Thunder Blade is an arcade shooter released for the Sega Master System, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, MSX, TurboGrafx-16, and ZX Spectrum. The player controls a helicopter using guns and missiles to destroy enemy tanks, helicopters, etc., to save his home country. Levels are in both a top-down and third-person perspective view. The boss levels are in the top-down view. The game's plot and setting resembles the 1983 film and 1984 tv series of Blue Thunder. Thunder Blade later got a follow-up called Super Thunder Blade.