Sharp Shot
Platform: Intellivision
Region: USA
Media: Cartridge
Controller: INTV
Genre: Sports - Competitive Events
Gametype: Licensed
Release Year: 1982
Developer: APh Technological Consulting
Publisher: Mattel Electronics
Players: 1 or 2 VS
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Sharp Shot is collection of 4 single-button action games: Touchdown Passing, Space Gunner, Submarine, and Maze Shoot. The goal of each game is to score as many points as possible within 60 seconds.

Touchdown Passing - Play as the quarterback and pass the ball to your receiving end waiting at the goal. Be careful not to let the opposing team intercept the pass! Touchdown Passing offers gameplay for one player or 2 players alternating turns.

Space Gunner - Squadrons of enemy alien ships fly through your cross hairs. Time your shots right and blast as many ships as you can! Space Gunner offers gameplay for one player or 2 simultaneous players.

Submarine - Fire torpedoes from your sub to sink as many enemy ships as you can within 60 second. Submarine offers gameplay for one player or 2 players alternating turns.

Maze Shoot - Use your bow and arrow to fend monsters off of your piles of treasures located at different points in a maze. Shoot at corners to ricochet your shots down different corridors of the maze. Maze Shoot offers gameplay for one player or 2 simultaneous players.


CATALOG DESCRIPTION:

An exciting new target shooting game specially designed for children. There are four different shooting ranges for one or two players. Hit the pass receiver. Shoot down the spinning spacecraft. Bomb Navy ships. Fire at the maze monsters. Challenging action for video game beginners.


PRODUCTION HISTORY:

These four single-button games were originally programmed by APh for a TV game show -- contestants controlled the single fire button by saying "Pow!" With no advance notice, APh sent over these four games stitched into one with the intention that Mattel release it as a children's cartridge. Since Mattel by contract had to buy a certain amount of product each year from APh, Marketing agreed to release the cartridge, over the objections of Gabriel Baum, VP of Application Software.

Gabriel particularly objected to the packaging. In a memo to Marketing (August 31, 1982), he wrote: "...the packaging and instructions do not in any way indicate that the game and graphic content of the cartridge is extremely simplistic...I believe that Mattel Electronics is going to be exposed to very unfavorable comment when consumers discover that the quality of the cartridge is in many ways reminiscent of early Atari games." In answer to this memo, Marketing had a label added to the front of the package reading, "Specially designed game for children over 4."

An M Network Atari 2600 version of the game was also submitted by APh. It was rejected.

 
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