Jaws FAQ for NES. Version 1.0. Written by Ramagamma (ramagamma@hotmail.com). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Why a Jaws FAQ. 2. The Game. 3. Walkthrough. 4. Anything else. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Why a Jaws FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You might and indeed should be asking youself why i am writing a FAQ on the game of a very very bad movie from the mid seventies. The reason is that i read a FAQ on it by EdtheMoogle that inspired me to rush out and get the ROM off the internet and play for a good hour or so before deleting it. Heck its kinda fun finding a crap game and beating it then writing a FAQ/Review for it to pass the time and add a FAQ to my contributor page at www.gamefaqs.com which is the only site that can host this FAQ. Beats doing homework anyday. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. The Game. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am sure you have all seen the terrible movie about a killer shark who terrorises a small neighbourhood. It was made in 1975 and is famous for being a shark movie that lasts 2 hours with only about 10 minutes of that involving anything to do with sharks. Well as the way of the world goes some fool out there decided to cheat the public out of its own money by making a very very bad game. Dammit i could programme this and that isnt a joke. Anyways just to pass the time ill do a FAQ on it although god knows why anyone would need one as my dad could complete JAWs. On with the FAQ. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Walkthrough. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You boot up the game and what do you get. A very nice title screen thats what. The top of Jaw's head makes up the A and there some Jaws music going on in the background. All very nice so far. You push start and your suddlney greeted with even cheerier music and a picture of a boat. Just after the music fades the game starts. And yes you are extremley dissapointed. It looks like some kind of island surrounded by rocks and water. You take a look at the bottom of the screen and you notice 4 things. Score which shows your current score for the level. I wouldnt give a damn about that though because your not exactly going to gain populatiry by running about shouting "i got a really high score on Jaws for the NES". Shells which are this games basic from of currency i suppose you could say. If you have shells you can buy upgrades to you ship. More on that later. There also power which starts at 1. You can upgrade this more on that later. The last thing on the screen is "Jaws Power". As you meet him and fill him with bombs and harpoons this will slowly decrease and increase again. Right so what you shuuld do to start is move about. Eventually a message will flash at the bottom that you have "hit something". You are then taken to a side view screen where your guy is swimming about. You then have to shoot Jellyfish and Stingrays. Sometimes they drop crabs which try and run away, grab them for points. Sometimes they drop stars which you should pickup to get points and less often they will drop the shells you can use as currency. Collect about 10 of these and then go to one of the docks with the picture of the anchor on them. You then get the Jaws radar whihc starts beeping whenever he comes near. Its a wee bit usless though because you can always see him surfacing just before he comes at you. Right once youve got the tracker you have to get more and more shells. Eventally you should get to a bonus stage. What happens is instead of controlling a crappy little scuba diver you control a plane. The ocean below you is filled with Jelllyfish that appear often. What you need to do is drop bombs on the jellyfishes heads. Its much easier than the rest of the game. Anyways once you have done that for a few minutes or so the bonus game ends and you get a number of shells depening on how many jellyfish you killed. I didnt say this game was any good. Now you are back to the main screen. Hopefully you will have about 20 shells at last by now. What you have to do now is swim between the 2 ports with the anchors on them avoiding Jaws. Every time you reach one with 5 shells your power bar in the bottom goes up. Once you are level 5 go sailing at the very right hand side of the screen and you should see some kind of boat type thing. Get that. Now whenver you go underwater you are in a submarine and you can shoot bombs underwater and your harpoons turn into missiles. Ok so know you are level 5 and you have the submarine. Right just stay in one stop till Jaws comes near you. The difference between this and any other encounters you had with Jaws is that the sea has a LOT of jellyfish that can now swim sideways. Avoid these and pummel Jaws with your bullets and your bombs. Since you are level 5 you will notice that Jaws power starts to go down a large amount. Oh i forgot to mention. At the start of every encounter with Jaws you are in the boat and you can shoot out bombs to the different sides by hitting A and B. One button does the left side and one does the right. Once you get hit by Jaws though this stops and you are swimming. Its unlikley you will be able to hit him with many bombs before a jellyfish gets you and even then you can only go a certain distance to the left or right before you stop and jaws gets you. Right you should be in the submarine so hit Jaws with everything, missles and bombs. Once his energy is about half done he will swim away and you want to scream thinking you have just lost all your hard work. Fear not though. He will come back about a second after you are back to the main screen and this time he has some baby sharks. Avoid the sharks and take away the remaining half of his energy. Once he has no more energy left its your last encounter. Its not a perspective from the front of your boat and you can see Jaws fin swimming up. When Jaws is very close to you push B and he is forced up out of the water. You can only do this 3 times before you have to waste his energy again. When he is up in the water he spins round really fast. Hit A to stab the front of the boat into his stomach. His corpse floats to the bottom of the sea and a plane flies over the river. Congratulations you have just comepeted Jaws. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Anything Else. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wow that was fun and i did it in less than a hour. Anyways this guide is copyright to Ramagamma(tm). It can only be found on www.gamefaqs.com and not the evil www.fbgames.com which is the worst site ever. Rock on. Ramgamma.