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Thunder Blade
1987 video game
Thunder Blade[lower-alpha 1] is a third-person shoot 'em up video game released by Sega for arcades in 1987.[8][3] 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.[9] It is a motion simulator cabinet, like the previous Sega Super Scaler games Space Harrier (1985) and After Burner (1987).[8] The game's plot and setting was inspired by the film Blue Thunder (1983).
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,[10] in North America and Europe on May 14, 2015,[11] and in Australia on July 2 of the same year.[12] The sequel, Super Thunder Blade, was released exclusively for the Sega Genesis.