Genre(s) Scrolling shooter Initial release date 1987 | Cabinet Upright Composer Tatsuya Uemura | |
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Mode(s) Up to 2 players, alternating turns Display Vertical, Raster, standard resolution Platforms Arcade game, Nintendo Entertainment System Developers Toaplan, Kaneko, Software Creations, Graftgold, Images Software Ltd. Publishers Taito, Romstar, Kaneko, Ving, Ving Co., Ltd., Firebird Software Ltd. Similar Toaplan games, Shoot 'em up games | ||
Flying shark area 1 2 1987 taito mame retro arcade games
Flying Shark (飛翔鮫, Hishōzame), released in North America as Sky Shark, is a 1987 vertical scrolling shooter arcade game developed by Toaplan and published by Taito in Japan, Electrocoin in the United Kingdom, Model Racing in Italy, and Romstar in North America.
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- Flying shark area 1 2 1987 taito mame retro arcade games
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- Gameplay
- Conversions
- References
In 1989, the game received a sequel titled Fire Shark.
Flying shark area 3 4 1987 taito mame retro arcade games
Gameplay
Piloting a biplane, the player takes out enemy land, air, and naval craft across various environments. Certain waves of enemy airplanes produce bonuses when shot down, such as powerups, point bonuses, and extra lives. Each stage begins and ends at a runway, and every time the player lands at a runway beyond the first takeoff, the amount of bombs multiply 3,000 points to the player's total score. The player gets 3 bombs at the start of each stage (or death). The game has five stages and then it loops from stage two indefinitely.
Conversions
This game was converted to the Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, X68000, FM Towns, and the Nintendo Entertainment System. The NES version of the game was Tim Follin's first composed soundtrack on the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Most of the computer conversions were only released in Europe or North America. The NES port is also a North American exclusive.