With achievements and trophies in existence, game developers have, for the most part, removed cheats from video games.īut cheats aren't entirely gone! Since computers and game consoles are so closely linked now, it's rather easy to connect the console's storage medium to a computer and gain access to its data. The days of entering left, right, left, right, up, down, up, down, a, b to cheat your way through a video game are long gone.