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Super Thunder Blade

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Game Genie™ Codes For Super Thunder Blade
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#CodeDescription
1DBYA-AA7YInvincible while attacking straight ahead
2DB5A-AA8YInvincible while attacking from above
3A37A-AA30Infinite lives
4AJET-AA5RInfinite continues
5AEET-AAC6Start on Stage 2
6AJET-AAC6Start on Stage 3
7ANET-AAC6Start on Stage 4
Hints For Super Thunder Blade
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1Avoid Enemy Fire: To stay out of reach of enemy fire, first select a difficulty level of Hard on the options screen. When the game begins, stay in the upper left or upper right corner and keep firing. This will only work in levels 1-3.
Cheats For Super Thunder Blade
#TypeDescription
1Level SelectAt the title screen, press A, Up, Down, Left, Right, Right, Left, Down, Up, and Start for level 2. For level 3, press A twice instead of once. For level 4, press A three times. For level 5, press A four times.
2Extra LivesUse level select to get a continue, then select OPTION. Press and hold A, B, and C simultaneously, then press Start. If you see a panda's face on the player prompt, you've been sucessful.

Excerpt from Genesis Game Guide by The Scribe

NAME:             Thunder Blade
AUTHOR/VENDOR:    Sega
RELEASED:         1988
TYPE:             Shooter
LANGUAGE:         English

PREMISE:          Action film buffs might remember the popular Hal Needham
                  1982 feature film Blue Thunder - starring Roy Scheider,
                  Randy Quaid, and Malcolm McDowell - about a supersecret
                  prototype military attack chopper being "loaned" to the
                  LAPD for field testing.  This classic Sega arcade shooter
                  was inspired by the movie, and Sega apparently licensed
                  the chopper's design from the film studio involved.  The
                  arcade game was inspired by the movie's aerial chase
                  sequences, and has you as the pilot bobbing and weaving
                  down a major city thoroughfare, ducking both air and
                  ground fire from military hardware and doing your best
                  to terminate your opponents with extreme prejudice.

IMPRESSIONS:      The Genesis version is nowhere as smooth as the arcade
                  original, and is downright jerky in places.  The levels
                  are rather short and extremely repetitive.  Get it for
                  the memories if you're a fan; others might want to pass
                  it by.  Oh, by the way - the Thunder Blade chopper seems
                  to have a habit of popping up now and again in a cameo
                  role in other Genesis games (Rambo 3 and Double Dragon 2,
                  just to name a couple).

VARIATIONS:       Super Thunder Blade is the actual title of the G/MD
                  release.  This is apparently in order to differentiate
                  it from the Master System release.  Most fans of the game
                  have not noticed any major difference between the arcade
                  and G/MD version save some minor level development
                  changes and the gameplay.

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Re: Thunder Blade (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 27 @ 07:34:27 EST

I love this game !

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Re: Thunder Blade (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Thursday, December 05 @ 07:27:02 EST

I thought this game was far too hard, the first level is good with 3D into the screen shooting, but the second level is impossible trying to dodge 3D pillars 3 at a time, so difficult after trying loads I sold the game.

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Re: Thunder Blade (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Friday, January 03 @ 08:13:45 EST


This game certainly tries ones patience. I don't know how many levels there are but I got to level 4 after many months of practice and it played like level 2 except with more pillars.. ouch.

The bosses are fun and the music is great. As its a launch game from way back in the 80's you can't expect it to grab you straight away. It's dated, unforgiving but well constructed. I think this was Naka-sans first Mega Drive project. He gave you Sonic so you should be grateful. :)

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Re: Thunder Blade (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Saturday, July 19 @ 22:04:15 EDT

I bought this off a friend called Liam in Carlisle in 1992ish for a Megadrive game at that time 6 quid didn't seem bad and he said that it would look great on my shelf with my other games, and guess what? 11 years on and the unplayable piece of crap looks terrible covered in dust on my shelf because I can't bring myself to look at the thing. steve@irving.freeserve.co.uk

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Re: Thunder Blade (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Saturday, July 19 @ 22:06:39 EDT

I bought this off a friend called Liam in Carlisle in 1992ish for a Megadrive game at that time 6 quid didn't seem bad and he said that it would look great on my shelf with my other games, and guess what? 11 years on and the unplayable piece of crap looks terrible covered in dust on my shelf because I can't bring myself to look at the thing. steve@irving6697.freeserve.co.uk

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Re: Thunder Blade (Score: 1)
by mutex on Tuesday, July 29 @ 16:42:37 EDT
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Very challenging but not impossible to beat. This was the first game I owned on megadrive and it blowed my mind at the time (he I came from master system ;-) )

Too bad they didn't keep the top down scrollers shot'em up parts of the arcade & master system version.

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