Secret cheat codes used to be a staple. I do kind of miss them; although they kind of died a death when the types of games that used to commonly harbour them also disappeared.
Cheat codes used to be my favourite part of GTA. Turn on pedestrians attack on sight, and reduced traffic and you got yourself a nice zombie horde game :D Also flying cars
I think Goldeneye on N64 had the best blend in that you needed to do specific achievements in order to unlock specific cheat codes to use in game. We could use more innovative systems like that.
PC Games usually have them, consoles... not so much. I do like to use them just to get past a game that I don`t have time for. I just opened up Resistance Fall of Man and Resistance 2. In part one I REALLY wanted a code for unlimited ammo or something just to get through the game (I was falling asleep on some moments). As…