Freak Out Your Coworkers With Google Docs Konami Code

The Konami Code (if you don’t know it, then shame on you!) has long been part of geek lore. But now it can be part of your work day too: Google has added a new, pranktastic easter egg to Docs.

Just enter up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A and then enter, and behold. I was kind of hoping for a Contra emulator, but oh well – still neat!

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(12 Comments)
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    Martin

    Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 2:10 PM

    Fair enough to write about an easter egg, but WHAT DOES IT DO?

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      nells

      Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 12:39 AM

      It rotates the document itself 180 degrees (i.e it is flipped horizontally. Do it again to revert back to normal.

      Its pretty cool to trick someone with.

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      Matt

      Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 8:46 AM

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPGtQtsMRz4&hd=1

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      edoC imanoK

      Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 10:52 AM

      Try it and find out, google is your fiend, or let me google that for you …

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      Karl von Muller

      Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 12:35 PM

      Try it out..

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      Edward W Cook

      Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 7:12 PM

      It just turns it upside down – good trick to freak someone at the office over.

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      Yanni M

      Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 7:29 PM

      It makes the page ho back-to-front

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    Jubbin Grewal

    Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 9:38 PM

    It didn’t work for me :(

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    Fred

    Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 11:45 PM

    Don’t know what it’s supposed to do, but it does nothing on an empty document, just get ‘BA’. Up, down, right and left are the arrow keys on the keyboard, right? I want to see the magiG!

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    Todd Drexel

    Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 12:27 PM

    This is the same konami code which you can do on Facebook. Which will add Light flares on the page whenever you scroll up and down etc.

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    andronicus

    Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 12:28 PM

    yeah i agree. what does it do? i cant be bothered finding out things for myself!!! thats what i have the internet for. so others can do it and i can read about it.

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    bazza

    Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 7:49 PM

    plenty more here:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Konami_code_websites

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