Limited Run Games Is Bringing NES 'Jaws' To Switch In "Massively Expanded" Form

I wish Parish would leave LRG. The integrity and respect that his involvement with the company imparts, especially in the retro game community, is wholly undeserved by the business itself.

Jaws 2 was great.

Not as good as Jaws (very little is) but much better than it had any right to be.

Poor Marge.

I really enjoyed all 4 jaws movies

I liked this one back in the day except for the portions that felt unfinished/cheap (unfair). I’m very curious to see how they expand and improve it because I think there’s potential for some good fun.

No love for Jaws 5: Cruel Jaws? Unacceptable.

You can see 10 min playthroughs on YouTube. A weird choice for such a mega release imo.

I liked this game. Still have the cartridge

Legendary ripoff games. Corrupt, trash company.

A friend of mine had the NES Jaws when I was growing up, but never wanted to play it.

I hate that this is from LRG.

The only good thing about this is a potential "Jaws Revisited" AVGN episode.

@Bobb @PJOReilly On a serious note guys, is there more that 4 ?

i know Limited Run get a lot of bad press for different reasons, but some of their choices for releases has just been straight up awful in recent years. This included, obviously.

This game’s tense atmosphere frightened me as a baby shark playing in the early 90s, and yet I couldn’t resist its call. As it’s part of the mosaic of my youth in video gaming, I will likely place a preorder. It will be nostalgic — but definitely not in a cozy way — to revisit this title on Switch as a grandpa shark. Ha!

No thanks LRG. I still remember how they only licensed the Bill & Ted game for a year and quickly delisted it.

First of, full respect for watching NES Works, fantastic series.
Second, Jaws 2 is pretty good, not a patch on the masterpiece I have seen countless times and know every shot by heart, but still good.
(I secretly kinda like 3 and 4, they are so stupid it makes them fun)
Why would they do this, it's a terrible game. Who knows what the enhancements will bring though.

But will there also be a digital release?

@PKDuckman : The licence might have been unreasonably expensive, and the "collection" having too niche an appeal to recoup its licensing costs after the first year of release (as whatever little interest this release would have attracted would have significantly dwindled by then).

Sure, it sucks, but it sounds like a gripe that should be leveled to the rights holders rather than LRG.

@Gamebits : There always has been.

A celebration for the 50th anniversary, released in time for the 80th

They should release the original jaws on nes cart again.

So are there legitimate reasons to hate LRG, or do we just resent the fact that niche products aimed at collectors necessarily come with high price tags?

@Dr_Corndog There are legitimate gripes. Spotty customer service, relatively high prices for often very short and/or low quality games, etc. But it's mostly just whining about niche collectors' products with high price tags. People whine about the long times between preordering and delivery, but manufacturing doesn't even start until after the entire preorder window closes, and even as big as LRG has gotten, Nintendo is going to prioritize making Yakuza cartridges for Sega over making Jaws cartridges for LRG. Lower priority, higher turnaround time. It's, at BEST, only partly lax work on LRG's part.

I, personally, LOVED playing Jaws on my NES as a kid. I'll be skipping the big edition, but I'll def pick up the regular physical.

The idea of paying $100 for a port of an LJN game in 2025 is wild. Even the $35 regular edition.

Like most of their games there was a nugget of a good idea, some good music, and absolutely horrendous execution. I can't imagine more content and a quicksave is going to make it suddenly a masterpiece.

Then again, LJN and LRG are kind of a match made in heaven.

So is there gonna be a digital version of this as well?

I don't think Josh actually makes money on these meme ports. I think he's embezzeling from CDE and that's why projects keep getting canned

This is hilarious.

Even though the original title is based off JAWS: THE REVENGE, I love this game so much. I mean, you get to play as MICHAEL CAINE in the bonus stages!!!! Will definitely be getting this!!!

Movie tie-on for Back to the Future 4? XD
I sure did not have that on my bingo card.

I still have the NES cart. An expanded version? I'm down. I'm very down. And I love sharks, and nautical themes.

I like this game, it plays more like a classic Atari game than what you'd usually play on the NES, and it's definitely one of the better LJN published games. I could never figure out how you were supposed to beat the boss though, had to look it up on the Internet years later.

"...to incorporate aspects from four (!) of the Jaws movies, rather than just the good one."
Spoilers: the game isn't based on "the good one" =)

I love Jeremy Parish and wish his videos got more well-deserved views, so I'm thrilled you posted a link to one of his videos.

@Gamebits I am wondering about that. Will there be one?

I have the NES game, and that’s enough for me.

Jaws: Retro Edition: Enhanced Version: Bigger Boat Edition

Don’t know about the game, but JAWS is possibly my favourite movie ever made. The book is great too.

@Dogorilla 😅 I can't help but feel LRG is taking advantage of several somebody, somewhere with this one...

As an NES Jaws fan, I'll keep an eye on this and consider a digital purchase if it reviews well. But there's no chance in hell I'd squander my $$$ on a rip-off physical copy from Limited Run Games.

@SBandy1 I've got a soft spot for Jaws 3-D LOL.

The 3DS Jaws game is actually kinda fun. Not great but fun.

@vio

So do I to be fair, it had some good shark action in it. Same for Revenge, it is in no way a good movie but is in the so bad its funny territory.

But if ever a film series was the definition of diminishing returns it is Jaws!

A truly God awful game that was however kinda fun and addictive anyways. LJN made pretty bad games back then.

Did 2 game reviewers on Youtube review this game back in the day?

Maybe it’s just my nostalgia for the late eighties, but Jaws, to this day, remains one of my favorite NES games. Right up there with Friday the 13th.
An LJN licensed game had no right being as fun as it was back then!

I’m happy they left the original version of the game intact and I most definitely will be preordering this. This is the type of physical release I’m willing to wait for!

Say what you want about Limited Run but at least I’m still not waiting on preorders from 2022-2023!! Yea YOU Strictly Limited!!! 🤬🤬🤬
Isk about Jaws but I’ll be all over the Williams pinball collection Vol 1&2 without a doubt!!

@Pianomanfreak YouTube reviews? "back in the day"? For a 1987 game?
I don't think I'm understanding.

@Max_the_German But the point of these games was that you'd have to play them for a long time to figure out how to be good enough at them to be able to finish in 10 minutes.
Watching videos was something very much not possible in 1987.

@Teksette It's not that LJN didn't hire competent developers to make games (they hired developers such as Rare and Atlus) but they surely didn't give them an adequate time or resource budget.

Like 32KB program ROM wasn't a whole of space by 1985 standards, yet by the 1989 Back to the Future game, that's what LJN gave Beam Software to produce something. Not uncommon for games of that year to have four times as much space for less famous IPs.
Then again... the sequel I've heard called an American (technically Australian?) Atlantis no Nazo.

As of October 21, 2015, there were 19.

Michael Caine's all-time great quote, when someone complained to him that Jaws 4: The Revenge was garbage:

"I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific!"

We can always count on LRG to repackage a crummy game with a pile of cheap crap and charge a frigging C note. Instead of a celebratory puff piece why not brush off you journalism degrees , roll up your sleeves and nail these parisitic scumbags to the wall?

I love LRG for stuff like this. I have no interest at all, as I'm not a Jaws film superfan and I didn't like the NES game, but I love that this exists. People more casually interested can just grab it on the eShop on sale when that eventually happens.

This is one of the things I had to get used to: LRG growing from a company that took obscure digital-only games and made physical releases into a company that is also literally making these re-releases of retro games happen, and publishing them on the eShop like with Bill & Ted. I didn't have a problem with it but it seemed like a big leap.

I've seen legitimate criticism of decisions LRG has made in the past but nearly all of what I've seen is people bitching because they want something LRG is making but they want the game's original publisher to release it instead. Which is bizarre to me because in nearly every case, these are being made by LRG because the original publisher does not want to.

Bottom line, if you don't like or want their stuff, don't buy it. It really is that simple. I'm a big LRG fan and I still only buy a couple of their games a year.

I remember renting this game from Blockbuster Video a few times. It took several tries but I eventually beat it, & once I did, the game became super easy on successive playthroughs. I liked it well enough. It wasn't great, but I thought it was decent.

@mouseclicker I feel the same way. I have so much respect for him that it feels so icky that he's there

My neighbor had this game as a kid, truly awful game but in those days you'd rotate between the limited stuff you had and would play whatever was available to ya.

@anoyonmus They usually do that.