Google Reader utilizes Konami Code
by Candace Savino 
{ Jun 11th 2008 at 10:00PM }
We love when the Konami Code shows up in pop culture, as it reminds us of one of our favorite games (Contra, obviously, which made the code famous in North America). The latest place for the infamous code to infiltrate was Google's RSS feed reader, Google Reader. When you have the reader open to its home screen, just press up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A. This causes your sidebar to turn blue while a Ninja pops up with the text "Moshi moshi," which is a Japanese telephone greeting.Another cute thing about this easter egg is the number of unread articles for every site on your list, which is automatically changed to thirty. If this reference is lost on you, a player is given thirty lives upon entering the code in the original Contra, which helps a lot. Unfortunately for wussies like ourselves, the cheat doesn't provide as much of a cushion in Contra 4, but we digress.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
monkeymonkeymonkey @ Jun 11th 2008 11:46PM
lol
no way someone just found this, it had to be leaked by the coder.
TJF588 @ Jun 12th 2008 5:22AM
Totally saw this when looking up about the code on Wikipedia. Yeash, someone updated that fast.