Sabre Wulf a 1984
action-adventure game by
Ultimate Play the Game and the first game of the
Sabreman series. The player, as Sabreman, navigates a 2D jungle
flip-screen maze aiming to reconstruct an amulet and escape. The maze is divided into 256 edge-to-edge screens filled with colourful flora and enemies that spawn randomly. Ultimate released the game for the
ZX Spectrum in 1984 at an above-average price to combat piracy. The game's premium packaging became a company standard. Ultimate, a developer known for its secrecy, had finished
Sabre Wulf sequels in advance of its release, but withheld them for marketing purposes. They were swiftly released the same year. Ultimate hired outside developers to make
Sabre Wulf ports for the
BBC Micro,
Commodore 64, and
Amstrad CPC platforms, and the game was subsequently included in multiple compilation releases, including the 2015 Ultimate and
Rare retrospective
Rare Replay.