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Atari ST - Firebird (UK) - 1988

Flying Shark

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Genre
Shoot'em Up! - Vertical Scrolling
Year
1988
Language
Machine Language
Publisher
Firebird (UK)
Controls
Joystick
Distributor
British Telecom
Players
1
Developer
Catalyst Coders
Resolution
Low
Licensed from
Taito
Programmer(s)
Jeffrey, Karl D. / Clark, Henry S.
Country
Europe
Graphic Artist(s)
Hemphill, Robert A. / Lihou, Jason G.
Software
English
Game design
Taito
Box/Instructions
—
Musician(s)
Brooke, Jason C.
License
Commercial
Sound FX
Brooke, Jason C.
Serial
—
Cover Artist(s)
—
ST Type
ST, STe / 0.5MB
MIDI
—
Version
—
Dump
Download
Number of Disks
2 / Single Sided
Dump format
Pasti
Protection
—

OTHER VERSIONS WITH THE SAME TITLE (1)

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

See P. Putnik's site for adapted versions for hardware like HxC Floppy Emulator, Atari harddisk, TT, Falcon030 and more: The Atari ST Game Archive
See Klaz' Hideaway adaptions for Atari hard disk, TT, Falcon and more: Spiced up games

ADS (1)

TIPS (1)

TRIVIA (4)

Origins

Based on Taito 1987 coin-op.

Conversion - Atari 8-bit

Tiger Attack

Charts

Top UK ST charts position: 19 (3/1989)
Months on charts: 1, 3/1989

Releases

The Atari ST version was released first on the 16 bit market in Europe. Published later for other 16 bit systems.
Source: Research of over 16700 software reviews from UK computer magazines between 1985 and 1996.

BOOK / MAGAZINE REVIEWS (2)

The One · December, 1988Rating: 76 %
ST Action · January, 1989Rating: 69%