Thunder Blade

Thunder Blade is a third-person shoot 'em up video game released by Sega for arcades in 1987. Players control a helicopter to destroy enemy vehicles. The game was released as a standard stand-up arcade cabinet with force feedback, as the joystick vibrates. A helicopter shaped sit-down model was released, replacing the force feedback with a cockpit seat that moves in tandem with the joystick. It is a motion simulator cabinet, like the previous Sega Super Scaler games Space Harrier (1985) and After Burner (1987). The game's plot and setting was inspired by the film Blue Thunder (1983).

Thunder Blade
Developer(s)Sega
Publisher(s)
Sega
  • Arcade
    • WW: Sega
    Computers
Composer(s)Koichi Namiki
Platform(s)Arcade, Master System, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, MSX, MS-DOS, TurboGrafx-16, X68000, ZX Spectrum, Nintendo 3DS
Release
December 1987
  • Arcade
    • JP: December 18, 1987
    • EU: January 1988
    • NA: February 1988
    Master System
    • WW: 1988
    Home computers
    • EU: December 1988
    PC
    • EU: March 1989
Genre(s)Rail shooter
Scrolling shooter
Mode(s)Single-player
Arcade systemSega X Board

Versions were released for the Master System, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, MSX, TurboGrafx-16, X68000, and ZX Spectrum. The Nintendo 3DS remake was released as a 3D Classic in Japan on August 20, 2014, in North America and Europe on May 14, 2015, and in Australia on July 2 of the same year. The sequel, Super Thunder Blade, was released exclusively for the Sega Genesis.

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