Fire Shark (Arcade) - 1 Credit Challenge
2In this video, I'm doing a 1 Credit Challenge of a game on a brand new version of MAME. That game is: Fire Shark for the Arcade. This game was developed and published by Toaplan, it was released in 1989. Fire Shark was ported to the Sega Mega Drive (aka Genesis) a year later. Fire Shark is a military-themed vertically scrolling shoot 'em up game reminiscent of 1942, where players take control of the titular biplane through ten increasingly difficult levels in order to defeat an assortment of enemy forces forces like tanks, battleships, kamikaze monoplanes and artillery from the mysterious Strange Fleet armada as the main objective. The game plays similarly like its predecessor, as players control their craft over a constantly scrolling background and the scenery never stops moving until an airport is reached. Players have two weapons at their disposal: the standard shot that travels a max distance of half the screen's height and bombs capable of obliterating any enemy caught within its blast radius. There are three types of weapons to pick up that appear as colored icons by destroying zeppelins: a wide shot, a laser beam and a flamethrower. There are also other items like "S" icons that increases the overall speed, "B" icons that acts as extra bomb stocks, "P" icons and 1UPs on rare occasions. By acquiring three "P" icons in a row, players increase their plane's firepower to one level, with the third power level being the highest. Once the plane is fully powered up, grabbing additional icons grants extra points instead. Reaching high-scores is also crucial to obtain extra lives, which are obtained at certain score values. Players can also grab lightning-shaped medals for points by destroying containers on the playfield. Depending on the settings in the arcade version, the title uses either a checkpoint system in which a downed single player will start off at the beginning of the checkpoint they managed to reach before dying, or a respawn system where their ship immediately starts at the location they died at. Getting hit by enemy fire will result in losing a live, as well as a penalty of decreasing the ship's firepower and speed to his original state and once all lives are lost, the game is over unless the players insert more credits into the arcade machine to continue playing. Once all ten stages are complete, the game loops back to the first stage after completing the last stage as with previous titles from Toaplan, with each one increasing the difficulty and enemies fire denser bullet patterns. Overall, Fire Shark is a lot of fun. Although the game can be difficult, but still a great shooter by Toaplan. I highly recommend to give this one a try. I hope you enjoy this 1 Credit Challenge video of Fire Shark for the Arcade and thanks for watching!
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