Flying Shark

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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

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

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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: Hishou Same
LICENSOR: Toaplan

This game was released outside of Japan and the US. It is known as Sky Shark in the US.

Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)

Uncommon - There are 17 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 0 of them are original dedicated machines, 0 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards have been placed in another game cabinet, and 17 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Of the 42,694 video games (3,154 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 14 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records.

Wanted - There is one VAPS member currently looking for this game.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operatos 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. For a clue to value, compare how many people have this game vs. how many people want this game and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range.

Technical

This is a direct ROM swap for Sky Shark, 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 multi-plane PCB. One of the custom ICs, C-01, gets very warm while operating, but this is normal.

CPU: 68000, Z80 and 320C10
SOUND: YM-3812

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Legacy

Flying Shark
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