History of video games/Cheating

1980s
In 1985 the Konami Code is introduced to help test Gradius, later finding it's way into other games and products as a code to activate cheats or easter eggs.

2000s
In May 2002 the television show Cheat! begins airing on the G4 network, sharing video game cheats on TV.

Pokémon Go
In March 2016 the popular game Pokémon Go begins to use OpenStreetMap, an open source map anyone can edit, as a data source. Players quickly discover that changes in OpenStreetMap affect Pokémon Go gameplay. Vandalism of the map for in game advantage is quickly countered by users engaging in anti vandalism activities. As a result of vandalism on an open dataset, researchers were able to analyze such vandalism in depth.