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Crossed Swords

Crossed Swords is a hack & slash action RPG arcade game developed by Alpha Denshi and published by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade system in 1990 and Neo Geo console in 1991. Its gameplay was similar to SNK's…

25 January 1991

Crossed Swords is an arcade developed by Alpha Denshi, released 25 January 1991 on Neo Geo AES, Neo Geo CD, Neo Geo MVS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Crossed Swords is

Crossed Swords is an arcade game developed by Alpha Denshi and released in 1991. It is available on Neo Geo AES, Neo Geo CD, Neo Geo MVS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Crossed Swords is a hack & slash action RPG arcade game developed by Alpha Denshi and published by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade system in 1990 and Neo Geo console in 1991. Its gameplay was similar to SNK's earlier 1990 first-person shooter and beat 'em up game, The Super Spy, but with role-playing game elements and hack & slash combat instead of shooting and fist-fighting.[1] The game allowed cooperative gameplay with up to two players on the same screen.[1] As only the player characters' silhouettes are visible on screen as wire-frame models, much like Punch-Out!!,[2] the game's perspective may be considered either first-person[1] or third-person.[3] The game was later cited as an…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.

What it launched against

Crossed Swords launched on 25 January 1991, within three weeks of Lemmings, Sengoku, Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble III and Wings of Wor.

Released around the same time: Lemmings, Sengoku, Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble III, Wings of Wor.

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When did Crossed Swords come out?
Crossed Swords was released on 25 January 1991 for Neo Geo AES, Neo Geo CD, Neo Geo MVS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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