12 Facts About Game Genie

Game Genie is a line of video game cheat cartridges originally designed by Codemasters, sold by Camerica and Galoob.

Five million units of the original Game Genie products were sold worldwide, and most video game console emulators feature Game Genie code support.

Emulators that have Game Genie support allow a near-unlimited number of codes to be entered whereas the actual products have an upper and lower limit, between three and six codes.

The Game Genie brand was later revived by the company Hyperkin, who released cheat systems for newer consoles.

Original Game Genie systems were pass-through devices that attached between a cartridge and the console.

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Game Genie was packaged with a booklet of codes that could be used across various games.

Therefore, the Game Genie was designed in such a way that it did not need to be depressed in order to start the game.

Game Genie's shape made it difficult to insert into a New-Style NES without applying excessive force.

Game Gear version of the Game Genie had a more complicated design than those for other systems.

Nintendo sued Galoob in the case Galoob v Nintendo, claiming that the Game Genie created derivative works in violation of copyright law.

Around the time of the lawsuit from Galoob, Nintendo tried to use other methods to thwart the Game Genie, using ROM checksum in later titles intended to detect the cheat modifications.

Later versions of the Game Genie had the ability to hide Genie modifications from checksum routines.