Game History With Jonny 8-Bit
Explore researched video game history, arcade legends, console stories, myths, records, cheats, and creator breakthroughs with Stangmedia host Jonny 8-Bit.
START EXPLORING ↓
Games have stories beyond the screen
Jonny 8-Bit is the face of Stangmedia’s growing editorial and video library. Explore game history now, followed by classic tips, cheats, records, creator stories, and future videos.
History categories
Gaming Origins
The experiments, laboratories, and first playable ideas that started the medium.
02 · 9 STORIESArcade Legends
The machines, designers, characters, and communities that defined the arcade.
03 · 9 STORIESConsole History
The deals, rivalries, launches, and technology that moved games into living rooms.
04 · 7 STORIESHandheld History
Portable hardware, landmark releases, and the stories players carried everywhere.
05 · 8 STORIESHidden Stories & Myths
Famous legends carefully separated into what happened, what changed, and what remains uncertain.
06 · 6 STORIESTips, Tricks & Cheats
Classic strategies, secret codes, techniques, and the culture of sharing discoveries.
07 · 7 STORIESRecords & Competitive Gaming
High scores, tournaments, speedruns, world records, and the people who pushed games further.
08 · 8 STORIESCreator & Technology Stories
The artists, engineers, constraints, and breakthroughs behind memorable games and hardware.
Find a story
Tips, Tricks & Cheats
6 stories · Page 1 of 1
How Super Mario Bros. Warp Zones Changed Speed and Exploration
The fastest route through the Mushroom Kingdom begins by refusing to follow the obvious path.
READ THE STORY →
IDDQD and IDKFA: How Doom Cheat Codes Entered Gaming Culture
Five typed letters could turn a punishing demon maze into a laboratory for exploration and experimentation.
READ THE STORY →
Minus World: The Super Mario Bros. Glitch That Became a Legend
The most famous negative number in gaming is really a blank space, a normal dash, and a warp pipe using the wrong destination.
READ THE STORY →
The Blood Code That Changed Mortal Kombat on Genesis
A short controller sequence turned a platform-policy compromise into one of the era’s best-known playground secrets.
READ THE STORY →
The Game Genie Legal Battle That Helped Define Modding
A plastic cartridge adapter gave Mario new powers—and forced a federal court to decide whether changing a purchased game created a new copyrighted work.
READ THE STORY →
The Konami Code: From Debug Tool to Gaming Folklore
A programmer's private shortcut escaped into a retail game, rescued countless Contra runs, and became a sequence players could recognize anywhere.
READ THE STORY →