Can you name the button sequence for the 'Contra Code' that must be pushed to get bonus lives?

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Contra Code Quiz

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Created Oct 15, 2009 in Gaming
Featured Jan 6, 2011
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	mraithel13:	Jan 6th, 2011 at 20:32 GMT		4 points
	love this game.

	JonnyWalker:	Jan 6th, 2011 at 20:36 GMT		45 points
	I heard there's a was to get through this quiz with 30 lives and unlimited cash in under .005 seconds.

	tvfan3:	Jan 6th, 2011 at 20:36 GMT		17 points
	Haha I never even played that game and I knew the code.

	kcostell:	Jan 6th, 2011 at 20:56 GMT		57 points
	Perhaps select should be a bonus answer, in case two people are taking this quiz together?

	Bobzco:	Jan 6th, 2011 at 21:32 GMT		3 points
	gotta love the konami code. Even facebook uses it!...but so does every game by capcom. No competition there. Mega-Man, GO!!

	dph9:	Jan 6th, 2011 at 22:47 GMT		7 points
	It's been nearly two decades since I last played this and I still have it memorized. Not sure if that's impressive or sad.

	vcgfdfgd:	Jan 6th, 2011 at 22:52 GMT		3 points
	thanks brentalfoss i couldn't of done this without you

	canuckster19:	Jan 6th, 2011 at 23:52 GMT		6 points
	lol dph9, I still remember the Doom codes, IDKFA, IDSPISPOPDID, IDDQD, IDBEHOLD.

	WeirFan:	Jan 7th, 2011 at 00:07 GMT		4 points
	This is the best Sporcle ever.

	cthulhu:	Jan 7th, 2011 at 00:59 GMT		5 points
	Even God knows it.

	dedalus:	Jan 7th, 2011 at 01:32 GMT		2 points
	I might be way out of line here, but wasn't B,A repeated? of course, the past two decades are a bit of a haze...

	kagomeshuko:	Jan 7th, 2011 at 01:38 GMT		2 points
	LOL . . . just kept guessing and ended up getting it!

	perashaman:	Jan 7th, 2011 at 02:00 GMT		4 points
	Canuckster, I never used IDSPISPOPDID or IDBEHOLD but I did use IDCLIP pretty often.

	16note:	Jan 7th, 2011 at 02:01 GMT		4 points
	Loved this quiz. A nice piece of gaming history right here.

	druhutch:	Jan 7th, 2011 at 03:34 GMT		7 points
	I love that this was published.

	Ludovico7:	Jan 7th, 2011 at 03:42 GMT		12 points
	That's B, A, SELECT, start, if you want two two players.

	superkane:	Jan 7th, 2011 at 07:04 GMT		6 points
	Known to us vets as the Konami Code.

	Pauleon:	Jan 7th, 2011 at 09:26 GMT		6 points
	Mouldy peaches song from Juno anyone?

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	buttscounty:	Jan 7th, 2011 at 13:21 GMT		10 points
	BA was indeed, NOT repeated. At least on Contra it wasn't.

	DJ_KC:	Jan 7th, 2011 at 13:37 GMT		1 point
	7 seconds.....I can do better....

	stevoreno79:	Jan 7th, 2011 at 16:14 GMT		3 points
	Wow can't believe I still remember that.

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	AdamBishop:	Jan 7th, 2011 at 18:05 GMT		2 points
	Even with 99 lives I couldn't finish this game.

	hnd03:	Jan 7th, 2011 at 22:49 GMT		-3 points
	The Contra code is wrong, since I believe it first appeared in Gradius. Still most people just call it the Konami code.

	BunnySMG:	Jan 7th, 2011 at 23:32 GMT		2 points
	Ahh yes, the fastest way to blow yourself up in Gradius III. It took me a little bit to figure out that you had to sub in the left and right shoulder buttons to not explode.

	UndeadChimp:	Jan 7th, 2011 at 23:34 GMT		2 points
	♪ Up up down down left right left right B A Start, just because we use cheats doesn't mean we're not smart ♪

	YoshiEgg25:	Jan 8th, 2011 at 05:20 GMT		1 point
	@hnd03 That's correct, it was originally used in Gradius, but was most well-known as being in Contra. I've never heard it be called the "Contra Code" (even being in retro gaming circles) and the title, in my opinion, should be changed in accordance to that.

	jaypunkrawk:	Jan 9th, 2011 at 00:14 GMT		-2 points
	52 seconds left!

	Dunk:	Jan 14th, 2011 at 02:25 GMT		3 points
	If you repeated the BA, no harm was done, you still got the bonus lives. Also, technically, start is not part of the code.

	StupidBunny:	Feb 6th, 2011 at 09:19 GMT		2 points
	It's funny...when I play Contra I get the code to work without having to press start at the end of it (although I know that's theoretically part of the code.) Differs between various Konami games I guess.

	Robotron110:	Mar 1st, 2011 at 17:16 GMT		1 point
	The Contra Code was also used in the xbox version of Half-Life 2 to gain health.

	BlackJesus:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 05:10 GMT		0 points
	its up up down down left right left right b a b a start (or select start for 2player). The B-A is repeated.