GameShark

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GameShark is the brand name of a line of video game cheat cartridges and other products for a variety of console video game systems and Windows based computers. Currently, the brand name is owned by Mad Catz, who actively market GameShark products for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Xbox, Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance (including the SP and Micro models). The GameShark products have never been licensed or endorsed by the manufacturers of the products that they work with. GameShark has been known to glitch games.

Contents 1 Brand history 2 Fall of InterAct 3 All platforms 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Brand history

Currently, the GameShark name is owned by Mad Catz, and the devices only exist to back-up and restore game saves.

[edit] Fall of InterAct

While the Game Boy device was first released, InterAct acquired the rights to sell Datel's Action Replay and Pro Action Replay devices in North America; these devices were sold under the GameShark and GameShark Pro names. InterAct released GameShark devices for the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Saturn, Dreamcast and Nintendo 64. After InterAct's parent company, Recoton, went bankrupt, the rights to the GameShark name were acquired by MadCatz, who relinquished the North American Action Replay distribution rights. Following this, MadCatz sold game save devices under the GameShark name instead of the traditional cheat device, and Datel marketed the Action Replay in North America Action Replay directly.

[edit] All platforms

The GameShark is currently available for these platforms:

• Game Boy Color
• Game Boy Advance
• Game Boy Micro
• Nintendo 64
• Nintendo GameCube
• Nintendo NES
• PlayStation
• PlayStation 2
• PlayStation 3^[1]
• Sega Saturn
• Dreamcast
• Xbox
• Emulators

GameShark is not available for the Xbox 360 because it is prohibited by Microsoft's licensing.^[2]

[edit] See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: GameShark

• GameShark Pro
• Action Replay
• Code Breaker
• Game Genie
• DexDrive
• Multiface
• MaxDrive
• Xploder

[edit] References

• "GameShark Products". Mad Catz. http://www.gameshark.com/products.htm. Retrieved 2006-10-25. 
• "GameShark Duo - for NDS, Game Boy Micro, GBA SP". Mad Catz. http://www.madcatzstore.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=2609&idCategory=13. Retrieved 2006-10-26. 

1. ^ GameShark® Movie Player & Media Manager™ for PS3 & PSP
2. ^ [1]