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
Name | Sky Shark |
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Developer | Romstar (United States) |
Year | 1987 |
Type | Videogame |
KLOV/MOG # | 9574 |
Class | Wide Release |
Genre | Shooting Vehicle |
Shooting Vehicle | Scrolling |
Monitor |
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Conversion Class | JAMMA |
Dipswitch Settings | |
# Simultaneous Players | 1 |
# Maximum Players | 2 |
Game Play | Alternating |
Control Panel Layout | Single Player Ambidextrous |
Controls |
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Sound | Amplified Mono (one channel) |
Cabinet Styles |
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Control Panel | Sky Shark Control Panel Image |
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.
Overall Like |
5.00 |
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Fun (Social) | 3.00 |
Fun (Solo) | 5.00 |
Collector Desire | 3.00 |
Gameplay | 4.00 |
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Graphics | 3.00 |
Originality | 2.00 |
Sound/Music | 5.00 |
Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score.
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This game uses the same boardset as ITwin CobraI. It can be converted into this game by switching the ROM sets.
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.
There are 15,298 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,680 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 167,066 machines (7,004 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.
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The small, dedicated cabinet image provided by Arcade Alex is supposedly from Australia.
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Year | Count | Median $ | Average $ |
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2015 | 1 | 230.00 | 230.00 |
All Years | 1 | 230.00 | 230.00 |