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Related but a nod from a toy engineer to parents: my daughter had a toy baby gamepad when she was little. The D-pad and four buttons made different sounds when pressed. I decided to try the konami code (up up down down left right left right b a) and it went through a special sound sequence then said, "you win!"

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I have this exact toy for my daughter I think. I would tinker with it a bit, I think just the fact that you hit a certain set of the buttons was enough on its own - I’d have to find the toy to test but I have heard the same voice stab but didn’t do the Konami code.

Sorry to be a spoilsport! :)

Could be that it takes any 10 buttons in a row, but there's a specific sequence of sounds that it does when you enter it, along with "you win!" that I don't recall happening with random keypresses. It's been a while, though.

I had my son's lying around and it definitely happens consistently with the konami code in both the 'learning' and 'playing' modes.

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