The Sabreman series of games was released by Ultimate Play the Game

Ultimate Play the Game

Ultimate Play The Game was a critically acclaimed video game developer of the early home computer era. "Ultimate Play The Game" was the trading name of Ashby Computers & Graphics Ltd. , a software company founded in 1982 by two ex-arcade game developers Tim and Chris Stamper...

 for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in the 1980s. Some of the installments were also released on other popular home microcomputers, namely the Amstrad CPC

Amstrad CPC

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, BBC Micro

BBC Micro

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, Commodore 64

Commodore 64

The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982.Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595...

 and MSX

MSX

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. The series stars Sabreman, who is depicted wearing khaki

Khaki

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s and a pith helmet

Pith helmet

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.

Games

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.

• Sabre Wulf
  Sabre Wulf
  Sabre Wulf is a ZX Spectrum video game developed and released by Ultimate Play The Game in 1984. The game is the first in the Sabreman series. It was written originally by Tim Stamper and Chris Stamper, and later ported to many other computer platforms...
  
  (1984), in which Sabreman must escape a large jungle maze by collecting four pieces of an amulet, while avoiding the titular wulf. Finding all four will grant access to:
• Underwurlde
  Underwurlde
  Underwurlde is a video game for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 developed and released by Ultimate Play The Game in 1984. The game is the second in the Sabreman series, following on from his adventures in Sabre Wulf. The format of the game is a 2D side view flip-screen platform game...
  
  (1984), in which Sabreman must find three weapons to defeat three guardians in an extensive system of underground caverns. This done, three exits are available, each leading to one of the following three games.
• Knight Lore
  Knight Lore
  Knight Lore is a computer game developed and released by Ultimate Play The Game in 1984. The game is the third in the Sabreman series, following on from his adventures in Sabre Wulf and Underwurlde. Unlike the earlier games in the series it used Ultimate's filmation engine to achieve a 3D look...
  
  (1984), in which Sabreman arrives at Knight Lore Castle to seek a cure for his newfound lycanthropy
  Lycanthropy
  Lycanthropy is the professed ability or power of a human being to undergo transformation into a werewolf, or to gain wolf-like characteristics. The term comes from Greek Lykànthropos : λύκος, lykos + άνθρωπος, ànthrōpos...
  
  . Collecting a number of items for the resident wizard Melkhior achieves both the cure and progress to:
• Pentagram
  Pentagram (video game)
  Pentagram is a ZX Spectrum and MSX video game released by Ultimate Play The Game in 1986. It is the fourth in the Sabreman series, following on from his adventures in Sabre Wulf, Underwurlde and Knight Lore. Similarly to Knight Lore it uses the isometric Filmation engine. The game was written by...
  
  (1986), in which Sabreman, as a newly qualified wizard himself, embarks on a quest to find the Pentagram, a powerful magic artifact. Once this is achieved Sabreman is directed to the final game in the series:
• Mire Mare
  Mire Mare
  Mire Mare is an unreleased video game by Ultimate Play The Game.Underwurlde, the second game in the Sabreman series of titles from Ultimate has three separate exits, each naming another game in the series. The first exit names Knight Lore, which was released at the same time as Underwurlde...
  
  , which was never released and about which little is known.

Sabreman has also made appearances in Killer Instinct

Killer Instinct

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(in his Knight Lore-esque "Wulf" form) and a cameo in Banjo-Tooie

Banjo-Tooie

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(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

Game Boy Advance

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. This game builds on the story from the original Sabre Wulf, the object being to collect amulet pieces to defeat the Wulf once again.

Future

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.