Games of the 8-, 16- & 32-bit era

Blue Shark

Title	Blue Shark
First release	1978
Developer	Midway Manufacturing Co.
Publisher	Midway Games
Platform	Arcade
Genre	shooter game
Players	1 player
Co-op	No
Releases	Arcade: 1978-01-01

An undersea shooting game where the player uses a mounted spear gun to kill sea creatures that move across the screen. Shoot the sharks, swordfish and octopuses but try not to hit any of the skindivers.

Description: TheGamesDB (community-contributed, no licence stated; internal use only)

Facts from TheGamesDB (community-contributed, no licence stated; internal use only); they may contain errors. Developer and publisher names are not in the TheGamesDB dump and are added once resolved. Only retro platforms tracked by this site are listed.

Sources

TheGamesDB (43389) · last updated 2026-07-18 · no licence stated · internal use only

Arcade Database (ADB) (blueshrk) · last updated 2026-10-06 · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · internal use only

Arcade Database ADB

MAME romset	`blueshrk`
Title at ADB	Blue Shark (Midway)
Manufacturer	Midway
Year	1978
Genre	Shooter / Gallery
Players	1
MAME driver status	IMPERFECT

Artwork: ADB (Arcade Database); artwork © original manufacturer (Midway); snaps by ProgettoSnaps via ADB. Non-free, internal use only (hotlinked, not downloaded).

Scraping using Arcade Database by motoschifo · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · romset via Wikidata P2451 (mame-title+year) · fetched 2026-10-06 17:22 UTC · no fields filled (other sources take precedence)

Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded) · © Midway Games · internal use only

Image credits

Box art (1): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded) · © Midway Games · internal use only. TheGamesDB page

Sprites

No sprite sheets yet. Find sprites on The Spriters Resource ↗ /

Videos

Arcade Game: Blue Shark (1978 Midway)

Old Classic Retro Gaming · Arcade version · gameplay · 2:00auto-matched
Watch on YouTube ↗ · auto:channel-harvest, checked 2026-10-25 18:41 UTC

"Auto-matched" videos were found automatically (title + platform match via the YouTube Data API) and may occasionally be wrong. Videos are hosted by YouTube (embedded via youtube-nocookie.com; nothing loads from YouTube until you press play) and belong to their channels.