Skark! Shark! FAQ
Intellivision
Last Updated - 06/11/2004
By Crazyreyn (
[email protected])
Copyright (c)2004 Matthew Reynolds. All rights reserved.
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Table of Contents
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1. Legal Notice
2. Introduction
3. General Gameplay
4. Hints and Tips
5. Version History
6. Conclusion, Thanks and Contact Details
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1. Legal Notice
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This may be not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal,
private use. It may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed
publicly without advance written permission. Use of this guide on any other
web site or as a part of any public display is strictly prohibited, and a
violation of copyright.
All trademarks and copyrights contained in this document are owned by their
respective trademark and copyright holders.
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free to do so, although you MUST leave this FAQ unchanged and in it's
original format, plus I must be given full credit. If you are going to host it
then an email would be great, but if you cannot then no worries. You will
always find this latest version of this FAQ at
http://www.gamefaqs.com.
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2. Introduction
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Hello and welcome to the Shark! Shark! FAQ, which will give you information
on how to play the game, scoring and some hints and tips. I hope this FAQ will
help you out some (as that is it's propose) and that you enjoy this fun game.
Note that I'm writing this guide based on the version in Intellivision Lives
for this PlayStation 2, and as far as I can tell there aren't any differences.
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3. General Gameplay
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Controls
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Wheel - Move fish
Any button - Dash
Options
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At the start up screen, press one of the following to select the corresponding
game speed -
[3] = Very Slow
[2] = Slow
[1] = Medium Slow
Direction = Normal
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This is the general sum-up of this game, which is taken straight from the
manual -
"Terror reigns under the ocean surface. It's a heavy traffic of sharks, nasty
fish, seahorses, crabs, lobsters and jelly fish. They swim fast, jerk up and
down, lurk behind plants or slide under coral reefs. They have weird shapes,
striking colours, tiny or big sizes and very mean intentions. They eat or kill
each other at first sight!"
Basics
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The aim of the game is to get your fish to grow larger by eating other fish
that are smaller than you, and also biting sharks' tails. You will get points
for doing thing every 1000 points your fish increases in size. There are a
total of 5 sizes, and once you reach size 5 for every 1000 points you get an
extra life (you start off with 5 lives).
If you die (hit a shark or touch a fish of a bigger size) then you return to
size 1 and a life is taken away. However your points remain the same, which
you can use to continue to the next size. So for example on your first life
you have 900 points and you die, on your second life you just need 100 points
to grow to the next size. This is a pretty good factor that means your left
over points aren't wasted.
The maximum amount of points you can achieve is 9,999,950 and maximum lives is
255.
You can also have a two player mode, where player 1 is the yellow fish and
player 2 is the red fish. The aim is the same as in 1 player mode, apart from
that you can also eat the other player (as long as they are of a smaller mass,
otherwise nothing happens).
Points Breakdown
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This is a breakdown of the points you get for the different fish and fish
sizes.
Sharks Tail - Size 1 - 150
Size 2 - 200
Size 3 - 250
Size 4 - 300
Size 5 - 350
Tiny Fish - 100
Small Fish - 150
Medium Fish - 250
Large Fish - 350
Seahorse - 250
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4. Hints and Tips
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- Remember to only go after fish that are smaller or are the same size as you.
Note that you can never eat sharks (whole), jelly fish, crabs, lobsters and
massive fish (these usually make a noise as they come onto the screen).
- Seahorses (green wiggles) can be eaten from size 3 onward.
- Use dash a lot, to make sure you get away from advancing fish and to also
get smaller fish.
- Sharks are a great way to gain loads of points as you can nibble their tales
over and over. Make sure that there are not other fish near by and nibble
their tail, go over to the other side (they flip over, remember) then nibble
the tail quick, then over again etc. It takes from four to eight bites to
kill a shark, and as far as I can tell you get a small bonus (150 bonus).
- Stay away from the bottom, and especially the left and right sides as fish
appear from there and can easily gobble you up.
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5. Version History
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Version 1.0 - 06/11/04
First version of the FAQ; fully complete.
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6. Conclusion, Thanks and Contact Details
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If you need to contact me (for questions, suggestions, strategies or comments)
then send me an email at
[email protected]. Also if you can, rate this FAQ
so
I could get some feedback on it's quality. Thank you for reading.
Thanks to CJayC, IGN, Neoseeker, and the lot at the FCB.
If I have forgotten you, then please contact me and I'll fix your name up
here!
My other work -
http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/recognition/27600.html
By Crazyreyn (
[email protected])
Copyright (c)2004 Matthew Reynolds. All rights reserved.
Copyright Notice
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This may be not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal,
private use. It may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed
publicly without advance written permission. Use of this guide on any other
web site or as a part of any public display is strictly prohibited, and a
violation of copyright.
All trademarks and copyrights contained in this document are owned by their
respective trademark and copyright holders.
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