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GameShark Labs
A sculptural obsidian shark charging through a sky-blue digital ocean.

Rebuilding a 30-year brand

For the people who never stopped playing the classics.

A vault, a device, and a book, built by players who actually finished the games.

SharkVault opens in SeptemberExplore the products

Backed by 1,165 Kickstarter founders · $109,040 raised, 1,090% funded.

Top 500
Retro games catalogued
1,300
Guide sections published
Atari → PS2
Era of coverage
100%
Original, verified content

Three ways in

A vault, a device, and a book.

One canon of player ingenuity (cheat codes, exploits, glitches, and lore) delivered three ways.

The idea

The whole culture of the cheat-device era, set down properly.

Every competitor organizes retro content by genre or community consensus. None apply a systematic lens to the full spectrum of player ingenuity. We make that lens explicit — and build the tools to live in it.

01 · The Vault

SharkVault

Original, completionist-verified guides for the Top 500: searchable, cited, legal by design.

02 · The Device

RetroShark

Hardware that reads the cartridge, not your inputs, and surfaces the right code the moment you need it.

03 · The Book

The Compendium

A definitive hardcover of the codes, the devices, and the schoolyard lore. Built to outlive your console.

GameShark Labs · AI

AI in service of the games we grew up with.

We use AI where it earns the spot, drafting guides and indexing thousands of codes. We write the human parts by hand.

See how we use AI (opens in a new tab)
The GameShark Labs shark-fin mark as an obsidian sculpture with a sky-blue edge glow.

Who’s building it

Players who finished the games.

Follow along

We’re building this in the open.

Shark Tips, prototype footage, and the codes as we verify them, posted as we go. Two places to find us, depending on what you’re here for.

GameShark Labs

The official accounts. Company news, product releases, and the build-in-public log.

GameShark Now Community

Where the retro community actually hangs out: deep-dives, drops, and day-to-day conversation. Run alongside the official channels, not in place of them.