The Shark games!

[neorichieb1971]

How many different shark games are there?

Flying shark, fire shark, Sky shark etc?

Are these different games or the same game going under different alias's in different regions?


Thanks for helping me out.

[Zach Keene]

Flying Shark and Sky Shark are the same game (it's also known as Hishousame).

[neorichieb1971]

So where does Fire shark fit into the equation? Prequel-Sequel or just a game resembling the other 2?

[Zach Keene]

Fire Shark is a sequel, yes.

AFAIK those are the only two, but then I'm not greatly familiar with the series.

[llabnip]

1987 brought us Flying Shark aka Sky Shark aka Hishou Zame. There was an decent NES version as well as Amiga, C64 and Spectrum versions.

1989 brought us Fire Shark aka Same! Same! Same! (I gather Same is the word for Shark - though I'm not sure why Flying Shark is not called Hishou Same?). I think the Genesis is the only system to get this game and it is not related to Flying/Sky Shark above... it plays like a spiritual sequal to Twin Cobra (aka Kyukyoku Tiger).

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[Zach Keene]

(I gather Same is the word for Shark - though I'm not sure why Flying Shark is not called Hishou Same?).

It is, and I'm going to guess that "...zame" is an example of rendaku, where sometimes the first syllable of the second part of a Japanese compound word has a sound change for reasons that aren't necessarily clear even to native speakers.

You can see from my earlier post that I failed.

[neorichieb1971]

Thanks for clearing that up guys.

I have Sky shark PCB and fire shark on the Genesis so I'm already set there then