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Sky Shark

Description

Take your plane on a bombing run over land and sea. Overhead view of plane with easily ten or twenty enemies on screen and firing at you at any time. Blow open buildings to reveal hidden tanks before they can come outside and shoot at you.

Sky Shark was produced by Romstar in 1987.

Romstar released 9 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1987. Romstar was based in United States.

Other machines made by Romstar during the time period Sky Shark was produced include: Time Soldiers, Cal .50 - Caliber Fifty, Championship Bowling, Down Town, and Fire Shark

Specs

Name	Sky Shark
Developer	Romstar (United States)
Year	1987
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9574
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Scrolling Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	JAMMA
Dipswitch Settings	Sky Shark Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player Ambidextrous
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 2 - FireBomb
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard Cabaret/Mini
Control Panel	Sky Shark Control Panel Image

Game Play

A standard vertical shoot-em-up that is very playable with nice colorful graphics and natty music. Pickup power-ups that add cannons to your weaponry. Semi-Bosses near the end of levels.

Sky Shark KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.85 (1 vote)

Fun Factor: 4.20

Overall Like	5.00
Fun (Social)	3.00
Fun (Solo)	5.00
Collector Desire	3.00

Technical Rating: 3.50

Gameplay	4.00
Graphics	3.00
Originality	2.00
Sound/Music	5.00

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Conversion

This game uses the same boardset as ITwin CobraI. It can be converted into this game by switching the ROM sets.

Miscellaneous

COPY OF IHishou SameIBRLICENSOR TaitoToaplanPThis game was licensed to Romstar for distribution in the US. It is known as IFlying SharkI in all other countries except Japan.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Sky Shark Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / 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 Common - There are 119 known instances of this machine owned by Sky Shark collectors who are active members. Of these, 12 of them are original dedicated machines. 25 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 82 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with a Sky Shark machines for sale. There are 4 active VAPS members with a Sky Shark circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Sky Shark. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Sky Shark circuit board set.

This game ranks a 36 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

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.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Alternate Cabinet Images

The small, dedicated cabinet image provided by Arcade Alex is supposedly from Australia.

Flyers

Manuals

Pinout and DIP Switch Settings - Sky Shark Manual — **Pinout and DIP Switch Settings**
(1 page, 148 kB File)

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