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Jaws: The Nintendo Game.

The first guess was right, here's my review of the Jaws Nintendo game, where we battled with the world's most famous shark using spears, bombs, strobes and our own two hands. A pretty terrible game that still managed to bewitch a few people, it's hard not to appreciate an attempt to get Jaws out there in any way possible. Review includes Mrs. Sbaitso's audio version, and a lot of images aligned jusssst right.

Posted by Matt on 04/13/2004. E-mail me!

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First comment!

Christ. I can’t believe I did that…

Chestnuts roasted by Bobby... @ 04/13/2004 5:30 PM

Hey…I have this game and I always thought it was a pretty fun game. During the bomb drop side game I always thought they looked like jellyfish.

Chestnuts roasted by Diabetic Dinosaur @ 04/13/2004 5:31 PM

And by that I mean I thought the jellyfish were flying

Chestnuts roasted by Diabetic Dinosaur @ 04/13/2004 5:34 PM

Jaws was impossible to beat. what a dick.

Chestnuts roasted by reree @ 04/13/2004 5:43 PM

Collecting shells was one of the most tedious things ever, but that sweet sweet sub power-up was worth it, overall pretty easy game, just stay out of the shallow water. Too bad this game was awful or there might have been super cool Jaws video game sequels, including Jaws 3 the video game in stunning 3-D

Chestnuts roasted by Brentantation @ 04/13/2004 5:44 PM

I saw a Tiger shark once, washed up on a beach in Alameda. Poor thing. It never had a chance to play this game.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/13/2004 5:59 PM

Matt, that shark has got to be the new mascott.

Chestnuts roasted by LordKaT @ 04/13/2004 6:14 PM

Yay ‘intendo! As kids, my friend and I played this endlessly at his house, but we both sucked and couldn’t "stab" Jaws… Then I really pissed him off by convincing him I beat the game while he was sleeping… I came clean a few weeks ago. He wasn’t amused.

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 04/13/2004 6:33 PM

I could get nowhere in this game as a kid. Try it now — if you read any manual/walkthrough, it’s damn easy. Without reading anything, it’s damn impossible.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 04/13/2004 6:34 PM

So, um… first screen shot… 666 points? Was this intentional? Or are you Satan?

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 04/13/2004 6:40 PM

Just so you know, the game doesn’t suck…it Bites. *Chomp*

Chestnuts roasted by Lonewolf @ 04/13/2004 6:41 PM

My god! What have you done to poor Omnibot 2000? Has he had a sex change?

Chestnuts roasted by Photoboy @ 04/13/2004 6:48 PM

NINTENDO!

Chestnuts roasted by dfghjdj @ 04/13/2004 7:20 PM

Jaws was the first game I ever rented! I was only 4 or 5, so I had absolutely no idea what to do, but the fact that I remember it from 15 years ago must mean something. Look for the Jaws NES game along with Burger Time in the store where Marty McFly gets the almanac.

Chestnuts roasted by autobot521 @ 04/13/2004 7:23 PM

I remember this game now! Back in the day, I loved everything shark. Then I played this game. SO I didn’t love everything shark anymore.

But for a really bad shark game, the Atari 2600 "Sea Hunt" Truly took the cake. And smashed your pixelated face into it.

Chestnuts roasted by Sean @ 04/13/2004 7:28 PM

I remember this game. I played it at friends houses when I was a kid. I guess we were just REALLY bored because we thought this game was the SHIZZNIT at the time. Ahh, I guess we all live and learn. This game wasn’t as bad as LJN’s T&C Surf and Sport. Ugh! Coolness with the Mrs. Sbaitso Matt.

Chestnuts roasted by Kaynyne @ 04/13/2004 7:46 PM

i love this game my freind had it and we could never beat jaws though….. by the way would it have killed you to put that robot thing at the top, that would have been realy cool to listen to…

Chestnuts roasted by AfroKen @ 04/13/2004 7:51 PM

Hehe I think I enjoyed Mrs Sbaisto’s rendition almost as much as the article! …ok, ok, I confess; I only sat through it long enough to see if she would swear. She doesn’t

On a brighter note, you do get to hear her mangle fookin’ early on!

Chestnuts roasted by Bob B @ 04/13/2004 8:09 PM

By the way, I can’t speak to Jaws, but T&C Surf Designs was an AWESOME game. I used to smoke that skateboarding course.

Chestnuts roasted by Bob B @ 04/13/2004 8:11 PM

The robot reading has warped my brain.

Chestnuts roasted by Cannibalizer @ 04/13/2004 8:15 PM

Haw! I loved the robot voice. You should do every article like this.

Chestnuts roasted by Teirusu @ 04/13/2004 8:51 PM

Whoa!!! Why isn’t everybody commenting on the TOMY OMNIBOT 2000 picture at the bottom of this article??? I don’t remember how much it cost back in the day but it was WAY more expensive than any kid deserved. (Which made it a guiltier pleasure that I’d suckered my folks into getting me one for Xmas…)

You could "program" it to pour (spill) drinks and motor around the house. Oh, it never worked nearly as well as I’d prayed it would, but what ever did…?

Chestnuts roasted by M. Alice @ 04/13/2004 9:02 PM

eh..just reminded me that the damn game sucks. well written matt! =D time to listen to the review on "tape"

Chestnuts roasted by nelson @ 04/13/2004 9:51 PM

Matt, what possessed you to put the article through text-to-speech? Whatever it was, it was good.

While visiting my mom’s friends’ house, I watched her son play this game once. I was 6 and in the starting stages of my Nintendo obsession, but even then I wasn’t interested. My best memory of a similar incident is watching some kid show me the end of Super Metroid, swimsuit Samus and all. I still haven’t done it.

Chestnuts roasted by Behonkiss @ 04/13/2004 10:08 PM

FYI – the makers of the power meter actually did make just the sort of error you were hoping for. The possessive of a name ending in S is still the name plus apostrophe plus S. So it should be JAWS’S power. It may look funny, but it’s right.

Cheers on the great site, it’s always fun to read at work.

Chestnuts roasted by robotsarered @ 04/13/2004 10:11 PM

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