History VideoGame / FeedingFrenzy

* {{Balloonacy}}: * In ''Shipwreck Showdown'', during the several levels where the playable fish can jump out of the water, there are items occasionally flying around the stage while attached to balloons.

* AnimalGenderBender: In the first game, Eddie the anglerfish is identified as male, although it's clearly female as male anglerfish are tiny and don't have a headlight.. Averted in ''Shipwreck Showdown'', where he's {{Gender Flip}}ped and renamed Edie.

* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: The second game introduces cuttlefish. They are harmless, but get scared easily and will spray ink on the player, which will interfere with the controls for a short period of time.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The game gives you the opportunity to bite a Barracuda's tail for some extra points and in the second, shrink it after enough times to be eaten for a lot of points and nutrition value. However, by biting their tail, you will provoke them that they will pursue you as opposed to passively eat whatever is in their path and unless you have a good amount of manuverability, you're going to be their number one priority food for the fish.

** ''ShipwreckShowdown'' tells players some fun facts about marine creatures after they beat a level, many of which are accurate.

* AlienInvasion: The plot of the second game.

** Most fish species are portrayed with sizes that are inaccurate when compared to their real-life counterparts. In the later levels of both games, both an oyster and a triggerfish can eat '''''orca whales'''''.

* InterfaceScrew: The mutant fish, which can be a death sentence to an unexpecting player, looks exactly like the smallest fishes in the game, only recolored green. Eating one will invert the controls. They are quite recognizable and bright in the first game, but in ''Shiwpreck Showdown'', their colours have been made darker and duller, making them a tad harder to discern from the normal fishes.

* SecretCharacter: Finish Shipwreck Showdown once and you'll be awarded with an account named "The Intruder". You can play as The Intruder there, with sucking, jaw size, and speed, all maximum. Arguably doubles as the strongest playable character.
* ShownTheirWork: The first fish to unlock the ability to suck in prey is Leon the lionfish — a species that employs this tactic in real life.
* SicklyGreenGlow: In some levels, there are some glowing green fish. They are ''radioactive'', and eating them will immediately ''reverse the controls''. This makes them a lethal threat, as unexpectantly swallowing one often leads a surprised player straight into the maw of a bigger fish.

* ThreateningShark: Most of the enemies the player encounters in both games are, as expected, sharks, including the BigBad of the first game. Averted with Goliath in the second game. He's actually a playable character who's on the good side.
* UniqueEnemy: While you get to play as a Great White Shark in ''Shipwreck Showdown'', they only appear as an ''enemy'' in the penultimate level.

The game was successful enough that it got a sequel called ''Feeding Frenzy: Shipwreck Showdown'' in 2006. Featuring improved graphics, more fishes, and all-new characters, the player must once again eat their way up the food chain as they try to discover a mystery lurking in the ocean's depth that is causing a disturbance in the oceanic food chain. Both games were later re-released in 2006 for UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} and UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}}.

''Feeding Frenzy'' is an arcade-style video game released in 2004 by Creator/PopCapGames. [[RisingUpTheFoodChainGame Basically, you take on the role of a hungry, predatory small fish who must chew his way through the food chain by eating smaller fishes.]] As you progress in the food chain, you take on the role of more bigger and powerful marine predators and must defeat the [[BigBad Shark King]].

''Feeding Frenzy'' is an arcade-style video game released in 2004 by Creator/PopCapGames. [[RisingUpTheFoodChainGame Basically, you take on the role of a small fish who must chew his way through the food chain by eating smaller fishes.]] As you progress in the food chain, you take on the role of more bigger and powerful marine predators and must defeat the [[BigBad Shark King]].

* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: The second game introduces cuttlefish. They are harmless, but get scared easily and will spray ink on the player, which will confuse you for a short period of time.

%%* FoodChainOfEvil

* MetalSlime: The Golden Herring is a very rare fish that zooms by very fast, but if you eat it, you immediately grow a size or complete the level.

* RisingUpTheFoodChainGame

''Feeding Frenzy'' is an arcade-style video game released in 2004 by Creator/PopCapGames. Basically, you take on the role of a small fish who must chew his way through the food chain by eating smaller fishes. As you progress in the food chain, you take on the role of more bigger and powerful marine predators and must defeat the [[BigBad Shark King]].

* AnimalGenderBender: In the first game, Eddie the anglerfish is identified as male, although it's clearly female. Averted in ''Shipwreck Showdown'', where he/she's renamed Edie.

** Most fish species are portrayed with sizes that are inaccurate when compared to their real-life counterparts. In the later levels of both games, both an oyster and a triggerfish can eat mother-effing '''''orca whales'''''.

* ThreateningShark: Most of the enemies the player encounters in both games are, as expected, sharks. Averted with Goliath in the second game. He's actually a playable character who's on the good side.
* AWinnerIsYou: After defeating the FinalBoss in both games, all you get is a screen congratulating you for your efforts and your overall score after finishing the game. Subverted in the second game, see SecretCharacter above.

* PainfulPointyPufferfish: The pufferfishes have the annoying habit of sporadically puffing up, revealing some nasty spikes that bounce the player fish away, withdrawing points from the player's score in the process. And since there is no MercyInvulnerability after that, the player very often bounces directly into the maws of a bigger fish.

[[caption-width-right:219:Time to climb the food chain!]]

* TheSpiny: Pufferish, when inflated, cannot be eaten--try and you'll simply bounce off in a random direction.

The game was successful enough that it got a sequel called ''Feeding Frenzy: Shipwreck Showdown'' in 2006. Featuring improved graphics, more fishes, and all-new characters, the player must once again eat their way up the food chain as they try to discover a mystery lurking in the ocean's depth that is causing a disturbance in the oceanic food chain. Both games were later re-released in 2006 for {{Xbox}} and {{Xbox 360}}.

The game was successful enough that it got a sequel called ''Feeding Frenzy: Shipwreck Showdown'' in 2006. Featuring improved graphics, more fishes, and all-new characters, the player must once again eat his way up the food chain as he tries to discover a mystery lurking in the ocean's depth that is causing a disturbance in the oceanic food chain. Both games were later re-released in 2006 for {{Xbox}} and {{Xbox 360}}.

* AlluringAnglerfish: Downplayed with Edie in ''Shipwreck Showdown''. Though it can illuminate the BlackoutBasement levels, it doesn't attrack any other fish with its light.

** Most fish species are portrayed with sizes that are inaccurate when compared to their real-life counterparts.
*** Taken UpToEleven in later levels of both games when both an oyster and a triggerfish can eat mother-effing '''''orca whales'''''.

* PoisonMushroom: The mutant fish, which can be a death sentence to an unexpecting player, looks exactly like the smallest fishes in the game, only recolored green. Eating one will invert the controls. They are quite recognizable and bright in the first game, but in ''Shiwpreck Showdown'', their colours have been made darker and duller, making them a tad harder to discern from the normal fishes.

* ThreateningShark: Most of the enemies the player encounters in both games are, as expected, sharks. Subverted with Goliath in the second game. He's actually a playable character who's on the good side.

* DegradedBoss: In the early levels of the first game, Barracudas are giant, invincible enemies who semi-regularly swim across the screen, eating everything in their path. As you move up the food chain, they get downgraded all the way to harmless baitfish. Sharks go through the same process later, although they remain high-level, if still eatable, predators.

* NuclearCandle: Edie's lure qualifies: what anglerfish can properly light up areas four times it's sizes? Even without power-ups, it illuminates far more than any real anglerfish can.

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