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The strategy guides you wish GameFAQs had written. Cheat codes, glitches, easter eggs, and the lore that grew up around the canon of classic and retro games — Atari through PS2.
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Sections published
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Era Definer#35Why This Game Matters
Super Smash Bros.(1999)
Super Smash Bros. arrived in January 1999 as HAL Laboratory’s wildly improbable pitch: take Nintendo’s mascots, strip out health bars and complex combo systems, and make a party-friendly brawler where the goal is to knock opponents off platforms instead of draining life. Masahiro Sakurai’s design philosophy—accessible enough for casual players, deep enough for competitive obsessives—created a genre unto itself. …
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Original content
Not scraped. Not regurgitated. Written by a SharkVault editorial AI grounded in human-curated facts files — every code, glitch, and easter egg cross-verified.
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Era-faithful voice
Reads like a coffee-table book by someone who ran the cheat-code BBS. Knowledgeable, irreverent, deeply versed in the cheat-device culture that grew up around these games.
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The full canon
Hall of Fame is shipping first. Then Era Definers, Canon Completers, and Deep Cuts — 100 ranked, with 500 in the long-term canon. Searchable, mobile, ad-free.
