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Killer Shark

Name: Killer Shark
Manufacturer: Sega
Year: 1972
Type: Arcade
Subtype: Rifle

Class: Wide Release

Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 1
Gameplay: Single
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Sound: Amplified Either (Mono or Stereo)

Cabinet Styles:

  • Upright/Standard
 Killer Shark


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Killer Shark Description

Killer Shark was produced by Sega in 1972.

Sega released 590 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1936.

Other machines made by Sega during the time period Killer Shark was produced include Grand National Race, Invaders, Sea Devil, Air Attack, ProBowler, Dive Bomber, Astrodata fortune teller, Jumbo, Stunt Car, and Derby Day.

Player aims gun at a moving shark to kill it. When the player shoots the shark, it flails around as if electrocuted (with appropriate sound effects) for a few seconds, before the next shark appears. The game is timed. The imagery of the swimming shark was made from a series of still slides on a wheel inside the machine. The wheel ratcheted around in a circle, timed with a strobe. When the player hit the target, it switched over to a different set of images with the shark flailing about bleeding.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

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Upright/Standard

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Killer Shark Census

There are 11,733 members of the Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,235 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 154,680 machines (0 unique titles).

Owned - There are no known instances of this game owned by one of our members.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Killer Shark.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

This game ranks a 2 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

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