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Thunder Jaws

Thunder Jaws

Credits

Released:

1991 (35 years ago)

Publisher:

Developer:

Coder:

Graphics:

Lloyd Baker
Saurav Sarkar

Musician:

Jolyon Vincent Myers

Information

Hardware:

OCS, ECS

Disks:

License:

Commercial

Players:

1 or 2, Simultaneous

Language:

English

Categorization

Genre:

Shoot'em Up, H-Scrolling

Tags:

Horizontal Shooter Sideways Walkabout

Tie-In Licenses

ThunderJaws · KLOV

Arcade coin-op · Atari Games Ltd (US), Tengen Inc (US)

Magazine Reviews

Amiga Action No. 26 (nov 91), p96 No info available	74%
Amiga Computing No. 43 (dec 91), p90 Review by Daniel Whitehead	70%
Amiga Format No. 28 (nov 91), p102 Review by Trenton Webb	51%
Amiga Joker (nov 91), p46 Review by Richard Löwenstein	33%
Amiga Power No. 8 (dec 91), p94 Review by Stuart Campbell	17%
CU Amiga (aug 91), p91 Review by Steve Merrett	77%
Datormagazin No. 19 (nov 91), p58 Review by Pontus Berg	72%
Games-X No. 19 (aug 91), p21 Review by John Davison	3.5/5
Joystick No. 21 (nov 91), p236 Review by Moulinex (scan missing)	65%
Svenska Hemdatornytt (nov 91), p15 Review by Paul (scan missing)	63.75%
The One No. 35 (aug 91), p74 Review by Laurence Scotford	68%
Average magazine rating: Based on 11 magazine reviews	60%

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11 Comments

SonicQuack 2026-03-23

(5/10)

The overall design is sound, and the two-player option does help, but the lack of animation of the main character and poor precision, for what is ultimately a shmup, sink this one. The allure of pixelated women attempts to cover up the lack of gameplay.

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Pavle Majonez 2024-07-09

(4/10)

A really neat idea for an action game, with underwater and on foot stages which include fitting music, backgrounds and enemies for each stage, it seems like an awesome game, but this port is not that.
No continues at all, and that's unfortunate, because the enemies keep appearing from left and right continuously and it's much harder to deal with them during the underwater sections.
Graphics and sound are nothing special.
Quite weak overall.

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Deist 2016-11-06

@Patarival: And why was Medusa (from Marvel's Inhumans) in "Rings of Medusa" to begin with (aside from the joke I guess...)?

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Ggaribaldi 2013-01-28

(7/10)

Hm, quite some negative comments. I started playing this one with my girl-friend and its really entertaining in the two-player mode, though sometimes unfair and a bit confusing when to many opponents are on the screeb. But you can make decent process plus it has a quite unique atmosphere & idead. Give it a try.

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Patarival 2010-07-20

Why is Medusa from "Rings of Medusa" in the status box? :huh:

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Kodoichi 2010-02-01

The Amiga version seems slightly censored. You don't get the "oh penis" sample when you die and the punk girls don't explode in a Thundercop-like blood bath.

The woman's face on the player selection screen is copied from a painting by Boris Vallejo.

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Zygyzy 2008-02-13

(4/10)

I weak game but it was fun to shoot the sharks anyway.... XI

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Greeny 2007-10-08

This came with my A600 and it wasn't exactly a great introduction to amiga gaming. I thought it was repetitive, boring and too difficult. Some nice sounds and backdrops but not enough to make this a decent game

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Kai 2007-02-19

(1/10)

Sloppy designed, most times unfair gameplay, run-of-the-mill music and a terrible collision detection. (21%)

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amigabill 2006-12-23

I remember playing the coin-op version a couple of times with mixed feelings.. Well that same spirit got me over when I played the A500 version but then again its an OK game for an hour or two.

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steef-online 2006-01-03

(6/10)

As with many games, this game has good graphics, decent sound, a nice intro, but it suffers from very mediocre gameplay. There's nothing special here and because of the monotonous gameplay, boredom will set in pretty soon.

Graphics: 7/10
Sound: 7/10
Gameplay: 5/10

Overall: 6/10