#irem

THE SKINHEADS HAVE TAKEN MADONNA HOSTAGE.

TAKE THE POWER INTO YOUR OWN HANDS!

Irem

Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back / Target: Renegade / Run The Gauntlet / R-Type / Star Wars

'Cross Blades!'

[ARC] [JAPAN] [MAGAZINE] [1991]

"Irem are specialists at the sci-fi horizontal scroller, right? Thousands of Spaceships, Millions of Bullets, Total Sensory Overload. Their last release, Gunforce, (reviewed last issue) only underlined that - but now we have Blade Warrior, which is that little bit different. Think of Golden Axe, but with more sophisticated graphics and you won't go very far wrong. Irem still have a long way to go in the scenario department - the protagonists being called Roy and Arnold... something like that anyway. They are charged with the task of rescuing Arnold's Sister (Fred's Girlie) from the bad guys - standard stuff, but the implementation will draw you into it. Very well done - it's a real change for Irem - rather like Walt Disney producing a film called 'Sex Slaves of Basildon.' Whatever next - Toaplan doing a cutsie bunny game, perhaps?" ~John Cook (Sinclair User, September 1991)

Innovations in recreational electronic media... but not graphic design.