Newsweek Easter Egg Reports Zombie Invasion

danielkennedy74 writes "Newsweek.com becomes the latest in a long list of sites that will reveal an Easter egg if you enter the Konami code correctly (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, enter). This is a cheat code that appeared in many of Konami's video games, starting around 1986 — my favorite places to use it were Contra and Life Force, 30 lives FTW. The Easter egg was probably included by a developer unbeknownst to the Newsweek powers that be. It's reminiscent of an incident that happened at ESPN last year, involving unicorns."

Comments

Not the only one:

[0100010001010011]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Konami_code_websites goes all the way back to July 2009

Re:Not the only one:

[jDeepbeep]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Konami_code_websites goes all the way back to July 2009

Well, yeah. That's probably why TFS said:

becomes the latest in a long list of sites that .... [snip]

Re:Not the only one:

[Low Ranked Craig]

Code is hosted here if interested: http://code.google.com/p/konami-js/

Re:Not the only one:

[Anonymous Coward]

For those interested - file containing the script;

http://www.newsweek.com/etc/designs/newsweek/lib.js

Just search for "Konami", rest is there.

Re:Enter?

[Phybersyk0]

Jeez man. There's no "START" key on your keyboard. "Enter" is the best approximation you could have. Why do people have to be spoon-fed?

Re:I'm a programmer for a major metro daily...

[Suzuran]

It's reality that most of us are sad.

Re:Anonymous Coward

[TestedDoughnut]

It was working, but it's dead now. Oh well.

it doesn't work

[Anonymous Coward]

i just checked it, it doesn't work