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Thunder Blade

Description

Using the vibrating joystick, fly your chopper through different stages of combat. Over land, you fly through a city, canyon or industrial zone obliterating enemy choppers and tanks. Over water you destroy boats, ships or fighter planes. In the air, by bombing a rocket. Your mission is to destroy the evil machine. Control air speed with throttle. Easy play.

Thunder Blade was produced by Sega in 1987.

Sega released 593 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1960. Sega was based in United States.

Other machines made by Sega during the time period Thunder Blade was produced include: War Ball, Slap Shooter, Gigas, Wonder Boy Deluxe, Wonder Boy, After Burner, After Burner II, Center Court, Chrono Soldier, and DakkoChan Jansoh

Specs

Name	Thunder Blade
Developer	Sega (United States)
Year	1987
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	10094
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color 19-inch Wells-Gardner 19K7901
Conversion Class	Sega After Burner
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	1
Game Play	Single
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Joystick: Analog stick with trigger - Fire Throttle Lever
Sound	Amplified Stereo (two channel)
Cabinet Styles	Deluxe/Themed (motion) - 1 Cabaret/Mini
Bezel	Thunder Blade Bezel Image
Control Panel	Thunder Blade Control Panel Image
Side Art	Thunder Blade Side Art Image
PCB	Thunder Blade PCB Image

Video Clips

SEGA ThunderBlade (arcade version)

Thunder Blade KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 5.00 (1 vote)

Fun Factor: 5.00

Overall Like	5.00
Fun (Social)	5.00
Fun (Solo)	5.00
Collector Desire	5.00

Technical Rating: 5.00

Gameplay	5.00
Graphics	5.00
Originality	5.00
Sound/Music	5.00

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Cabinet Information

In the sitdown version, the joystick doesn't vibrate. The player sits on a bright orange seat and the seat moves in sync with the non-motorized joystick (the player controls the movement of the seat). The monitor of the sitdown version is decorated with all sorts of dials and graphics to simulate the look of a real cockpit.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Thunder Blade Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 84 known instances of this machine owned by Thunder Blade collectors who are active members. Of these, 76 of them are original dedicated machines. One is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 7 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 4 active VAPS members with a Thunder Blade machines for sale.

Wanted - There are 5 active VAPS members currently looking for Thunder Blade. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Thunder Blade circuit board set.

This game ranks a 18 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 8 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Manuals

Deluxe Type Owners Manual - Thunder Blade Manual — **Deluxe Type Owners Manual**
(52 pages, 3.3 MB File)

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (6fcc83aacf7d3374993295cd37eb627b)

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