Jaws (NES) Playthrough
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- Опубликовано: 16 авг 2022
- A playthrough of LJN's 1987 license-based action game for the NES, Jaws.
Jaws was one of the first NES games to bear the LJN logo when it debuted in November of 1987 alongside The Karate Kid ( • The Karate Kid (NES) P... ) and Gotcha! The Sport!
Coming along about four months after Jaws: The Revenge belly-flopped into theaters with a resounding thud, the game was ostensibly posed as a tie-in to the film. It has no connection whatsoever to the movie's plot, but that was probably for the best.
Instead of having you satisfy a personal vendetta against a psychic shark, Jaws for the NES keeps things simple: the great white shark has been hanging out in the harbor, and it's your job to get rid of him.
As you steer your boat through the local waters, you'll occasionally be told that you've hit something. This kicks off a "random encounter" shooter-style stage against the local sealife in which you dive into the water to kill rays, jellyfish, and baby sharks with a harpoon gun.
These creatures drop all sorts of collectable items: stars give you bonus points, crabs boost your swimming speed, and seashells act as currency that can be traded for equipment upgrades.
If you kill enough baby sharks in a scene, you'll be scuttled off to a bonus game that involves dropping depth charges from a plane to kill chains of jellyfish for extra shells.
The first time you pull into a port after collecting enough shells, you'll receive a tracking device that beeps whenever Jaws comes near. Once you've collected a few more shells, you can return to the home port to power-up your harpoon gun, and after going back and forth to upgrade your gun a few times, you'll be given access to a submarine for improved maneuverability.
Eventually you'll come face-to-face with Jaws. To win, you'll need to whittle down Jaws' health in the shooter segments. Once you've emptied his power gauge, the game shifts to a first-person view and Jaws charges. As he approaches, you'll need to set off a strobe device that will make him angrily rear up out of the water, and the moment Jaws reveals his white underbelly, you hit the B button to violently stab him with your boat.
Jaws has been harshly criticized over the years, but I find it to be a fairly fun game. It feels like an early 80s arcade shooter that has been dressed up with a few creative mechanics to give it a bit of depth for the home console crowd. The premise is entertaining and bizarre, the graphics are appealing and bright, and the controls are fine - it's a pretty solid effort despite being way too short and easy.
One interesting thing to note is that the game was created by Westone (the company that made the Wonder Boy arcade game), working as a subcontractor for Atlus. LJN may have been the publisher, but the game had some solid talent standing behind it.
It's not a masterpiece, but Jaws is a much better game than that LJN logo might lead you to believe.
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10 minutes to beat a game that has haunted me since childhood.
At the end of the day i guess it was i who needed a bigger boat.
This time, it's personal!
It's a short and easy game.
Jaws 19: This time it's REALLY, REALLY personal!
@@larrylaffer3246 "Shark still looks fake"
This game has value just for introducing the very idea of carpet bombing schools of jellyfish from a jumbo jet as a BONUS stage. Which implies you're doing it just for fun. I always found that funny.
Back when we weren't allowed to play all day, these small games were really fun.
And now, kids spend years in front of monitors and smartphones, and that's not enough...
Will confess, I always enjoyed this game.
It's well made.
This was the most unappreciated game in the world. I love it
I always love the bg music when the player is out in the sea. I hum that to my 6yr old now. He loved it like I do!
Can't wait to play the sequel: *Bigger Jaws*
lmfao
thank u 4 this
Funny enough, this was one of my first NES games in a small collection. It's still an okay game to go for one run through once in a while.
Just aiming the bow of the boat to hit Jaws at the end was a pain.
It took me awhile to figure out too. It's pretty easy once you get what the game wants you to do though.
😭😭😭This too my second NES game I would not start to rent games for 2 years. A kid In 1987 that felt closer to a decade with just Jaws & SMB/Duck Hunt.
I didn’t realize how manuals worked so I had no idea how to beat Jaws anyway.
As Okrah would saw, “I feel the hurt”
@@NintendoCompleteI never beat this game as a kid. I guess I was too young to figure out what I was supposed to do.
I could never hit it!
The tune during the bonus scene is an absolute banger.
Game's super short and easy, but honestly plays okay and has some decent music. Thank Westone for that I guess.
The first "overworld' I ever explored. I don't want to credit this game for getting me into RPGs (though I do quite like this game), but i think it planted the seeds for a budding JRPG interest later on. The great music helps, too.
The size of the sailing vessel may be inadequate.
This feels like what an Atari 2600 game on good hardware would be.
Yeah, the developers had talent, but there were only three of them and it was their first NES game. They were learning on the fly as they were making it.
As rough as it is, JAWS is as nostalgic as the NES can get for me. It was the first NES game I ever played, and I still come back to it even today.
One week before I started first grade, back in Fall 1988, my dad rented an NES from our local video store along with this and Rambo. My expectations for what the NES could do were non-existent, as the only other video game I had ever played was a single run at the arcade version of TRON.
As a kid, this game baffled me and I wrote it off as over my head. What a weird and ambitious way to translate a movie that should be next to impossible to turn into an interactive video game. Stuff like this, even if it ultimately fails, really helped influence my taste and ability to accept new or even abstract ideas. Jaws, like so many other weird NES games, has so much more value for being an ambitious failure than the mediocre also ran it could've been.
I actually liked this game. I think people were too hard on it. It's fun for what it is.
I like this videogame, greetings from Guaranda, Ecuador.
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I remember this game, I've been trying to find this game for years. What a blast from the past!
I rented this 36 years ago when I was 6 at one of omahas video stores.
One of the more playable ljn games unlike garbage like X-men or back to the future
I remember playing this game as a kid :)
Like most NES games, it didn't seem to have anything to do with the source material, but it was still fun to play anyway!
Little Nemo was the same way and it was waaay better than the movie.
At least the ending didn’t have a “You have defeated the shark but is it really dead?? We’re not telling. End” ending like the Friday the 13th NES game.
9:22
Chief Martin Brody: Smile You Son Of A
Awesome game. Quick & easy, good graphics, and an awesome soundtrack.
This is such a cool thing. I sit back have a drink in the evening and watch this
The music in Jaws is surprisingly good, and the game can be kinda fun once you know how to play it. That last part where you have to stab Jaws with the boat at the end is pretty frustrating though. Why can't I just say "Smile you son of a-!" and then blow him up?
I'd like to see the smoke coming out of the eye holes like you could in the second Jaws.
The music was done by Hirohiko Takayama, who also did other LJN movie licensed games like, "The Karate Kid," "Friday the 13th" and "Gotcha!" In an interview I read about him, his biggest wish was to compile movie scores, and video game music was the next best thing! My personal favorite soundtrack he ever did was, "Xexyz."
Not a great game, but significantly better than its negative reputation would have you to believe. Certainly a decent enough title to spend a quick 15-20 mins on once you figure it out.
If it looks at it as an arcade-style score chase game, it fits the bill perfectly.
A lot of people reviewing it are reviewing it as a current game. Were there better NES games? Certainly. Were there worse NES games? Certainly. How they could have translated the movie to an NES game better? I don't know. The only Jaws-related media I have consumed are this game and a half-hour GMod animation involving Sonic characters and Conker the Squirrel.
This game was great I know AVGN liked to hate on it b/c of its dev company but it truly was a masterpiece I remember being a kid wanting to scuba dive and shoot the eels with my harpoon and fly in a plane over the Atlantic dropping bombs on jellyfish with that music playing!! Such good memories! Took me years to get to the end. Didn't know how to lvl up didn't realize u had to go back and forth to the ports twice to get to lvl 2 weps. The submarine was op btw! That music at the end is lit, too! Ending is kinda dumb, but w/e it's an NES game we didn't play them for the ending we played for the experience!!
I actually quite enjoy this game, even though it has some flaws. The core gameplay loop is pretty decent. But the soundtrack for it is great. The ending theme in particular is one of my favorite tracks in the entire NES library.
Honestly I felt like the part in Jaws where they dropped bombs on jellyfish is often overlooked as a better part of the film.
LOL yeah right?
A lot of people say this is a bad game but I had a lot of fun with it.
This Poor soul really grinded jaws to the End...
You’re gonna need a bigger boat…my arse, as a kid I couldn’t figure this game out. Now I feel…well not good about it 😂😂😂
I saw Jaws 4 in the theater when I was like 8 lol.
Those Laughing Joking Numbnuts!!!!!!!
I remember my uncle had this game in the 90s on a tv vcr combination and I remember playing this at the age of 4
wow this game. the nights of anger.
As a kid I loved this game.
Incredible video.
The most difficult game ever.
We rented this in 1991 I was 5 or 6... had no idea how to play was just scared when we found Jaws lol
I loved this game as a kid! It's not exactly a great game design wise, but I really liked it.
This one and Simon's quest were my favorite games
LJN games rule. People will believe anything you tell them.
i enjoyed this game it also had epic music
Welp, another LJN title that looks like it's worth a try. Maybe it could be as enjoyable as I found the Punisher, who knows?
And it's true that LJN commissions other companies to make the games for them. Didn't know the folks behind Wonder Boy and Atlus jointly made this.
uuuff i really enjoy this game as a kid hehehe
Fun game. My first Nintendo game from a movie was top gun and the reason I wanted to be a jet pilot for the longest time. My favorite movie game was TMNT. Not the arcade one
I can't even begin to count how many times I cried in fear while playing this game. Also, while playing Resident Evil and getting bit by multiple zombz😳😳😳
While this game has a strong cult following, it's even part of a mini tribute shrine at Universal Studios Florida where they used to have the ride (which got replaced with Diagon Alley). Thing is that when the ride closed, they moved the replica of Bruce the shark to the San Francisco region next to a bar called Chez Alcatraz, and on the left of the bar, you'll see a boat wheel which has a lot of jaws memorabilia including a Jaws cartridge for the NES.
P.S. if you're 21 and up, be sure to get the Ocean Attack drink. You'll be in for an entertaining moment there.
Damn fam! Is this a speed run!? You managed to kill jaws and beat this game quick, I'm Impressed. I dont remember this game being this short. Also killing jaws was a pain in the ass. Jaws felt like a real long final boss 🤣
Thanks! :) Haha no not a speedrun, just evidence of too much time being spent on it :)
This game I owned a long time ago. Didn't got passed the electronics, I would have. I still own it. I might try to beat it one day.
Just like the movie
I love how this was based on Jaws 4.
"Hey, you know what shmups are missing? Grinding. Let's make a game just about that!"
Fantastic work as always NintendoComplete!
Tyvm!
So Quint has to pay for all the equipment by hunting seashells because the mayor of Amity bay drained the shark hunting budget to let tourists carpet bomb jellyfish?
As a kid, this was a great game, and although the video made it look easy, it was hard as a 9 year old :D
There are plenty of tie ins to the movie. The shells, the tracker, the sub, the plane (though not bombing jellyfish) and strobe and ship attack ending.
Even though it's made by LJN, you can't say it's a bad game
Buddies and me (Kids, really) snuck down a friend's basement, found his nes setup, despite the pleas from my friends we popped this cartridge in before the kid who lived there found out. When he found out we invaded his setup it was not so good. Stressful child memory... His brother also had a poster of Michael Jordan in his room, full scale (6'6)
Ah, the palm trees of New England and upstate New York…
Once you figured it out, you will finish it in 10 minutes. The developer already apologized for this one.
Info: you can speed up or slow down the plane during the bonus stages in order to aim those cannonballs better.
Developed by Atlus in conjunction with Westone. Not a bad game, but not a spectacular game by any means. It's just super short.
Is that like a Jetsons boat that folds up into a backpack when you go underwater
This Jaws game is from 1987, and the NES console is from 1985.
Damn. How'd you get it to look so sharp?
I've been able to beat this game in under fifteen minutes since I was 7
When I was little, I always assumed it was a port of an arcade game. I remember looking for it in arcades and asking people who worked there if they had Jaws. No such luck.
stay away from those shores! I always hated those underwater scenes in particular when I was younger. Way less time to react.
Shark still looks fake
Almost beat this game myself
JAWS for the NES from LJN wasn't a bad title at all for sure. In fact, it's one of this better releases for its time. It wasn't the absolute best by any stretch of course. But a fun title that sadly got marginalized from being a good game because of the companies reputation.
I mean I know this is nearly a 40 year old game but they could've done better with the ending. Like at least have an outro text with some simple animation like a sunset lol.
short but very good 😌👉
9:15 Smile, you sonnuva--!
hahaha... and this is end ??? HOW many time i lost this game before ~16-18 years :D GJ
I remember AVGN doing this game. LJN was terrible.
Impressive play, though.
If you get over 30,000 points you unlock the sub which an unlimited cannon balls and spear like shots unlimited the better your power is the faster you can drain JAWS life bar max power is 9 and after that you can receive extra strobes 1 for 10 shells a piece
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9:22 smile you son of a….
That's a 20 footer, 25 three tons on em.
Hanno fatto anche il gioco dello scqualo.
LJN...
Now were talking s**t
- AVGN
Shells? Thought it was poop.
Was it a megalodon?
The bonus scene is done straight bs.. no way to 100%😅
game is very fun once you figure out where you're supposed to go and what to do, plus getting the submarine just makes it more fun. Also, you can beat the game in 10mins, or keep playing and the game will get harder with more baby sharks. Completely up to you. Video Game Nerd Idiot is wrong about this game, Jaws nes owns.
womp womp womp
🆒️ 🕹🎮 😀👍🏻
This is the less worst LJN game since LJN wasn't developed the game
Random fact: I've never actually seen Jaws before. None of the films.
Fuck this game. You get hit once, aside from losing a life, you lose:
-1 power level
-Half your shells
-ALL damage done to Jaws
-Even the radar, so you need to collect it again
What's the point of even having a life counter? You might as well reset the game every time you die. At least then, the enemies are easy again. I can't even fucking make it to the harbor because every centimeter I move, I gotta fight fish for 5 straight minutes. Even battles in Final Fantasy don't take that long. Never have I played a game so boring and so frustratingly difficult at the same time. It's weird because the difficulty fluctuates between playthroughs. It's either short and easy, or drawn out and infuriating. No inbetween.
Yep. It's just as trash as I remember. Thank God for game rentals.
Not a great game, but I've seen worse from LJN.
Why do the metroids turn into white piles of turd?
What a shitty Game, in that time games like ff 1, 2 exist, they can do it a lot better.
Never seen any of the "Jaws" movies. I mostly heard about this game and how awful it is. Well, I agree with the majority of people in that it blows. It's mind numbingly boring. The uninspiring and tedious gameplay, the droning music and the fact that Westone, the Wonder Boy devs, made *_this_* truly baffles me. How do you go from a great series of challenging platformers with RPG mechanics in them to a painfully boring shooter with RPG mechanics in it? But hey, at least you can beat this game in 10 minutes. Probably the only good thing about this game lol.
It truly is one of the worst games to have the LJN logo on it.
Is it really the worst game tho?
No
imo its just an ok game