Switchblade
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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 Graphics · Kixx · Piko Interactive
- Release · Commodore C64/128/MAX
- Worldwide — 1989
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