Killer Shark
Description
Player aims gun at a moving shark to kill it. When the player shoots the shark, it flails around as if electrocuted (with appropriate sound effects) for a few seconds, before the next shark appears. The game is timed.
The imagery of the swimming shark was made from a series of still slides on a wheel inside the machine. The wheel ratcheted around in a circle, timed with a strobe. When the player hit the target, it switched over to a different set of images with the shark flailing about bleeding.
Killer Shark was produced by Sega in 1972.
Sega released 594 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1960. Sega is based in Japan.
Other machines made by Sega during the time period Killer Shark was produced include: Dive Bomber, Astrodata fortune teller, El Alamein, Super Skill Diga, Jumbo, Air Attack, Invaders, Sea Devil, Grand National Race, and ProBowler
Specs
| Name | Killer Shark |
|---|---|
| Developer | Sega (Japan) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Type | Arcade |
| KLOV/MOG # | 10821 |
| Sub-Type | Rifle |
| Class | Wide Release |
| # Simultaneous Players | 1 |
| # Maximum Players | 1 |
| Game Play | Single |
| Control Panel Layout | Single Player |
| Sound | Amplified Either (Mono or Stereo) |
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Trivia
This game is in the 1975 movie JAWS. It is shown in an arcade on the beach at about an hour into the film. Chief Brody is shown walking past it on his way to the beach.
VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Killer Shark Census
There are 15,364 members of the Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,708 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 167,365 machines (7,023 unique titles).
Very rare - There are no known instances of this game owned by one of our active members.
Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Killer Shark.
This game ranks a 2 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
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