The creator of the world's most well-known boot code in the games of death

Kazuhisa Hashimoto, the creator of the famous 'Konami code' at the age of 61 years passed away. That is reported by the Japanese speluitgever Konami on Twitter.

The Konami code is the most well-known boot code in video games. Hashimoto came up with the combination of ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A Start in 1986, when the programmer is working on the move of the game, Gradius, on the video game console Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

a former Konami programmer, the code, to assist in the testing, Gradius, as he is in the game, of course, was not able to play". For some strange reason remained in the code for the final version of the game sitting down.

The code is not really well-known in the Counter, that is, in 1988, the NES was released. The players that are in the code, and established, had thirty extra lives.

The code that ended up in more than a hundred of games from Konami enjoy it, including in the Castlevania and Metal Gear Solid games. Also, the games of the other publishers ' names with the code below. Often, however, he provided a small surprise or a hidden message.