Mega888 Fishing Games Ranked: Ocean King and the Rest of the Arcade

Fishing games have a sound all their own: the thump of cannons, the burst of coins, a crowd of players leaning over a glowing table as a giant fish swims across the screen. The genre started on the arcade floor and made its way to the phone, and on mobile game platforms like Mega888 it sits right alongside the slots.

But “ranked” is a big word. When we set out to rank Mega888’s fishing games, we hit a wall almost immediately, and how we got past it became the story of this article.

The Ranking We Couldn’t Write

The usual way to rank games is by payout, popularity or player ratings. We looked for those numbers and couldn’t find any we could trust. Mega888 doesn’t publish an official game list we could verify, let alone payout data for its fishing games. The lists that do exist come from promotion and affiliate sites, often for other platforms, and they don’t agree with each other.

We could have copied one of those lists and called it a ranking. Instead, we chose a different measure that a reader can actually rely on: how much of each game’s story can be verified from an official or documented source. The games with the clearest paper trail rank highest. The ones built mostly on unverified claims rank lowest.

It turns out that tells you a lot.

Number 1: Ocean King — The Legend With a Paper Trail

Ocean King earns the top spot because its history is genuinely documented, and that history begins in a real arcade, not an app.

Ocean King comes from IGS (International Games System), a Taiwanese company that its American distributor, Highway Games, says “was established in 1989.” In a press release announcing it would distribute Ocean King in the US and Europe, Highway Games said the machine would be “available in November, 2013.” It described Ocean King as “the biggest and most diverse cabinet in the line-up yet,” with “16 types of fish,” built as “a six player or eight player deluxe machine” where “up to 8 players can go head-to-head.” The same release named mini-games including Bomb Crab, Twister and Chain Thunder.

The sequel followed quickly. Highway Games lists Ocean King 2: Monster’s Revenge with “Year Released: 2014,” calling it “the official English version sequel to the video redemption and fish hunter game, Ocean King.” Players “aim with joystick, fire weapons using ‘SHOOT’ button, and change guns using the ‘WEAPON’ change button.” The game added four bosses: a Prehistoric Giant Crocodile, Night Monster, Overlord Crab and Deep Sea Octopus.

That’s a real lineage with real dates. What we couldn’t confirm is exactly which version of Ocean King appears on Mega888, or how closely it matches the arcade original.

The Turning Point: What the Arcade Papers Reveal

Here’s the detail that changed how we think about every fishing game on this list.

Fishing games look like skill games. You aim, you shoot, you choose your weapon. The Highway Games press release even says Ocean King “demands quick thinking, skill and co-ordination.” But the same distributor’s product page for Ocean King 2 lists an operator setting called the “Payout function,” which lets the machine’s operator adjust “odds and chance levels, plus many more.”

In other words, the arcade version’s results aren’t decided by aim alone. The odds are a setting chosen by whoever runs the machine. On a phone app, there’s no published setting for players to look at at all.

That’s the most important thing a fishing game fan can know. Your reflexes shape the experience, but they don’t control the payout. Play these games for the fun of the hunt, set your budget before the first shot, and never treat a good aim as a reason to chase losses.

Number 2: Jackpot Fishing — Officially Listed, Not Fully Explained

Our second-ranked title is Jackpot Fishing from JILI, a slot and fishing game provider.

Jackpot Fishing ranks here because it appears on JILI’s own official website. JILI lists its publish time as “2019.09” and describes it as “Super prizes right in front of you!” The page says “high odds species appears anytime and anywhere with random extra 5x multipliers after captured,” and lists special features including a “Jackpot Wheel.”

What the official page doesn’t give is an RTP figure. And we couldn’t confirm that Jackpot Fishing is part of the Mega888 line-up specifically. So it’s verified as a real game from a real provider, but its place on Mega888 and its numbers remain open questions.

Number 3: The CQ9 Fishing Range — Real Studio, Hidden Titles

Third place goes to the fishing games from CQ9 Gaming. Here the provider is real and openly offers fishing games, but the individual titles are harder to pin down.

CQ9’s official website describes its fishing games with features such as an “Original Circular fisheye design,” “Multiplayer” play and a “High multiplication boss.” Review sites credit CQ9 with titles like Fishing God. But we couldn’t find those individual titles listed on the pages of CQ9’s site we were able to read. So we know the studio makes fishing games. We just can’t verify the specific names from the source.

Number 4: The Rest of the Arcade — Names Without Documents

At the bottom of our ranking sit the fishing titles that circulate mostly through review and promotion sites. One Malaysian review site, for a different platform, lists games such as Mega Fishing, Happy Fishing and All-Star Fishing (credited to JILI), Fishing War (credited to Spadegaming) and Dragon King (credited to JDB).

We tried to confirm each of these on the provider’s own website. We found none of them on the pages we could read. Some provider sites load their game lists in ways we couldn’t access, so “not found” doesn’t mean “not real.” But it does mean that, for now, these games come with names and claims and very little documentation.

That same review site also makes bold claims about fishing games, including multipliers “ranging from 2x to 1000x” and a house edge “estimated at 5-8%.” It gives no method or source for those figures, so we’ve left them unverified.

Mega888 Fishing Games: How to Read Any Ranking You See

The most useful thing this ranking can give you isn’t a winner. It’s a way of thinking.

When a website tells you which Mega888 fishing game “pays the most,” ask where the number came from. Is it from the game’s developer? From a regulator or a testing lab? Or is it simply stated, with nothing behind it? If even a well-known title like Ocean King has its odds set as an adjustable operator setting in its arcade form, a confident payout claim with no source deserves very little trust.

Before you play any fishing game, read its in-app help screen. Check the shot cost, and decide in advance how many shots you’re willing to fire. When that budget is gone, the session is over, no matter how close the boss fish seemed.

Questions Readers Ask

Who made Ocean King?

Ocean King comes from IGS (International Games System) of Taiwan. Its distributor Highway Games announced the arcade cabinet in 2013, with Ocean King 2: Monster’s Revenge following in 2014.

Are fishing games based on skill or luck?

They involve aiming and timing, but the arcade version of Ocean King 2 includes an operator “Payout function” that adjusts “odds and chance levels.” Skill shapes the experience, not the payout.

Which Mega888 fishing game has the best payout?

We couldn’t verify payout figures for any fishing game on Mega888. Claims you see online usually come without a source.

Is Jackpot Fishing a real JILI game?

Yes. It’s listed on JILI’s official website with a publish date of September 2019, though no RTP is given there.

The Catch Worth Keeping

We set out to rank Mega888’s fishing games and ended up ranking something more useful: the truth behind them. Ocean King stands at the top not because it pays more, but because its story can be checked, from a Taiwanese studio to the arcades of 2013 to the multi-player cabinets that made fishing games famous.

The rest of the arcade is still swimming in claims. That’s alright. You don’t need every answer to enjoy the game. You only need to know which answers are real, and to set your own limits before the cannons start firing.