Lost In Translation/Fire Shark

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Fire Shark
Manufacturer	Toaplan
Released	1990
Control Method	8-way Joystick 2 Button(s)
Main CPU	68000 (@ 10.000 MHz)
Sound CPU	Mono YM3812 (@ 3.500 MHz)
Video Details	Raster (Vertical) 320 x 240 pixels 60.00 Hz 2,048 Palette colours
Screens	1
ROM Info	15 ROMs 1,409,088 bytes (1.34 MiB)
MAME ID	fireshrk · samesam2 · samesame

About The Game

Fire Shark is a vertically scrolling shoot-em-up arcade video game.

Trivia

Licensed to Romstar for USA distribution.

This game is known in Japan as "Same! Same! Same!".

Updates

The Japanese version, "Same! Same! Same!" is different :

• You can only play one player at a time.
• When you get hit you start over a bit behind where you left off.

Tips and tricks

• Hidden Functions : If the 'Invulnerability dipswitches' is enabled, you are invulnerable but you may also 'Pause' the game with P2 Start and restart with P1 Start.

Series

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

Staff

Music Created By

Masanory Yuge

Cabinet and Artwork

• 

  Fire Shark cabinet.

• 

  Fire Shark flyer.

Ports

Consoles

Sega Mega Drive (1990)

Soundtrack Releases

Album Name	Catalogue No.	Released	Publisher	Comments
Shark! Shark! Shark!	PCCB-00007	1989-10-21	Pony Canyon/Scitron	CD version.

References

The contents of this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
The sources used include MAME (version 0.113u2) and history.dat (revision 1.28 - 2008-10-18).
Please see http://www.arcade-history.com for credits.