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Switchblade

1989 video game
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Summary

Switchblade is a video game[1]. Switchblade ranks in the top 6% of video game entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (171 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Composer: Ben Daglish[3]
  • Publisher: Gremlin Interactive[4]
  • Genre: action game[5], platform game[6], science fiction video game[7], adventure video game[8], action-adventure game[9]
  • Developer: Core Design[10]
  • Platform: Commodore 64[11], ZX Spectrum[12], Commodore Amiga[13], Atari ST[14], Microsoft Windows[15]
  • Game mode: single-player video game[16]
  • Distribution format: digital distribution[17]
  • Review score: 90%[18]
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom[19]
  • Publication date: 1989[20], August 22, 2019[21]
  • Distributed by: Steam[22]
  • ESRB rating: Everyone 10+[23]
  • P14470: Games/Switchblade[24]

Why It Matters

Switchblade has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25]

Related Entities

Core Design Gremlin Interactive Microsoft Windows United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21d ago · Mule hollandaise · 2026-09-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Review score → 90%, 90%
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-add:1||2 */ Review score, uploading review scores from gen4; thanks Catel69 for the parsing in the first place! ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/ac96494e159"
  2. 12w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Developer → Core Design
    Instance of → —
    Instance of → video game
    Distribution format → digital distribution
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Games/Switchblade, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
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