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 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.

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Developer

Core Design

Publisher

Gremlin GraphicsKixxPiko Interactive

Platforms

PCPC

Genres

PlatformerAdventureArcade

Themes

ActionScience fiction

Modes

Single-player

Perspectives

Side view