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Follow this link for info about the review system. 1 = Terrible, 5 = Awesome!

Why? Why? WHY?!!?

Sharp ShotGraphics: 4
Sound: 3
Replay Value: 1
Notes: 1- or 2-player game; what a crappy game!
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The most mindless game ever made for Intellivision has to be Sharp Shot. Even Kool‑Aid Man at least has some goal more than pressing the fire button. What a waste of a game. Visually, it's pleasing–the shaped, brown football is nice. Most of the sprites are swiped from other, good Intellivision games. That doesn't save this game. It's lame. Still, I'll post my lame scores for this lame game, in the 10 minutes I spent playing it just to generate some scores. Best Scores: Football Passing: 70; Space Gunner: 60; Submarine: 31; Maze Shoot: 29




ROM No ROM variants have been identified.
Box So far, four variations have been found.
Manual Eight variants have been identified.
Overlays Three different overlay variations are known to exist.
Label To date, three labels have been recorded.
Easter Eggs No Easter Eggs have been found.




A total of four Sharp Shot box variants have been documented.

Image Vendor Part Number Year Origin Description
Sharp Shot Box (Mattel Electronics 5638-0910-G1) Mattel Electronics 5638-0910-G1 1982 U.S.A. Trayless pocket; no part number on top; © Mattel, Inc. Hawthorne, CA on bottom; was there a previous version of the box?
Image not available. Mattel Electronics 5638-0910-G1 1982 Hong Kong Plastic tray; no part number on top; © Mattel, Inc. Hawthorne, CA on bottom; was there a previous version of the box?; NEED CONFIRMATION of details - based on bad condition images online
Sharp Shot Box (Mattel Electronics 5638-0510) Mattel Electronics 5638-0510 1982 Hong Kong French-Canadian; plastic tray; no part number on top; © Mattel Canada Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada on back; (NOTE: still shrink-wrapped, so this info may not be completely accurate)
Sharp Shot Box (Intellivision Inc. 5638) Intellivision Inc. 5638 1982 Singapore Standard Intellivision, Inc. box




A total of eight Sharp Shot manual variants have been documented.

Image Vendor Part Number Year Origin Description
Sharp Shot Manual (Mattel Electronics 5638-0920) Mattel Electronics 5638-0920 1982 U.S.A.  
Image not available. Mattel Electronics 5638-0920-G1 1982 Hong Kong Spotted, shockingly, in Hong Kong boxed copies
Sharp Shot Manual (Mattel Electronics 5638-0720) Mattel Electronics 5638-0720 1982 U.S.A. Reported and image contributed by BSRSteve; has part number similar to French-Canadian variations, but printed in U.S.A.; what strange manner of Sharp Shot manual is this?
Sharp Shot Manual (Mattel Electronics 5638-0720) Mattel Electronics 5638-0720 1982 Hong Kong French-Canadian; (it's still shrink-wrapped to the outside of a box, so possibly it's French only?)
Image not available. Mattel Electronics 5638-0121 1982 Hong Kong German version; NEED CONFIRMATION
Image not available. Mattel Electronics 5638-0131 1982 Hong Kong Italian version; title localized to "Tiro Di Precisione"; spotted in eBay auction
Sharp Shot Manual (Mattel Electronics PC-5638-0920) Mattel Electronics PC-5638-0920 1982 U.S.A. PlayCable version; I can't believe they actually put this one on PlayCable!
Sharp Shot Manual (Intellivision Inc. 5638-0920-G1) Intellivision Inc. 5638-0920-G1 None U.S.A. Accordion-style folding

The first difference between the two revisions (not pictured) is that the 'Object of the Games' page was moved from the back of the manual to the front in rev. G1.

Secondly, the screen shot for the Football Passing game was revised. Looks like the QB in the first printing had some trouble reading which players were receivers and which were cover folks.

Football Passing (original)

The Ty Detmer read (7 interceptions! OUCH!)

Football Passing (original)

The Brett Favre read (THAT's my guy!)

The third change I've noticed is that some graphics were missing on the Submarine shoot game.

Submarine (original)

Uh, what torpedoes?

Intellivision, Inc. (rev. G1)

Oh, THOSE torpedoes!





A total of three Sharp Shot overlay variants have been documented.

Image Vendor Part Number Year Origin Description
Sharp Shot Overlay (Mattel Electronics 5638-4289) Mattel Electronics 5638-4289 1982 U.S.A.  
Sharp Shot Overlay (Intellivision Inc. 5638-4289) Intellivision Inc. 5638-4289 None   Copyright information masked out
Sharp Shot Overlay (Intellivision Productions) Intellivision Productions N/A 2014 U.S.A. Part of the Supplemental Overlay Pack for Intellivision Flashback




A total of three Sharp Shot label variants have been documented.

Image Vendor Part Number Year Origin Description
Sharp Shot Label (Mattel Electronics) Mattel Electronics N/A 1982 U.S.A. Origin lower left; © M.I. 1982; &trade upper right
Image not available. Mattel Electronics N/A 1982 Hong Kong NOT CONFIRMED! (based on assumptions from a shrink-wrapped French-Canadian copy); origin lower left; © M.I. 1982; &trade upper right
Sharp Shot Label (Intellivision Inc.) Intellivision Inc. N/A 1982 Singapore Origin lower right; © I.I. 1982 to left of origin; ™ small, centered vertically on right edge; smaller label, rounded corners




Title Screen Title screen for Sharp Shot.
Football Passing Football with a brown ball.
Space Gunner Space Battle with slight changes.
Submarine Sea Battle (restricted).
Maze Shoot Oddball Advanced Dungeons & Dragons-like shooter.




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