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Gunblades

Tools concept

Weapons that are primarily designed for melee combat but have functionality of a gun or are otherwise capable of being used as projectile weapons (such as through magic). Commonly appear as swords, but can be anything.

52
games
17
platforms

Alternate names: Pistol swords, Gun swords
Name variations: shooting swords

Fragments of Power (Linux)
Fragments of Power
LIN ? *
X-Blades (Windows)
X-Blades
WIN 2007-11-23
Classic NES: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (Game Boy Advance)
Classic NES: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
GBA 2004
Tales of a Princess (Linux)
Tales of a Princess
LIN 2012-10-05
X-Blades (PlayStation 3)
X-Blades
PS3 2007-11-23
Souls of Wisdom (Linux)
Souls of Wisdom
LIN 2011-06-14
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
NES 1988-12
Hexen (Macintosh OS Classic)
Hexen
MAC 1995
BS Zelda (Linux)
BS Zelda
LIN 2015
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Super Nintendo)
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
SNES 1991-11-21
ORiGiN (Linux)
ORiGiN
LIN 2007-09-29
Path of Shadows (Linux)
Path of Shadows
LIN 2012-02-02
These all look like melee weapons. Otherwise use bayonet or something, guns with bayonets do not count for this tag.

NOT limited to swords as there are cases of axes and hammers that do the same.

Popular tags

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Parent groups

Mêlée weapons, Multi-tools, Ranged weapons

Games by year

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The first Gunblades video game was released in 1981.

Nintendo, Armageddon Games and Square published most of these games.

Related sites

Wikipedia article on "Pistol sword"
Related trope at TV Tropes (Swiss Army Weapon)

Platforms

Linux 24
NES 5
Windows 3
GBA 3
MS-DOS 3
Famicom Disk System 2
SNES 2
PS 1
GameCube 1
PS3 1
X360 1
Mac OS Classic 1
GP2X 1
3DS 1
Apple II E 1
Atari 2600 1
GBC 1

Most common companies

Nintendo11
Armageddon Games4
Square2