Blade Master
Blade Master is a 1991 hack and slash video game developed and published by Irem for arcades. Two selectable heroes, Roy and Arnold, try to save their land from hordes of monsters. There are items to break and power-ups to collect, typical of this genre in the 1990s.
Blade Master
- Date
- 1991
- Genre
- fighting game
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Blade Master is a 1991 hack and slash video game developed and published by Irem for arcades. Two selectable heroes, Roy and Arnold, try to save their land from hordes of monsters. There are items to break and power-ups to collect, typical of this genre in the 1990s.
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Key facts
• Title — Blade Master • Developer — Irem • Publisher — Irem • Platforms — Arcade • Genre — Hack and slash, beat 'em up • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer • Arcade System — Irem M-92
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Gameplay
• Illustration — Gameplay screenshot
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1991
Blade Master published.
1991
Blade Master is recorded as published in 1991.
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Blade Master is associated with Japan.
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Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed Blade Master as the fifteenth most successful table arcade unit of August 1991, outperforming titles such as Vimana and King of the Monsters. British gaming magazine The One for Amiga Games reviewed Blade Master in August 1991, calling it a "masterpiece" and stating that "Irem has certainly pulled out all the stops here - beautifully crafted animated sprites, lovely backgrounds, excellent gameplay, sampled sound", and furthermore calls the combat "satisfying". In the October 1991 issue of Japanese publication Micom BASIC Magazine, the game was ranked on the number fourteen spot in terms of popularity.
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- 1.Yanma. Super Soft Hot Information: Video Game! (ビデオゲーム) - クロスブレイズ. Micom BASIC Magazine. The Dempa Shimbunsha Corporation. 111. 257. September 1991.
- 2.Akagi, Masumi. アイレム (アイヒ－エム) Irem; Irem America; B. アーケードTVゲームリスト 国内•海外編 (1971-2005). Amusement News Agency. 13–14, 120–121, 147. 13 October 2006. 978-4990251215.
- 3.Wilson, David. Kill Zone - Blade Master. Game Zone. Dennis Publishing. 1. 83. November 1991.
- 4.Cook, John. Coin Ops: Blade Master - Irem. Sinclair User. EMAP. 115. 57. September 1991.
- 5.Stokes, Doris. Dosh Eaters: Blade Master. Zero. Dennis Publishing. 25. 86. November 1991.
- 6.Amusement Press, Inc. Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos). Game Machine. 409. 25. 15 August 1991.
- 7.Cook, John. The One Arcades: Blade Master - Irem. The One for Amiga Games. EMAP. 35. 82. August 1991.
- 8.Cook, John. The One Arcades: Blade Master - Irem. The One for ST Games. EMAP. 35. 82. August 1991.
- 9.Yamashita, Nobuyuki. Super Soft Hot Information: Video Game! (ビデオゲーム) - Hot 20. Micom BASIC Magazine. The Dempa Shimbunsha Corporation. 112. 259. October 1991.
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