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Game Genie is a video game enhancer that exists for a number of older consoles including the NES (non top-loader or the top-loader with a special adapter), SNES, Game Boy, Sega Genesis and Game Gear. Back in the day, when you bought the sealed product at a store, you would get the Game Genie itself and a book of codes for various games. These codes aren’t the kind that you find in Nintendo Power’s Classified Information section however. Game Genie codes are more along the lines of programming text. These codes can give you infinite lives, more energy or even cause odd effects such as the ability to fly over an entire level with a super jump. In each book included with the product, there is a list of games that you can input codes for. Back then, if the book didn’t have codes for a certain game you would be hard-pressed to find it. Nowadays with the internet and code hackers galore, you won’t run into that problem so much. Your chances of finding codes for the games you want is pretty high in this day and age.
Once you connect a cart to the Game Genie and put it in the system, a startup screen appears with blank spaces, text used for entering codes and a selecting cursor. After finding the game you want to play in the codebook (or online), you can enter some of the codes provided in the blank spaces with the selecting cursor. The original Game Genie for the NES had slots for three separate codes or “three wishes”, which is where I’m guessing the Genie got it’s name. Later on down the road, the Genies for other consoles would have more slots for more codes. Not a bad addition at all. You won’t hear any complaints from me that’s for sure. Game Genie is great for just messing around or if you are dying to see the ending of a game you just can’t seem to conquer.

Description

Game Genie is a video game enhancer that exists for a number of older consoles including the NES (non top-loader or the top-loader with a special adapter), SNES, Game Boy, Sega Genesis and Game Gear. Back in the day, when you bought the sealed product at a store, you would get the Game Genie itself and a book of codes for various games. These codes aren’t the kind that you find in Nintendo Power’s Classified Information section however. Game Genie codes are more along the lines of programming text. These codes can give you infinite lives, more energy or even cause odd effects such as the ability to fly over an entire level with a super jump. In each book included with the product, there is a list of games that you can input codes for. Back then, if the book didn’t have codes for a certain game you would be hard-pressed to find it. Nowadays with the internet and code hackers galore, you won’t run into that problem so much. Your chances of finding codes for the games you want is pretty high in this day and age.
Once you connect a cart to the Game Genie and put it in the system, a startup screen appears with blank spaces, text used for entering codes and a selecting cursor. After finding the game you want to play in the codebook (or online), you can enter some of the codes provided in the blank spaces with the selecting cursor. The original Game Genie for the NES had slots for three separate codes or “three wishes”, which is where I’m guessing the Genie got it’s name. Later on down the road, the Genies for other consoles would have more slots for more codes. Not a bad addition at all. You won’t hear any complaints from me that’s for sure. Game Genie is great for just messing around or if you are dying to see the ending of a game you just can’t seem to conquer.