00:07musica
00:25musica
00:26This is Mattel's 1982 release Shark Shark for the Intellivision game system and as you can see it has some
00:34beautiful artwork on the cartridge box.
00:37Though the labels on the television games are rather sparse.
00:42For whatever reason they usually opted for a text only of the actual cartridge label.
00:48Here we have the gamepad inserts for the keypad and those overlays.
00:55You only really use the top three buttons, number one, two, and three.
00:59And they are for darting. I'll get into that with the gameplay.
01:05Here we have some screenshots of the graphics.
01:08And the instruction manual over there.
01:14I should note that this game is one or two player and the two player mode is simultaneous play.
01:20And that's the real strong point of this game is playing a friend in Shark Shark.
01:25It's a good time to compete against each other for the fish.
01:32Now let me get into what's going on here.
01:35You as player one control that yellow fish in the middle of the screen.
01:38It's moving all around.
01:40And the object is to eat anything that's smaller than you.
01:44Which is a easy concept and it's a lot of fun.
01:49The whole while you're avoiding fish that are bigger than you.
01:52And that pesky shark that just got me.
01:57So you rack up points by eating things.
02:00And once you hit a thousand points, a thousand point increments, you grow one size bigger.
02:05And you can eat bigger stuff.
02:08Those things at the bottom of the screen jumping around.
02:12One's a lobster and they have a crab that comes by once in a while.
02:15And you can eat them but they're rather difficult.
02:17You have to eat them when they're falling back to the ground after they jump.
02:21Which is rather tough.
02:23But as the levels progress, they jump higher.
02:26So it gets a little easier to eat them.
02:36Now you might have noticed by now that this game is rather sparse in sound effects.
02:40There's some bubbles on the screen.
02:42And those bubbles if you swim through them actually slow you up a bit and they foul you up.
02:46So you want to avoid them.
02:48You get kind of tangled in the bubbles.
02:50And there's an ominous tone that plays when the shark enters the screen.
02:54And there's a little blip noise that's made when you eat a fish.
02:58Or a fish eats you.
03:00Otherwise there's no real sound in the game.
03:02There's no soundtrack per se.
03:04Until the end of the game.
03:06But we'll get to that later.
03:10Now on the overlay like I showed you earlier.
03:12There are three different dart speeds.
03:15One, two, and three.
03:17And I could not discern the difference between either of them.
03:22Any of them.
03:23One, two, or three.
03:24They all seem to do pretty much the same thing when I tested them out.
03:28But I did notice that the darting worked sporadically.
03:33I couldn't tell if it was just a bad button on the keypad of the Intellivision controller.
03:40Or if there's some kind of rhyme or reason to it.
03:43Like you only get like three darts per life or something.
03:47I couldn't figure it out.
03:49It didn't seem to be the case.
03:50That's what I thought at first.
03:51But then playing later on I managed to dart like four or five times in one life.
03:58And then it just stopped working.
03:59So I don't know if there's some kind of timer or something.
04:01I don't know.
04:02I couldn't figure that out.
04:10The other thing about gameplay I'd like to note is the buttons on the side of the Intellivision controller.
04:17When you press them in you stop swimming.
04:19So you kind of like hold your position in the water.
04:22Which can be effective because if you don't use that button you kind of just drift in the general direction.
04:28Slightly in whatever way you were traveling.
04:32Oh and I'd like to mention that while you can't eat the shark you can nip at his tail.
04:37And that gives you a lot of points.
04:39If you bite his tail it stuns him for a second.
04:44But you got to get out of the way really quickly after you do that.
04:46Because it'll turn around and eat you really quickly.
04:49So it's a good way to rack up points if you're quick on the draw.
04:59Shark Shark reminds me of a game I someone recently downloaded from Xbox Live.
05:04And that's called Feeding Frenzy.
05:07It has a lot of the same fundamental elements as Feeding Frenzy.
05:12It's a rather relaxing kind of game to play.
05:15You drift around and eat things smaller than you and you grow in size.
05:19And it's somewhat satisfying to play.
05:23Though in Feeding Frenzy there are achievement points you can get.
05:27There are no such achievement points on the Intellivision system.
05:33But you can always pretend there are.
05:34And if you get a high score you can take a picture and hang it on your wall.
05:38And right underneath it achievement point.
05:41And you can brag to your friends that you're the shark shark master.
05:53And here at the end we have a wonderful musical score.
05:56I wondered why they left it for the end.
05:58But it is a, um, does sound rather good for an early game.
06:01They should have left it in the beginning instead of the end I think.
06:04Anyhow, I'm Dami from Classic Games Revisited.
06:07Until next time.
06:14MAigo którą I was working with October 6 was 2018.
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