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Banshee (video game)

1994 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ3634428 ↗
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Banshee is a vertically scrolling shooter released for the Amiga 1200 and Amiga CD32 in 1994 by Core Design.

Reception

Both the Amiga and CD32 versions of Banshee were released to very favorable reviews.

The game was one of Amiga Action's top 20 games of the year 1994, at No. 20. It was ranked the 39th best Amiga game of all time by Amiga Power in 1996.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1200, 1994, 1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Banshee, video and game providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Banshee (video game)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.