Oh man I remember that “make your own GG codes” tutorial tape. My nerdy preteen self spent many hours making my own (usually terrible) cheat codes and bragging

Oh man I remember that “make your own GG codes” tutorial tape. My nerdy preteen self spent many hours making my own (usually terrible) cheat codes and bragging about them at the lunch table the next day. Thinking back on it, half the codes were dumb stuff like “turn Sonic red” that probably would have a been a big hit if the modern Sonic fandom existed back in the 90s. I hit my apex a few years later in the n64 era when a few games started to leave in cut content or beta stuff. Gamesharking cut content back into Goldeneye and Banjo Kazooie blew the other kids’ minds back then. Funnily enough, a few years ago I found myself using Cheat Engine to skip a grindy part of a game - and it turned out that the code hunting skills from my childhood transferred perfectly. The exact same techniques from that old VHS tape applied, all wrapped up in a modern GUI.