Reviews

A game I had as a kid, a game I never liked. Thunder Blade was a game I never got into at all, any time I saw it in the arcade I steered well away from it...and this game was the very reason why! Years later I've learned that the arcade game is actually pretty good and the brilliant Mega Drive game Super Thunder Blade helped with that theory, this was just a shocking port with horrible graphics and poor controls....well of course it was it was written by Tiertex...well done Tiertex! Wow this has become a running gag hasn't it?...well done Tiertex.

A superb coin-op conversion, one of the finest from Tiertex, of a game I knew well from the arcades. Taking the sheer size and speed of the original game's graphics into account, it is clear that the authors managed to pull off some clever tricks in order to let the humble Spectrum perform in a way as close as possible to the original.

As to the game itself, it is a shoot-em-up articulated in four stages, each one divided into three phases (top-down, frontal perspective and end-of-level boss). As an action title, it performs quite well on all fronts. Top notch!

I find this sort of simulators ? ? ? nauseating and boring and I wonder how on Earth can anybody play them . 1,5 / 5 .

I find it strangely addictive which doesn't make much sense because the graphics are so confusing that I can't tell what's going on most of the time and I die every few seconds.

3/5

Certainly not Tiertex's worse conversion. In fact it’s one of their more decent offerings.