The Konami Code. You’ve seen it for years, dialed it in on your favorite emulators uh, vintage consoles, and the recent resurrection of the code all over the web has plucked at our nostalgic heart strings – even going so far as to make us grudgingly accept a new lease on the life of the dreaded lens flare effect.

The Code, as it is officially accepted:

…followed, of course, by hitting START if you’re playing Contra. (though some of us have sworn a blood oath from our childhood days that there’s an extra B, A in there and then SELECT, START. It’s superstition, I know.)

Not too long ago, KonamiCodeSites.com reworked their page to accept the code in a form that works with iPhone gestures. Their version goes something like this:

(SWIPE) UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT

That’s all well and good, but that’s a website, and I do games. I also know there are plenty of people out there creating games on Windows Phone 7 using the XNA Game Studio 4.0 Beta that deserve to have the code for themselves. So I figured I might as well throw some code together and present – for your consideration, the Konami Code for WP7 and XNA.

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