Blinx: The Time Sweeper
| Blinx: The Time Sweeper | |
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| Developer(s) | Artoon |
| Publisher(s) | Microsoft Game Studios |
| Director(s) | Naoto Ohshima |
| Producer(s) | Katsunori Yamaji Earnest Yuen |
| Programmer(s) | Takuya Matsumoto |
| Artist(s) | Masamichi Harada |
| Writer(s) | Soshi Kawasaki |
| Composer(s) | Mariko Nanba Keiichi Sugiyama |
| Platform(s) | Xbox |
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| Genre(s) | Platform |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Blinx: The Time Sweeper is a 2002 platform game developed by Artoon and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox. Advertised as "The World's First 4-D Action Game", the game focuses on the titular character, an anthropomorphic cat called Blinx, who is on a mission to prevent the end of World B1Q64 and rescue its princess from the evil Tom-Tom Gang. Blinx is outfitted with the TS-1000 Vacuum Cleaner, with which he can slow, speed up, record, reverse, and stop time. Blinx was intended to be a mascot character for Microsoft to use to compete against Nintendo's Mario, Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog and Sony's Ratchet in the sixth generation of video game consoles (GameCube, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2 and Xbox).
A sequel, Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space, was released in 2004.