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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
1,728
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 — surfacing 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, indexing thousands of codes — and 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.