Flying Shark, the Video Game by Toaplan Co., Ltd. [Tokyo, Japan]

Type of the machine : Video Game
Flying Shark © 1987 Toaplan.

A vertically scrolling shoot-em-up in which the player pilots a bi-plane and must destroy enemy land, air, and naval craft across a variety of environments.

Some enemy aircraft waves produce bonuses when shot down, such as weapon power-ups, point bonuses, and extra lives. Each stage begins and ends with an airport runway and every time the player lands on a runway at the completion of a stage, the amount of remaining player bombs are multiplied by 3,000 points per bomb and added to the player's score. All bombs are replenished for the start of the next stage.

Game ID : TP-007
Prom Stickers : B02 / FS

Main CPU : 68000 (@ 7 Mhz), Z80 (@ 3.5 Mhz), TMS32010 (@ 3.5 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM3812 (@ 3.5 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 240 x 320 pixels
Screen refresh : 54.88 Hz
Palette colors : 1792

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2

Released in March 1987.

Licensed to Taito.

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Kyukyoku Tiger : G.S.M Taito 2 - D28B0008) on 21/11/1988.

This game is known in Japan as "Hishou Zame" and in US as "Sky Shark".

1. Flying Shark (1987)
2. Fighting Hawk (1988)
3. Fire Shark! (1990)

Music and sound created by : Tatsuya Uemura

Consoles :

Fujitsu FM Towns (1993 "Hishou Zame" - Ving)
Nintendo NES ("Sky Shark")

Computers :

Amstrad CPC (1987)
Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1987)
Atari ST (1988)
Commodore Amiga (1988)
Sharp X68000 (1991)
Commodore C64

Game's rom.