

1990 · Atari Games · Arcade · Science
ThunderJaws
You are a member of an underwater special forces unit and have been selected to infiltrate Madam Q's headquarters and stop her demented plans before she can destroy the world
- Released
- 3 June 1990
- Platforms
- Amstrad CPCArcadeAtari STCommodore 64ZX Spectrum
- Genres
- ArcadeScience
- Developers
- Atari Games
- Publishers
- Domark Software
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Themes
- Action
- Country
- United States
About
ThunderJaws is a run and gun video game released in arcades by Atari Games in 1990. Home ports by Domark were published in 1991.
Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
The platforming game has two types of gameplay throughout each stage. The first is an underwater zone, where the player dives and swims through the level and looks for an exit to reach the other type of gameplay; the base zone, where the player walks and jumps across platforms (similar to Rolling Thunder) until an important destination is reached.
The player is armed with a speargun to eliminate enemies but can acquire better weapons with limited ammo either found on the ground or randomly from an enemy killed. Enemies consist of divers, mutants and robots. At the end of various levels, the player is faced with a boss, defeated by repeatedly shooting its weak points.
Story
A secret agent is on a mission to stop the mad mutation experiments of deranged Madame Q, but is required to venture through the aquatic laboratories and bases to find and eliminate her.
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Collections2 collections
Platform libraries
- Amstrad CPC games
- Atari ST gamesCommercial games
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