Switchblade (video game)

Switchblade
Developer(s) Core Design
Publisher(s) Gremlin Graphics
Designer(s) Simon Phipps[1]
Composer(s) Ben Daglish
Platform(s) Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad GX4000
Release date(s) 1989
Genre(s) Platform game
Mode(s) Single player

Switchblade is a computer platform game developed by Core Design and released by Gremlin Graphics in 1989.

The game was released for the Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64[1] and Amstrad CPC formats. An enhanced port of the latter for the Amstrad GX4000 console was released in 1991.[2]

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.[3]

A sequel Switchblade II was released in 1991.[4][5]

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