“No gimmicks! No tricks! You don’t pay … ‘till 1996!”
— ad for a furniture store when I was growing up
6922251 x 8 = 55378008
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas was the mnemonic when Pluto was still a planet. I suppose not totally obsolete but I find myself ending at “nine” instead of something you’d serve beginning with N.
I can recite the names of the Books of the New Testament in the bible by heart. I’m not even Christian.
The password to reach Mike Tyson / Mr dream in Punch-Out! is 007-373-5963. Burned into my brain.
Boolprop testingcheatsenabled true/false
Testingcheatsenabled true
And finally testingcheats true
The entire shortening of the Sims cheat codes.
Also motherlode.
RRTANGENTABACUS
I know it primarily as a cheat code in Star Wars pod racer on N64, but I’ve seen it in other games too, and even referenced in different non-gaming contexts. I still don’t really know what it means.
When I was a kid I remembered it as “RR-Tan-Genta-Bacus”. It wasn’t until decades later I realised it is real words “tangent”, “abacus”.
D U L L A R D
IDKFA & IDDQD and off you go. Lots of childhood memories.
If you put as your name grm3110 in NBA jam you can play as death
Adjusting a carburetor.
I was never really good at it, I never actually went through with selling my soul to Satan to gain true knowledge of that black art.
If that’s your idea if fun, I can recommend the game My Summer Car. It’s basically a simulator for Finnish country life in the 90’s.
You spend most of your time drinking, going to the sauna, driving a crappy old Datsun hatchback (which you first have to rebuild in excruciating detail) down country roads, and adjusting your car’s carburetor.Sounds like how I spent my summers in Canada, but substitute a Chevette hatchback and a hottub.
I looked up a gameplay series, and there is so much minutia remining me of Norwegian country life as well. The ticketing machine on the bus is exactly as I remember it from the 90’s.
4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42
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Morse code. Did a science project back in middle school with wires, buzzers and tappers on a board. Then I taught it to my boy scout troop for a badge. Then lost some of it before joining the army in communications (as well as a ton of other outdated means of communication) and then in Iraq, me and another commo guy wired up our rooms for it so we could talk shit about our leadership even if they were in the room. Anyways, after working with it that many times over a stretched out time frame, I’ll never forget that. Or the phonetic alphabet.
It’s not exactly obsolete. The HAMs use it from time to time.
Donkey kong country on SNES
B A R R A L on the save game selection menu
Morrowind on the original Xbox came with cheat codes. Put the cursor over the health, magicka, or fatigue bar, enter the codes with the black and white buttons then hold A until the bar fills. If you close the menu before you let go of A, it will continue to refill constantly until you open your menu again.
Health: B, W, B, B, B, A
Magicka: B, W, W, B, W, A
Fatigue: B, B, W, W, B, A
You could actually use the magicka code for all 3, but I liked that there were 3 different codes.
