Citations:god mode

English citations of god mode

noun: "a game mode where the player character is invulnerable to damage"

• 1991, id Software, Inc., Commander Keen IV: Secret of the Oracle (Message displayed upon activation of the invulnerability cheat):

  God mode ON

• 1992 June 4, Jeffrey Wiegley, “Wolf3D cheats and god mode?”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games‎^[1] (Usenet), message-ID <l2ruunINN442@phakt.usc.edu>:

  I too would like to know what the "cheat" modes are for wolf3D and how to enter god mode.

• 1992 August 17, Wity Ganda, “Re: Wolf 3D Cannibalism”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games‎^[2] (Usenet), message-ID <1992Aug17.233408.18017@news.iastate.edu>:

  YUCK! I'd rather use the god-mode than eat the skeletons!

• 1992 October 27, 'Stuttering John', “Re: WOLF 3D and more! (spoilers)”, in rec.games.int-fiction‎^[3] (Usenet), message-ID <1992Oct27.015759.26983@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>:

  If you're running the cheat, you can put it in God mode, and just stand there in the doorway and blast him to pieces […]

noun: "a mode of play allowing the player wide control over the game"

• 1987 November 2, Bruce Holloway, “Conquest”, in comp.sources.bugs‎^[4] (Usenet), message-ID <2669@drivax.UUCP>:

  While in "god" mode, it's possible to suddenly jump out of god mode and land as another country - this happened while looking at some diplomacy stuff.

• 1989 July 17, Art Boyne, “More conquer4 bugs”, in comp.sources.games.bugs‎^[5] (Usenet), message-ID <1300005@hplvli.HP.COM>:

  In god mode, I redesignated some sectors owned by the nomads as owned by my nation, then redesignated their trade goods as rich steel, mithral, and gold mines, the redesignated them as goldmines and mines.

noun: "a mode in which a user has wide privileges in a computer system"

• 1982 December 19, 'AWalker@RUTGERS', “VMS protections”, in fa.info-vax‎^[6] (Usenet), message-ID <bnews.ucbvax.370>:

  the concept of SYSPRV and BYPASS always did sound a little redundant to me. After all, God mode is God mode! Replacing system protection with network protection sounds like a good idea.

• 1990 March 12, Rick Troth, “Re: read screen of other user”, in comp.lang.asm370‎^[7] (Usenet), message-ID <9003122235.AA00717@lilac.berkeley.edu>:

  You'd have to perform real I/O to the terminal in question and issue a "Read Buffer" command. Aside from the expected "God mode" privs, you'd have to get around the fact that CP sees the device as "in use".

Non-gaming uses

• 2017 November 6, Jeremy Cohen, “Forget Tanking: Knicks Fans Should Embrace Early Wins”, in Gotham Sports Network‎^[8]:

  Porzingis can’t play in God mode every night… can he? He’s going to have bad shooting nights, he’s going to get into occasional foul trouble, he’ll face tough defenders and he’ll have to learn how to work out of future double-teams.

• 2018 March 21, Emmie Martin, “This $38 million LA mansion has a $450,000 speaker system and was designed by Lenny Kravitz—take a look inside”, in CNBC‎^[9]:

  You're bound to feel like royalty here. "You're in god mode when you're on this property," Branden Williams, co-developer of the property and agent at real estate firm Williams & Williams, tells CNBC.

• 2018 June 1, Mitch Findlay, “Black Thought & 9th Wonder Are In God Mode On "Streams Of Thoughts"”, in HotNewHipHop.com‎^[10]:

  (headline) Black Thought & 9th Wonder Are In God Mode On "Streams Of Thoughts"

• 2018 June 4, Dan Devine, “Three takeaways from Warriors-Cavs Game 2: If LeBron's not in God mode, the Cavs can't get over the hump”, in Yahoo! Sports‎^[11]:

  (headline) If LeBron's not in God mode, the Cavs can't get over the hump

• 2018 April 5, Tristan Jung, “College basketball season in review: The 10 best mid-major games from 2017-18”, in Mid-Major Madness‎^[12]:

  This was the night Fletcher Magee immortalized himself in Wofford history. […] Magee, who had already been in “God Mode” heading into the game, was red-hot.