JOE BLADE 4
Sep 03, 2020
3 minutes
Words by Martyn Carroll
IN THE KNOW
PUBLISHER: PLAYERS
DEVELOPER: PLAYERS
SYSTEM: ZX SPECTRUM
DUE FOR RELEASE: 1991
If you search some of the murkier backwaters of the internet you’ll find a Spectrum game called Joe Blade This is not the real Joe Blade 4; rather it’s a crudely hacked version of Prison Riot, another game on the Players label that was released in 1990. You can see the reasoning behind this amateur hack, as Prison Riot was extremely similar to Joe Blade 3 – Players just popped a warden’s hat on Joe’s head, and voilà, a brand-new budget game.
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