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Great Swordsman

Released: 1984

Pitch: Prove yourself the greatest swordsman in the world.

Great Swordsman is basically a fencing simulator. You can move left and right and attack high, mid, and low. That's it. There is definitely some strategy with timing and what attacks expose certain parts of your body but it's not too deep. Coolest thing that happened while I was playing was I somehow knocked my opponent's sword from his hand once and it flew up and hit his own head. That was a neat moment.

There are multiple themed stages but I couldn't get past the third opponent of the fencing stage.