How unfortunate - I'm cheating or not?

From the old days of the coleco and the Atari, the game was the game. For a developer it was already beautiful to have design the game itself that many nowadays popular features in a video game were absent.

Todays, video games have evolved, game console are a million times more powerful and player have refined their game. Young kids are born with a joystick and remote in their hands. Still some rely on cheats found in video game to get an edge of the game or their opponent. Is this cheating ? Not really.

Most video games cheats codes are inserted in games by the developer with the only intention of spicing up their video game. Sometimes, cheats inserted in the video games have the sole purpose of bringing a comical element in the video game and are far from giving an advantage to the player using this cheats.

Some cheat codes are inserted to create a buzz around a game. The more people find the hidden cheats, the more they talk about it.

And lastly, cheats codes are sometimes uses by some skilled player to get the maximum skills against an opponent.

This is certainly not cheating, it's using the inner function of the games. This completely differs from modifying and the game from what it is originally designed for. This is true cheating and dishonest.

So, don't be afraid to use those video games cheats codes and have fun. Many websites are offering a very detailed listing of multiple video games cheat codes. Some specialized on a specific console while some are multi-platforms sites that list many cheats codes. Some even have more then 40000 cheats codes.