It’s likely as a retro gaming fan you have at some point played a Konami game. If, like me, you were also a fan of using cheats, then there is/was a famous cheat common to a wide range of Konami games – one which has since become famous for its long-running use. But what about those rare occasions when the developers turned the tables upside down and also cheated? Konami ironically were quite famous for doing this in one of their series – namely Parodius. As it was a parody of Gradius, Konami also chose to parody their “standard” cheat code. The result of this meant that entering the Konami Code on Parodius killed you – a trick which also made its way into Tomb Raider II, with the prequel’s cheat code turning Lara Croft into a human detonator.