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.

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

1st Quest Revamp

LIN 2002

The Titan's Quest

LIN ? *

Final Fantasy VIII

PS1 1999-02-11

Zelda no Densetsu II: Link no Bouken

FDSY 1987-01-14

Classic NES: Zelda II: The Adventure of

GBA 2004

LIN 2013-12-31

LIN 2008-12-04

X360 2007-11-23

DOS 1995-10-30

WIN 2007-11-23

DOS 1999

Classic NES: The Legend of Zelda

GBA 2004

The first video game about Gunblades was released on February 21, 1986.

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

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.

Parent groups

Mêlée weapons, Multi-tools, Ranged weapons

Related sites

Wikipedia article on "Pistol sword"

Platforms

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

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