History VideoGame / FireShark

A UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis port was developed in-house by Toaplan themselves and released in 1990 in the U.S. and
Japan and 1991 in Europe. A UsefulNotes/SharpX68000 version was developed but then cancelled.

In 2022, Creator/{{M2}} released ''Hishou Same! Same! Same!'' for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4. It is a CompilationRerelease of ''Fire Shark'' and ''Sky Shark'', as part of the ''Toaplan Arcade Garage'' series, itself part of the ''[=M2 ShotTriggers=]'' lineup. It includes the arcade versions of both games, including their regional variants and the "2P" build of ''Same! Same! Same'' as part of the base digital version; the DLC includes the NES version of ''Sky Shark''[[note]]notable for [[NoExportForYou being made by a North American team and released exclusively in NA]] prior to this compilation[[/note]], the NA Genesis and JP Mega Drive versions of ''Fire Shark'', and ''VideoGame/{{Wardner}}'' as the bonus non-shmup game in its arcade and [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Famicom Disk System]] forms. Those who purchase the physical edition get all of those titles; for those who buy the digital versions, the base game comes with the arcade versions of ''Sky Shark'' and ''Fire Shark'', with the rest of the titles as paid DLC. In addition, purchase of the game also comes with a complimentary download of ''VideoGame/TekiPaki''.

* NintendoHard: The game is already this by nature of being an arcade shooter, but it soon quickly turns ''sadistic'' with how often enemies flood the screen and their absurdly fast bullets even on the first loop. Add in a power-up system that requires three P items to level up, a slow initial plane speed, and the inability of certain weapons to effectively cover the screen, and you've got what is frankly one of the hardest shmups ''in existence'', with not even most modern BulletHell games matching it in terms of utter difficulty. Toaplan would later make a "2P" variant, which serves as an alternate build in Japan and the only release of the game in the US, with lowered enemy difficulty and the checkpoint system removed, but it's still not easy. It's rather telling that in the Genesis version, despite its Normal difficulty being tuned to be easier than arcade, the game still defaults to Easy difficulty.

* RecycledInSpace: The ''Truxton'' series, also by Toaplan.

** Once the first loop is completed, all sourced of extra lives are turned off.