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district court in San Francisco issued a ruling in Galoob’s favor. Nintendo managed to get a court order to stop Galoob from marketing the Game Genie for about a year, until a U.S. Inserting a Game Genie into a NES console, from the Game Genie manual. Perhaps more irritating for Nintendo was the fact that the Game Genie was an unlicensed device, unapproved by Nintendo, and Galoob intended to do an end-run around Nintendo’s strict NES licensing scheme. Galoob originally intended to launch the Game Genie in the summer of 1990, but Nintendo got wind of it first and took Galoob to court on copyright infringement charges, claiming that the Game Genie made unauthorized derivative works of its games. The product itself felt like a cheat to Nintendo, which sought legal remedy in court. “ I think there is some truth to it would de-value the games if you could cheat to the ending easily,” says Frank Cifaldi, Founder and Co-Director of the Video Game History Foundation.īut in-game cheating wasn’t the only controversy surrounding the Game Genie. Nintendo may have feared as much, too, since it ran contests in Nintendo Power magazine based on player-submitted high scores. Just like today, there was a group of players who played competitively for high scores, and some of them looked down upon the Game Genie as a cheating device. It was like a gift that kept on giving.īut the Game Genie wasn’t seen as a gift by everyone.

This gave your older games new value, making them fun to play-even if you had previously completed them without cheating. Using the Game Genie, you could give your in-game character the power to get past tougher parts of a game or simply warp automatically to later stages. In that environment, Game Genie felt like an unlimited fountain of cheat codes in a box. Players who didn’t want to sink endless time into mastering a game often relied on cheat codes to access later levels that they might not get to see otherwise. If you spent that kind of money on a very difficult game, it often felt like a ripoff if you couldn’t play through most of it.Īt the time, most new games were very difficult (by modern standards), with many borrowing the gameplay philosophy of arcade games designed to extract endless quarters. Many gamers only bought (or received) a few games a year. Video games were fairly expensive in 1991, with the average NES game retailing for around $30-$50 in the U.S., which is about $60-100 today when adjusted for inflation.

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A free paper update flier of Game Genie codes, available in stores.

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Each Game Genie model shipped with a booklet full of codes for popular games, and Galoob published updates over time in magazine ads and on paper fliers that were free to take at retail stores.

Using those codes, you could add amazing new features to games (such as invincibility or the ability to fly), or simply make them easier to play. NES Game Genie instructions from the back of the box. These codes injected data between the game cartridge and the system, changing how the game worked and effectively reprogramming it on the fly in a minor way.

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Upon powering up, you saw a screen where you could enter a series of alphanumeric codes. To use one, you first plugged a game cartridge into the Game Genie unit and then plugged both devices into your console. Like a genie of legend, the Game Genie made your wishes come true. Game Genie devices for the Super NES, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, and Game Gear followed. The first Game Genie model worked with the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System and launched in the summer of 1991 for about $50. Game Genie is the brand name for a series of video game enhancement devices developed by Codemasters and sold by Galoob in the U.S.