Fishing Derby

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Description

In Fishing Derby, your goal is to be the first of two players to catch 99 pounds of fish. Each player is on a dock at the top of the screen, and you control the fishing line in the water. By moving the fishing line up or down, you can catch the fish that are swimming by. The deeper down you go, the bigger the fish are. When you catch a fish, you need to real it in! To make the game more difficult, a shark is constantly swimming back and forth. If you have a fish on your line and it touches the shark, the shark will eat it and you then will have to catch another fish. Two difficulty levels are available, and the game can be played by one person against the computer or two players against each other.

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Atari 2600

Guy Chapman (1997)

Critic Reviews

The Atari Times	Atari 2600	Sep 20, 2001	90 out of 100	90
Atari HQ	Atari 2600	1995	8 out of 10	80
Retrogaming.it	Atari 2600	May 29, 2008	8 out of 10	80
Woodgrain Wonderland	Atari 2600	Feb 10, 2017	B	75
The Video Game Critic	Atari 2600	Jun 30, 2004	B	75
All Game Guide	Atari 2600	1998		60
VideoGame	Atari 2600	Jun, 1991		60
JoyStik	Atari 2600	Dec, 1982	4.7 out of 10	47
The Game Hoard	Atari 2600	Dec 28, 2020	3 out of 7	43
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Atari 2600	Jan, 1982	Unscored	Unscored

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High score

Fishing Derby is one of the few early Activision games that did not offer a send-away patch as a high score reward (99 points is all a player could ever get).