Flying Shark

Manufacturer: Taito
Year: 1987
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Scrolling Shooter
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

Orientation: Vertical
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: JAMMA
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 2 [Fire|Bomb]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

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Flying Shark Description

A vertical scrolling shooter where you fly a biplane, like a Sopwith Camel, equipped with two cannons and smart bombs. You must fly from each runway to the next over jungle, sea and desert destroying tanks, planes and ships.

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Game Play

Fairly standard vertical shoot-em-up, 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.

Miscellaneous

COPY OF IHishou SameIBRLICENSOR ToaplanPThis game was released outside of Japan and the US. It is known as ISky SharkI in the US.

CAPS/VAPS Arcade Census

There are 6,454 members of the Classic Arcade Preservation Society / Video Arcade Preservation Society, 3,704 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 60,808 machines (3,615 unique titles).

Common - There are 29 known instances of this machine owned by Flying Shark collectors. Of these, 29 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

This game ranks a 18 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Wanted - No members have added this machine to their wish list. Please note that many collectors are not members or do not list their desires here, and it is likely that a number of collectors might purchase this machine if offered it at the right price.

This game ranks a 0 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

For Sale - There is one VAPS member with an extra Flying Shark circuit board for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them even though arcade operators might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses, while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up.
Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector.
In particular, since VAPS started out focusing on videogames, statistics for other types of machines should not (yet) be an indication of scarcity.
For a clue to value, look at absolute numbers of owners and potential owners above, compare a ratio of how many people want this game vs. how many people have this game (0%) and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range.

Technical

This is a direct ROM swap for ISky SharkI, except for the program ROMs which look for some special hardware. The graphics for the two games are identical except for the wording on the name banner. The board is a pain to desolder ICs from since it is a multiplane PCB. One of the custom ICs, C01, gets very warm while operating, but this is normal.PCPU 68000, Z80 and 320C10BRSOUND YM3812

Legacy

Flying Shark
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