ORIGINALLY AIRED: 8/30/2005

Classic Cheat!

Episode #5016

Cheat's going retro! From Peahats to Goombas to Rippers, we'll show you how to take all of these classic baddies down a peg. Take a ride on the WABAC machine, as we dissect classic Nintendo games that frustrated 8 bit gamers. From Mario's mushroom addiction in Super Mario Bros. to Link's heroic acts of bravery in The Legend of Zelda, you'll learn all of the secrets and find the easter eggs that made them household names! Find out which NES games had the best cheats and secrets to baffle adolescent gamers in the late eighties. Then go a couple of rounds with your favorite daft boxer in Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! Finally, take a walk down memory lane as we uncover the history of the infamous Konami code.