Battle Shark

Description

Shoot approaching enemy planes with a machine gun.

Battle Shark was produced by Nintendo in 1978.

Nintendo released 106 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1970. Nintendo was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Nintendo during the time period Battle Shark was produced include: Wild Gunman (1974), Shooting Trainer, Wild Gunman - Shooting Trainer, Sky Hawk, Computer Othello, Block Fiber, Space Launcher, Head On N, and Monkey Magic

Specs

Name	Battle Shark
Developer	Nintendo (Japan)
Year	1978
Type	Arcade
KLOV/MOG #	7050
Sub-Type	Electro-Mechanical
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	16mm Film Projector
Conversion Class	unique
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	1
Game Play	Single
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Gun: Positional with trigger
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

This game is quite amazing, not for the gameplay, but for its 16mm film projector. The film is running on several rollers and is a big loop. The film consists of two halves. The upper portion with the gameplay (planes) is thrown via a mirror on the screen. The lower portion has black and white target areas. This area is being projected via another mirror on a phototrans. The machine gun has a lamp inside the cab aiming through the targets. Simple but efficient.

Battle Shark KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

Cabinet Information

The entirely metal cabinet is painted red and has metal serial number plates, even for the transformer. It is about twice as deep as standard cabinets and a little taller. The sides contain white graphics of planes. It is a beautiful piece of machinery from Nintendo.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Battle Shark Census

There are 15,264 members of the Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Very rare - There are no known instances of this game owned by one of our active members.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

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Technical

The small PCB handles coins and the targeting. There are four relays which handle input and output. Otherwise the game is purely mechanical.

Manuals

Battle Shark - Service Instruction - Battle Shark Manual — **Battle Shark - Service Instruction**
(60 pages, 8.5 MB File)

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