Sky Shark (NES)

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Sky Shark is a Britain-made US-only port of Toaplan's arcade shooter of the same name. It took more than 30 years to be released in the home country of the original game, for some reason.

It's also one of Tim Follin's first outings on NES, featuring a redone soundtrack made by him that would set the standard of his amazing soundtracks on the console.

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Several Software Creations games (including this, Target Renegade, Magic Johnson's Fast Break, Pictionary, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and Treasure Master) had their empty space padded with copyright/credits text, rather than 00 or FF as most other games did.

Sky Shark contains the following text:

SKY SHARK    COPYRIGHT TAITO AMERICA CORP
     PROGRAMMER   STEPHEN RUDDY 1988
         ARTIST   ANDREW THRELFALL
       MUSICIAN   TIM FOLLIN
  SOFTWARE CREATIONS LTD
FIRST FLOOR    204 OXFORD ROAD
MANCHESTER    M1 5QA
GREAT BRITAIN
TEL 061 236 1154
FAX 061 236 8248
   JELLYFISH BEANS AND CUSTARD

Note that there are no actual line feed symbols in the text; each line is a fixed length, padded with spaces.