The Sabreman series of games was released by Ultimate Play the Game for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in the 1980s. Some of the installments were also released on other popular home microcomputers, namely the Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and MSX. The series stars Sabreman, who is depicted wearing khakis and a pith helmet.
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The story of Sabreman's adventures is not developed within the games themselves, but each game would come with an explanation of the story so far on the cassette inlay cards.
Sabreman has also made appearances in Killer Instinct (in his Knight Lore-esque "Wulf" form) and a cameo in Banjo-Tooie (in the Hailfire Peaks level), both by Ultimate's successor company Rare, before returning for another game of his own in 2004 with Sabre Wulf on the Game Boy Advance. This game builds on the story from the original Sabre Wulf, the object being to collect amulet pieces to defeat the Wulf once again.
It has been rumored that Rare was working on a racing game based on the Sabreman universe (or possibly every Rare universe), codenamed Sabreman Stampede. It was thought to be a re-worked version of the cancelled Donkey Kong Racing. The game was later canceled itself.
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