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NES controller belt buckle

NES controller belt buckle. Just push "Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start" to get your pants off

By Jason Kottke    Oct 29, 2003 at 01:01 pm

There are 27 reader comments

Bryan    Oct 29 2003    1:42PM

I just can't believe someone paid 17 bucks for it.

Someone that isn't me, I mean.

Steven Garrity    Oct 29 2003    2:59PM

You missed "select" - it's "Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, B, A, Select, Start"

John    Oct 29 2003    3:37PM

I've spent most of my adult life trying to _forget_ the "Contra" cheat code!

Eamon    Oct 29 2003    4:06PM

Steven, those are two different codes. The former gives you 33 lives per continue, the latter infinite.

This shirt always gets laughs.

jkottke    Oct 29 2003    4:12PM

There seems to be some controversy as to the exact cheat code. Including Steven's (which sounds more correct than the one I have listed), there are about 4 different variations I've found with various Google searches. I can't remember which is the true cheat, and can't really check because I don't have an NES handy and don't want to d/l an NES emulator.

Glutton    Oct 29 2003    4:14PM

Notice the guy is selling two more of these "unique" buckles... all going for $17-18.

Ben    Oct 29 2003    4:29PM

I recently noticed a cargo truck from NJ driving through Minneapolis (any van with grafitti sticks out like a sore thumb here, whereas in NY or NJ they are commonplace), and it had a large sticker of that code phrase on it (up down up down left right, etc...) Must be something from "the streets".

Mathew    Oct 29 2003    4:47PM

The version I grew up with was Up Up, Down Down, Left Right, Left Right, B A, B A, Start

jjg    Oct 29 2003    6:48PM

In Texas, they use Xbox controllers for belt buckles.

Brian    Oct 29 2003    9:39PM

For Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 : the Arcade Game (by Konami)

the code was B A B A U D B A L R B A Start

Andrew    Oct 29 2003    10:57PM

It's not just the Contra code, it's the Konami code and works in many of the early Konami games for the Famicom/NES including Gradius and Contra. In Contra, B, A, Start is for the single player game and B, A, Select, Start is for multiplayer. According to Kazuhisa Hashimoto (one of Konami's NES guys) he made the code because he needed something easy to remember for debugging.

dowingba    Oct 29 2003    11:29PM

Geeze just get a game genie. Nerds.

Mike    Oct 30 2003    10:15AM

Nice one Jesse ;)

sushiesque    Oct 30 2003    2:06PM

That's the code to get your pants off 40 times. If you hit "select" before "start", that's the code to get *two* people's pants off. 40 times.

Rob Iracane    Oct 30 2003    2:17PM

There's an Ataris song called "Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start" on their 2001 album End Is Forever. Pretty lame pop-punk song but a great 80's reference nonetheless.

jason    Oct 31 2003    9:12AM

U U D D L R L R B A (select) START

that's the code. :)

did anyone ever beat Rush N' Attack?

sushiesque    Nov 01 2003    11:42AM

Nope, no one ever did. And did anyone else always hear that title as "Russian Attack"?

John    Nov 03 2003    10:05PM

"Rush N' Attack" was one of my favorite arcade games. I did think it was a play on "Russian Attack," since the Cold War was still raging, the enemy soldiers and their gear looked vaguely Soviet, and you'd see red stars on some of the buildings. If I remember correctly, the international version of "Rush N' Attack" was called "Green Beret."

I can rescue the POWs on the coin-op version twice, but I didn't really play the Nintendo version much.

sushiesque    Nov 04 2003    9:59AM

tangent: the Japanese version of "Bionic Commando" was called "Top Secret - Hitler's Revival" and had swastikas everywhere.

Crackercrumbs    Dec 04 2003    11:43PM

up up down down left right left right ba start gave you 30 guys in contra and life force, it also refilled your life (only once) in the game boy teenage mutant ninja turtles, also it worked in super r-type if you wanted to blow up your ship...if you used the l and r buttons it maxed your weapons i think.

becca    Dec 10 2003    2:12PM

hey...does ANYONE know how to make the nintendo[NES] controller belt buckle??

becca    Dec 10 2003    2:12PM

hey...does ANYONE know how to make the nintendo[NES] controller belt buckle??

nicole wessler    Jan 25 2004    5:07PM

make it

ask for austin    Jan 25 2004    5:08PM

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ask for austin    Jan 25 2004    5:08PM

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ask for austin    Jan 25 2004    5:08PM

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James    Feb 22 2004    7:46PM

http://www.NESBuckle.com check it out, they sell them!

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