Shark Attack © 1981 Pacific Novelty.
Divers come out from nowhere to hunt you down. But you're a shark, and a hungry one at that. So... DINNERTIME! (Just watch out for those harpoons).
Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 192 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 16
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2 (MUNCH, THRUST)
Released in March 1981. Originally named 'Deep Death'.
This game has a cassette that plays a loop. The loop lasts forty-five seconds, and consists of four voices (three male, one female) looking for, reacting to and trying to catch a shark. There's also some general references to diving on the tape.
1st 4 divers eaten | 50 points each. |
5th diver | 300 points. |
6th-8th divers | 100 points. |
9th diver | 500 points. |
10th-12th divers | 200 points. |
13th diver | 700 points. |
14th-16th divers | 300 points. |
17th diver | 900 points. |
18th-20th diver | 400 points. |
21st diver | 1,300 points. |
22nd-24th diver | 500 points. |
25th diver | 1,750 points. |
26-28th diver | 750 points. |
Upon eating the twenty-eighth diver you get an extra shark and the scoring starts over at 50 points. |
Game's ROM.
Machine's picture.