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Joe Blade

Credits

Released: 1987 (37 years ago)

Publisher: Players SoftwareInfo / Logos

Creator: Chris Johnson
Kevin Parker

Musician: Gary BiasilloInfo

Information

Main Control: Joystick (Port 2)

Players: 1 Only

Language: English

Retail Price: £1.99 Tape

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Used in Players Software release (1987)

Categorization

Genre: Adventure, Arcade 2D

Tags: Action, Side view, Fixed/flip-screen, Platform, Shooter

Relationship

Precursor to: Joe Blade II

YouTube Links

Longplay video (50 FPS) 18:42

AL82 Retrogaming Longplays on Feb 2, 2014

Magazine Reviews

Commodore Force, issue 9 (sep 93), p18 Release type is unknown	82%
Commodore User, issue 49 (oct 87), p45 Players Software budget release	7/10
Zzap!64, issue 31 (nov 87), p133 Players Software budget release	92%
Average magazine rating: Based on 3 magazine reviews	81%

Added by Kim Lemon, Nov 26, 2001.
Last updated Apr 18, 2024. Viewed 17310 times.

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Thelead 2023-09-10

(5/10)

As a budget game it just about gets a pass as its playable and offers a long term challenge. It is very repetitive though. Graphics and sound are fine but there are better games in the genre.

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mailman 2022-10-02

(3/10)

Every single thing in this game is wrong. The sprite looks like a ghost, the sound of shooting is after the player has given a shoot, one bullet kills all the enemy soldiers... Weak and sluggish game. Personally I think that the game is overrated.

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bronstein 2017-11-18

Pretty laid-back shoot-'em-up, where the focus is set on searching, mapping and puzzle solving. That's not my cup of tea, but may suit a rainy weekend. Graphics and sound are OK but could be better. 5/10

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tachikoma 2014-04-01

(8/10)

Wow! I have looked for weeks for the name of this game. Warms my cockles to see it again, shall have to nose around Ebay I think

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p.a. 2012-11-09

(4/10)

This could have been a nice game, even though it's slow and kind of boring. What completely ruined the gameplay, though, is one of the stupidest ideas I've ever met in any game. After using the key it disappears, but the door - when you try to go through them one more time - remains closed. Of course the key is nowhere to be found. Result - after playing for some time I got stuck in a part of the game's maze with no possibility to get out of it. Oh yes, I forgot to mention, that you can't see if the door's closed or not when the entrance is on the bottom of the screen.

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stooart 2011-01-18

(6/10)

1. 99 back in the day wasn't bad for games such as this. It had nice, bold GFX and addictive enough to find all those bombs and hostages.

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Gurt 2010-08-17

I have this on disk as well as tape.

The tape version is on the reverse side of a copy of Azimuth 3000 I found in an abandoned C2N, and I've seen CPC versions with this combination of Azimuth/Joe Blade too.

The disk version is an Australian release by ECP. It's a blister pack. The cover is a square of yellow paper with the Cassette cover cropped and blown up in the middle. But most of it is yellow. Rather ugly.

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edshot8 2010-05-11

Not too bad a game alright to pass an hour away :question:

even better on the trusty Amiga

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MRZ 2009-06-21

(5/10)

Had this game on my Azimuth casette. I never liked it, but played it some. Craaaap!

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Gurt 2008-03-24

It's games like this which made me hate Players when I was a kid.

I like most of their games now, but I still hate this. Walk very slowly, very randomly, shoot because you have to, bad guy turns into a pink skeleton for some reason, that about sums it up.

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Gorkur 2004-01-23

Bazooka Bill better than this??
Yeuck! Eugh! Barf!
Guess I'll have to stay away from this one then

Jussi Pöyhönen 2003-08-29

Joe Blade... Yet another maze game. What fun! Yes, I hate C64 maze games. The enemies don't shoot you, and the game has other strange "features".

Colin Baynham 2003-06-30

Had too laugh when I saw this, forgot I had it, what a load of crap. Bazzokaa Bill a lot better.

Gilo 2003-04-29

Considering it was a 2 quid budget title, I thought it was pretty decent. Nothing awe inspiring, but it whiled away an hour or two of my life.

TWR 2003-03-20

With simple childish graphics and poor sound this is a pure shit-game. A game-play that lasts for about 30 seconds !!!

Blade Runner 2003-03-20