Download Sky Shark

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… uh, well, yes it is a plane... but it’s more than that… It’s Sky Shark! Taito presents another arcade to PC remake.

In Sky Shark you patrol the skies in your very own fighter plane, equipped with unlimited missiles and a few bombs. You can collect power-ups along the way, to increase your fighter plane’s firepower, and add additional bombs. Control is via keyboard, joystick or mouse  I only played using the mouse – and offers two players, alternating turns.

You fight a large variety of enemy planes, mostly bi-planes, tanks with gun turrets and other little surprises along the way. The graphics really detract from the gameplay, but consider the fact that it is a 1988 game. There was no sound that I heard using VDMSound, and DOSBox would not work for me using the default settings.

Even accounting for the age of the game, Sky Shark is more tuna than shark. It is a small download, so you may want to try it for five minutes, simply so you can say you’ve played it. Otherwise, I have some fresh paint that you may want to watch dry!