In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni.
Latin palindrome, roughly “we enter the circle at night and are consumed by fire”.
V21 is the shortcut to call for a medic in Wolfenstein Enemy Territory
Don’t remember if any other titles used it, but BARACUDA on Sonic 3D Blast on Genesis/Mega Drive for level select.
Not sure if it works for the other versions or on any of the collection games it’s included in, though.
CTO4, SAP VC characteristics transaction code
ATH1 ATH0
“No gimmicks! No tricks! You don’t pay … ‘till 1996!”
— ad for a furniture store when I was growing up
6922251 x 8 = 55378008
Is this obselete? Did multiplication and boobies disappear?
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.
Boolprop testingcheatsenabled true/false
Testingcheatsenabled true
And finally testingcheats true
The entire shortening of the Sims cheat codes.
Also motherlode.
The password to reach Mike Tyson / Mr dream in Punch-Out! is 007-373-5963. Burned into my brain.
I can recite the names of the Books of the New Testament in the bible by heart. I’m not even Christian.
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”.
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.
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 Then lost some of it before joining the army in communications (as well as a ton of other outdated means of communication) and then in Iraq, me and another commo guy wired up our rooms for it so we could talk shit about our leadership even if they were in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.
