Game trick usually refers to the act of cheating in a game to make the play easier or as a shortcut to success. The methods or steps followed to make a game difficult for a player and cut down the chances for winning can also be referred as game trick. In a legal way, game trick is usually practiced by the game developers. It is always kept as secret which is known only to the person who tricked the game.
The tricks or cheatings can be implemented by a person who is involved in the development of game or by a third party or hard ware. Cheat codes are commonly used to affect a game play while developing. This can be done by a game trainer or game developers. A cheat cartridge is used to trick on a game using hardware method.
Placing game tricks has their own benefits as well as disadvantages. The cheat codes placed by game developers are used for testing the play. This secret usually reveals the easier method to win the game. This way of testing using cheat codes improves the quality of game.
As far as there are methods to implement tricks, there are ways to reveal the cheatings also. Manic miner is such a method using which cheat code in a game can be found easily. You just need to type the number, 6031769 in order to find the mode of cheating used.
POKE statements are another way of cheating video games. In this method, the programme is rewritten before launching it. The memory addresses are changed in order to trick and thus attain problems like immunity, invisibility and many more.
Commodore64 and ZX spectrum are the two famous cheat cartridges that are usually used to freeze a running game. This also supports entering of poke statements in between and resumes the game.
