Thunder Blade

Deist 2019-09-27
Amiga certainly could do far far better...

...Only Tiertex guys couldn't -- not even to save their lives.
Sad too, as the arcade original was pretty enjoyable and could have made for a neat home computer adaptation.
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Juanma 2018-11-07
(1/10)
Tiertex strikes again. Unplayable rubbish.
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doolittle 2015-12-17
(4/10)
When you see the X6800 version... Arcade perfect. Don't tell us Amiga couldn't better.
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Brunty 2012-12-19
(3/10)
I remember dying repeatedly for no apparent reason. A real shame as the concept was great.
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EvilCensor 2011-05-23
(3/10)
Bought this hoping for something playable along with a neon green Competition Pro joystick.

When I opened my Comp Pro box I found my neon green joystick was infact neon pink - oh yeah the game sucked too
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Karter 2010-01-04
(1/10)
Another Tiertex disaster! The C64 version by Chris Butler is far superior.
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Speedy-san 2009-07-30
This one makes me bite my lip in anger... WHY?? Why did they employ Tiertex for this conversion? OK granted you'll never get the same performance on an Amiga 500 as on an arcade machine equipped with multiple 68000 cpu's, but surely putting this in the hands of an ST fanboy team of coders is definitely not the way to go... A black (or at least dark grey) page in the history of Amiga games.
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Colonel Kurtz 2008-12-09
(6/10)
Compared to other Tiertex ports I didn't dislike Thunder Blade, but it should have been a lot smoother than this in order to be as much fun as the original. That goes for both framerate and controls.

I appreciated that the overhead sections preserved scaling - not all the ports had that - however they are rather painful to play. The huge top border makes it impossible to see what's about to hit you. The control method makes it very easy for speed and altitude controls to cross each other, unless you can handle the joystick with one hand and keep the other on the arrow keys, and even that was not easy to pull off. Maybe adding CD32 pad support to the WHDLoad version wouldn't be a totally terrible idea.
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Steve Wilkins 2008-02-26
(4/10)
If the control of the game wasn't so bad, it had been become a nice arcade conversion. The graphics (especially the 3D effects) were great! Nice try...
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stooart 2005-12-03
(5/10)
ST port again. I can just picture them at Tiertex making the ST version, "I know lets make our life easier by drawing a childish score display with two helicopter pilots looking mean! And it will take up quite a bit of the screen!". As you can guess this was a pet hate of mine. That aside this was just OK and I think I played the C64's more, which incidentally, could whip the ST at times too.
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rvo 2005-06-12
(2/10)
This was a terrible game but the 3D effect (which was awesome in the arcade at the time) kept me coming back to it. Presentation, controls, music and overall feeling spoiled even that after some time.
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Kriko 2005-02-12
(4/10)
There should have been a law forbidding the conversion of "graphically heavy coin-ops with average gameplay" to home computers. What was the point anyway? Sadly enough, Thunder Blade even had some gameplay in it, as opposed to Afterburner.
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steef-online 2005-02-06
(4/10)
Thunder Blade on the Amiga is crap, I'm afraid. This was a decent coin-up, but the Amiga-version is just pathetic. Graphics are bad and gameplay is awful. I didn't like the C64-version, but still it was slightly better and better playable at least.

Graphics: 4/10
Sound: 6/10
Playability: 3/10

Overall: 4/10
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DeAdLy_cOoKiE 2005-02-04
(6/10)
I loved playing this at the arcades.
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Lane 2005-02-02
(5/10)
Better than Afterburner conversion on Amiga, IMO. Still very average.
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MartinUK 2005-01-21
(5/10)
Did Tiertex ever do a competant conversion? This was pretty bad, and you could only make allowances if you loved the arcade version and didn't have a C64 or Spectrum to buy the better and cheaper versions on those systems.
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lux 2005-01-17
(5/10)
Another "masterpiece" from Tietex and another bloody ST code transplant...
Too bad!
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TWR 2004-12-27
(6/10)
Quite alright game, not as good as the arcade but not pure crap either. This was one of the first games I cracked on the Amiga, good old memories...
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Karpow 2004-12-20
(4/10)
Oh no! What could have been a great coin-op conversion is totally ruined with extremely poor playability! C64 version kicks butt seriously but Amiga Thunder Blade flies like a fly in honey bottle... DAMN!
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Maff Rignall 2004-12-13
(3/10)
Well the 3D was pretty good (if quite jerky) for the time, but the whole thing reeked of ST port-itus, and in a bad way. 3/10.
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fulgenzio 2004-12-10
(2/10)
Tiertex....i hate you!
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Trantor 2004-12-08
(2/10)
The extremely playable C64 version is much better than this Amiga catastrophy. The graphics are jumpy and the controls shaky at best. Really too bad.
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