The History of Console Cheat Devices - How the Game Genie and GameShark Took Over The 90s

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The Game Genie and GameShark made cheating in video games easy for a generation of kids. But they weren’t just for cheats, they could uncover secrets of game development that you would never get to see from just cheat codes and glitches. Let’s talk about the history of cheat devices on consoles, how they worked, how they rose in popularity, and fell by the wayside.

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