Shark Attack! (Arcade - Pacific Novelty)

[@curtis3948]

The speech really makes the game

[@danestegman155]

Good video! Wow! Never heard or seen this game before! Like the voices in it! Nice!

[@johnmcjunkin4613]

There was a game in the 80's, that I believe was called Shark Hunter. Looks very similar.

[@jeffd.1485]

One of my favorite aspects of the MAME experience is searching through the thousands of games and finding cool hidden gems or oddballs. This is an interesting one for sure because of the sound and speech which was pretty rare for 1981. Maybe I have an old version but I don't have any of the speech when I play this in MAME though.

[@elmono6299]

Something tells me Jaws inspired the creation of this obscure arcade game. 🕹🦈

[@Dmarcoot]

this might be greatest game i never saw in the arcade. where did you find a ROM with the voices? Every version I have tried doesnt have them

[@SVT512]

You have to add the voices in a Samples directory in Mame that has the rom name for the folder.

[@draketungsten74]

🦈

[@CannabisKidd]

Pacific Novelties also made a third talking game that is a sequel to Thief called NATO Defense. NATO Defense has a gameplay mechanic that is not seen in many Pac-Man clones, you are a tank and instead of picking up Power Pills you pick up ammo for your tank and shoot the enemy tanks. Everyone check it out! Also could someone please help me with getting the voice to work on Shark Attack? I am playing Shark Attack and 3 Stooges on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ and I am trying to get them to talk like they are supposed to. Thanks in advance for your help!