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Shark Attack & Shark Attack Bowling

Why is it such a shared experience we have as children that we think sharks are everywhere? When I was a little girl, I just assumed sharks were in pools, lakes, the bathtub. I was absolutely terrified of water. Was it because we all saw "Jaws" at too young an age and it made an everlasting impression on us? Whatever the case may be, it seems that kids and sharks go hand in fin, and it makes sense why a lot of kids toys are (or at least were when I was a child) shark based. But never before have I seen a shark based board game, so leave it to Milton Bradley to craft yet another inexplicable combination that shouldn't work but somehow does. Shark Attack is a board game released by Milton Bradley in 1988, designed by Eddie Goldfarb and art by Chuck Slack, two men who sound more like they're ordinary good boys who fell in with the mob through a series of comical misadventures rather than board game designers. The description of the board game is as follows: ...