Yet another forgotten game

[Holley]

Ok games gurus, I can remember a game I played a couple of times on a friend's Amiga in about '92, but can't remember the title or publisher! This is what I remember about it:

A generic vertical scolling shoot 'em up, worked on KS 1.3 in 1Mb off one disk, in two player one person got to drive a jeep on the ground and the other got a helicopter.  IIRC it started out going through military complexes in a desert.

Any ideas?  (bonus points for anyone who can name the Sequel to Switchblade on the Amstrad, that featured a wizard as the main character :-)).

[Holley]

Aaargh! yes :-) and it seems so obvious now ...

Thanks!

[Holley]

The graphics were better, but next to nothing actually used them (best was a basic blitter, IIRC 'Burnout' used the extras in the title sequence on the GX4000 cartridge, the rest of the game was LeMans 24 Hours direct from the old CPC).  I think there were some games that made proper use of it released in France, or so I read in Amstrad Action's dying days!

My other half still has her 464 & colour monitor, in the past I've owned a 464, 6128 and 6128 Plus, I still have some 3" disks kicking around.

The Switchblade sequel I was talking of wasn't SwitchbladeII, which was never released on the CPC.  It used the same clever engine (11 colours on screen in high res, the emulators still can't pull it off!), and instead of throwing knives etc you got fireballs and stuff ...

[Holley]

The word 'Crypt' rings a bell, and the demo looked great on my old greenscreen! (only ever had the demo)  I'll look for that on the web later :-)

[Holley]

Here we go :-)

[Holley]

Nope, it was definately SWIV :-) I remembered it as soon as I read it! I'll have a look at Silkworm though, as with many old games I remember SWIV as being better than it really was :-(

[Holley]

Or S ilk W orm I V (ie. Silkworm4 with roman numerals).