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Crossed Swords cover
Video game · 1991

Crossed Swords

Released 25 January 1991 on arcade video game machine, Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD, PC and Nintendo Switch

Developer
ADK
Publisher
SNK
Made in
Ageo, Japan
Genre
Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Arcade
Themes
Action, Fantasy
IGDB PLAYERS698 ratings

About Crossed Swords

Crossed Swords is a hack & slash action RPG arcade game developed by Alpha Denshi and published by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade system in 1990 and Neo Geo console in 1991. Its gameplay was similar to SNK's earlier 1990 first-person shooter and beat 'em up game, The Super Spy, but with role-playing game elements and hack & slash combat instead of shooting and fist-fighting.[1] The game allowed cooperative gameplay with up to two players on the same screen.[1] As only the player characters' silhouettes are visible on screen as wire-frame models, much like Punch-Out!!,[2] the game's perspective may be considered either first-person[1] or third-person.[3] The game was later cited as an…

Summary: IGDB.

Release dates

arcade video game machine25 January 1991
Neo Geo25 January 1991
Neo Geo CD31 October 1994
PC13 April 2023
Nintendo Switchlater, date unknown

Screenshots

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Sources: Wikidata, IGDB, Wikipedia's release lists.