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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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Random pick · #29
Era Definer#29Why This Game Matters
Super Metroid(1994)
Super Metroid arrived in North America on April 18, 1994 cite, eight years after the NES original and three years after Metroid II on Game Boy, and it didn’t just refine the formula—it codified the template that an entire genre would be named after two decades later. …
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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.
