Switchblade
Switchblade is a computer platform game developed by Core Design and released by Gremlin Graphics in 1989. The player guides the protagonist, Hiro, through a flip-screen platform environment with a…
Switchblade is an adventure developed by Core Design, released 31 December 1989 on Atari Jaguar, Amiga, Amstrad CPC and Atari ST/STE.
What Switchblade is
Switchblade is an adventure game developed by Core Design and released in 1989. It was published by Gremlin Graphics. It is available on Atari Jaguar, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, PC (Microsoft Windows) and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Switchblade is a computer platform game developed by Core Design and released by Gremlin Graphics in 1989. The player guides the protagonist, Hiro, through a flip-screen platform environment with a subterranean setting. Unexplored areas of the screen are obscured from view until the player character enters them. A sequel, Switchblade II was released in 1991.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Switchblade launched on 31 December 1989, within three weeks of Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris and Pipe Dream.
Released around the same time: Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris, Pipe Dream.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
Quick answers
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