Shark Jaws

Shark Jaws
Arcade flyer
DeveloperHorror Games (Atari, Inc.)
PlatformArcade
Release
  • NA: September 25, 1975
GenreAction
ModeSingle-player

Shark Jaws is an action video game by Atari, Inc. under the name of Horror Games, originally released for arcades in 1975. An unlicensed tie-in to the movie Jaws, and believed to be the first commercially released movie tie-in, it was created to be a game about sharks eating people. According to Bushnell, the game was successful enough to sell approximately two thousand units.

In the game, the player controls a deep-sea diver trying to catch small fish while avoiding a great white shark that is trying to eat him. Points are scored by running over the fish to catch them.

The unrelated 1972 electromechanical arcade game Killer Shark from Sega was briefly featured in Jaws.