variation of a cheat that give you 30 extra lives in what game?

Answer: Contra

There are about 4 different variations of this code. It depends on if you play one of 2 players and which version of the game you have?

2. 5656 allows you to shrink to tiny size in what multi-player game for the SNES?

Answer: Super Bomberman

This was the first game to introduce the muli-tap for multiple players.

3. In what game can you hit your head on a block and walk though the wall backwards?

Answer: Super Mario Brothers

This will take you to a pipe that leads to a hidden level.

4. In what SNES game can you kill a boss by getting caught and then electrocuting yourself?

Answer: Super Metroid

You need about 6 tanks of energy to pull this off.

5. In what game could you win by simply pressing left, right, left, right, until time ran out?

Answer: Mortal Kombat

This glitch was later corrected so that after a certain amount of times repeating the same step the computer will do something different.

6. In what game is there a warp hole right before you hit a wall at full speed?

Answer: Battletoads

There are at least 3 different warps, in worlds 3, 4, and 6.

7. In what game can you use a special flashing block more than once if your screen is full?

Answer: Columns

If there is a block that is still out of the screen when you put it down, it will fall into play after the others disappear.

8. In what game can you avoid every shot at you by just ducking?

Answer: Contra

This only works in levels that are not side-scrolling.

9. In what series do you use special weapons to put in a password?

Answer: Castlevania

10. What company made a game that uses a grid with red and blue dots for passwords?

Answer: Capcom

The games referred to are the different "Megaman" games, though the first couple games didn't have blue dots, they still had the red ones on a gird. They have used many different grids, and later used numbers with characters.

Source: Author dustman_30

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