There have been numerous shooting games in amusement arcades over the years. Bulls eye targets, Red Indians, ducks, cats, clowns, jungle beasts... Then when computer electronics got good enough we had Space Invaders, then Asteroids and once all the outer space scenarios had been used up we went back to dangerous animals.
Killer Shark was released by Sega in 1972. The premise of the game was that you were a scuba diver with a harpoon gun and you had to kill the sharks that were threatening you. A hit made the shark writhe amidst a cloud of blood. The game was immensely popular in Blackpool's arcades and I presume everywhere else as well. It was even featured in the famous shark film, Jaws!
I have seen many sega electronic game items from the 60s and early 70s before the advent of video games, it is said that the most popular was the one of a submarine that represented a naval battle, which was very popular in 1968 and 1969 worldwide in arcades, but the first release was in Japan in 1966 for 3 players, in 1969 they released a game of airplanes and another of tanks which does not have much information
ReplyDeleteHi Neider, I think this will be "Sega Periscope", more details in this article at Wikipedia. John
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