I dunno know about you guys, but if I had a pet that touched radioactive sludge and grew to be larger than a car, I probably wouldn't follow him into the bottomless hole that suddenly appeared in the yard.
But then you'll miss out the adventure, the alien wife, the kids,then getting killed by the lightening beings in the PS1 sequel's intro... You might have a point there..
I wouldn't follow under those circumstances, but if the frog was actually a robotic drone and I knew there was an unconscious android woman somewhere down there, I would probably go.
Not sure if it was overlooked or done on purpose. Either way, employing the use of a game genie and an nes advantage is incredibly helpful. And then you still need to set aside about 2 hours or so if you plan on trying to beat it.
This is one of the few games, and certainly one of the first, to ever get homing missiles correct. The acceleration is spot on, and the way they slow as they turn and then re-accelerate to chase their prey is the kind of attention to detail that is rare in video games even today. It’s one of the few games that ever felt like something out of Robotech. I agree with you about how Wall 1 & 2 ruin jumping, but I still love this game even today. Stage 8 is so creepy. That music is just so weird. I love it.
This game was most well thought out by a genius. Faxanadu is another really good one set in medievil Europe in this World Tree where the Evil One threatens their kingdom so a young hero sets out on a quest.
this game was a BLAST to play as a kid. bangin soundtrack, great controls (well with lots of practice), wall walking was frustratingly awesome. the game was downright cruel at times which imo made it more rewarding to complete than many other games. sunsoft truly shone!
the feels this just gave me... i forgot the name for so long but just seen an emulation video with it just the title... and i knew instantly that this was the game i was looking for, and it was already on my steam deck i just couldn't find it or remember it
It's really to the credit of this game that the recent Blaster Master Zero trilogy stuck so closely to the strong core gameplay and mechanics of this original, but to those reboots' credit they really polished and built upon what's here to make it feel modern. Of course, the Zero games are really their own thing when it comes to the graphics, story and music, and imo more power to them for that! I never got far in this original as much as I love playing around in it, but I've beaten and love the heck out of the Zero series.
Bought this game at a used game store in the early 90s for like $10. Had no idea what it was about and was blown away when I found out you could play as the kid and not just in the car.
Wholeheartedly agree on the review after going through this game for the first time. My completion time was 4hrs 15mins, my poor NES worked overtime. And man, someone at Sunsoft was really a fan of those weird shooting patterns. In many instances, a well-upgraded gun is worse than a fine, long-range level 2 gun.
8 year old me loved this game. First game I ever bought with my own money I got for a birthday gift. My mom was like “are you sure you want to spend your money on this game?”
I got this game Christmas 1989. Actually beat it too as a kid. Haven't played it in over 30 years. Man I love my NES, and all those wonderful memories.❤
I'll be 50 later this year. I gotta say it's great to see other fans play this game that I played religiously every Friday night after school until I beat it. Thank you for playing such a memorable game and I'm glad you enjoyed it 👍🏾
we had a big radioactive tub of random crap in out backyard too. I didn't get a crazy adventure to find my frog, all I got were a bunch of vestigial limbs and an odd glow
This game took so long to play, I could never beat it. And being the sole member of my peer group that owned and played it, I always wondered if Jason got his frog back. 35 years later, I know now that he did. Thank you for this ❤
I still remember how to beat this game after all these years. I turn 53 this year !!! I bought this game when it came out in 1988. It was one of my favorites.
I feel that way about Journey To Silius. It was on the bottom shelf at my local Blockbuster video. I picked up the box and looked at it a few times but never rented it. That would've been a nice surprise back then.
1988 what a great time to be alive. I didn't have an NES until around 1990, but had friends that did and this was one of the games that we rented a few times and never beat. I actually didn't beat this game until a few years ago when it came onto the NSO. I have a physical copy though because I have always loved it so much.
I don't know exactly why but I always loved the music in the little intro to the game where Jason loses his pet frog. All the music in this game is pretty good though.
Great game. In my top 3 for nes. Still own the cartridge I got for the holidays that year as a kid. Wasn't able to beat it until I was much older. The last few levels and the level 6 boss was really difficult.
This takes me back! I remember getting this and Dragon Warrior for Christmas in 1988. Played this for three weeks straight before becoming obsessed with Dragon Warrior.
I still find it highly amusing that the Zero trilogy combines the stories of not only both this AND the Japanese versions.... but also the Worlds of Power novel, to boot. Like wow, that's some dedication to the lore there, if I do say so myself.
I got here the moment after your Fester`s quest video 💪 Mannn the nostalgia is STRONG in the Sunsoft univers , for me that is 🤘🤘 you have a new subscriber ✌
Opening Cutscene: Jason: Who’s the best frog in the world?! It’s you! It really is! Frog: Ribbit! Thanks, Jason! Jason: Wanna play hide-and-seek with me? Frog: Sure! Jason: Okay! Hop and hide! Frog: I have a good hiding place. Jason: Wait! What are you doing?! Don’t go near that radioactive chemical plant! Frog: Whoa! What’s happening to me?! I feel so big and powerful! Ooh! A hole! I’m going go in there! I bet there might be some delicious bugs! Jason: Hey! Come back here! It’s dangerous out there! Come out of that hole! You’re a frog, not a gopher! I guess I have to follow my frog! I don’t want him to get hurt. Hey look, it’s my tank Sophia III! It’s time to take her for a spin and rescue my pet frog! I’M COMING, FROGGY!
@@AllenStewart-mc8zk It's beatable even with zero gun, but it takes a horribly long time and pretty much requires holding A while you spam B. (Holding A keeps you facing the same direction when you move.)
It had a glitch where if you paused it while hitting it with your grenade it would cheat and spam him with fire until dead. In fact, this little cheat worked for every other boss....2, 4, 6, and 8..
You basically hit the nail on the head on how I feel about Blaster Master. It's unique and I respect the hell out of it, but I don't find it super fun to play
I agree as well! I tried Metafight too, and while it starts on a high note, the later sections have questionable design choices, and Wall 2 disrupts the pace a lot due to the ledges problem. It's still a gorgeous game to look at with great tunes (not all of them though, some compositions sound uninspired) and a great premise with it's gameplay. Recently started BMZ1 and it's been a joy up to where I stopped, I love how they updated the core design of the original game, and I'm curious with the sequels too.
I distinctly remember going to a friends house and he had rented two games. Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Blaster Master. Blaster Master felt like a masterpiece after spending hours failing to decipher what Roger Rabbit even was. I like to remember it that way and never play it again.
I have a lot of fun with this until right around the end as Kenji said. The room full of spikes in Area 8 is never fun. It's also a bit disappointing that there's really no reason to go into any of the overhead areas once you know which ones lead to bosses of the Areas. I'm glad the Zero trilogy rectified this. I think I prefer the first Blaster Master Zero over this aside from the difficulty being way too low (and a bit too high on Ultimate mode). It's extremely fun to play though.
YES MY GUY!!! YOU FINALLY MADE THIS VIDEO!! Thank you so much dude I’ve been waiting for you to do this game sense I found your channel Just finished watching this, thanks again dude. My Buddy and I could never beat the game and always had to get his dad to beat it for us
This is my favorite hidden gem. Its not UNKNOWN but not a top tier favorite. Nor is it a top tier game but its close. Controls are spot on great music... if it was a little less "where the heck do you go and what do you do?" It would be in my top 5. As it is top 10.
For sure! This game was really tough as a 7 or 8 year old! (Tough as an adult too!) I remember being able to make it to area 5 and never beating that stage. ...and the music and ambience from area 4 used to put me in a "dark" headspace as a kid! That music was super depressing to me for some reason! lol
A real TV puncher/control biter for me. Under 10 yrs old when I played this. Cmon! Dont act like u didnt pitch a fit every now and then and do something crazy playing these games as a kid. LOL
You know, there's a cool trick that can be used on four of the bosses where you launch a grenade, then pause at the right time, wait a few seconds, and unpause to defeat those bosses easily.
One of my favorite things about this game is when you upgrade your main gun and it fires like this. 25:25 Destroys everything in the area. Sadly if you get hit you lose it slightly.
>Enjoying frog >Frog then escapes from terrarium and suddenly touches radiation and becomes a giant >Frog then enters a giant hole >Follow it and suddenly find a strange vehicle that's been hidden underneath the farm the whole time >Becomes Blaster Master >Refuses to elaborate >Blasts
Sunsoft was grossly underrated as a game developer. They had great titles with awesome graphics and soundtracks ( Batman, Gremlins, etc..) Blaster Master is no exception to this
Not in their time. Today the Playstation generation may never heard of them, but any NES owner not only knew them well, but held them in high regard, like Konami or Capcom. In the 16 bit era they started to decline to be almost forgotten by the time of the Playstaion/Saturn/N64 generation, because they were not a hit machine anymore.
If only the US version had unlimited continues like Japan, and the game in general allowed you to keep your power ups even after getting hit, as well as proper implementation of the Metroidvania concept..... I'd actually like this game. Not just the music, which is the ONLY thing I like about this game at all.
@@magoid I agree. After this and Batman, I trusted the Sunsoft name. Like with Nintendo, Capcom, and Konami, I could pick up one of their games not knowing anything about it and be confident that I wasn't wasting $40, and they never betrayed that confidence. On the NES, at least. They (and the development houses they closely worked with in this era) developed so few of the SNES games that Sunsoft published, and though most of them were at least somewhat okay, they were rarely on par with their 8-bit carts.
@@NintendoComplete True, guess there's a reason almost nobody remembers the Genesis sequel to the Western release; even though it plays somewhat better, I'd say it's also a more milk-toast experience (wasn't made by Sunsoft directly either IIRC). In general, the last games from Sunsoft I "really" enjoyed, based on the release dates, were Gimmick! and Trip World. They had some interesting adventure games in Japan early on too, like Ripple Island... but yeah, from mid-90s onwards (or even a bit earlier) they had stopped making really great games. Oh well.
at 12:24 I always wondered how you killed these wall faces. Answer: you have to use the weapon you get after killing the first boss. I never knew. Tells you how far I made it playing? LOL
"For the original Blaster Master I came up with the title, designed the opening, handled the map design and layout, did the boss design... aside from the game's character design I was pretty much involved in all areas of the game's production. We were trying to make the best action game to date, with all that entails. With Sophia (the game vehicle), we wanted to bring to life a sense of action that incorporated all 360 degrees of the environment in a way that players hadn't really experienced up to that point. Along with that, we wanted large, expansive maps so that we could support that vision. Graphically we tried to push the limits of what the NES was capable of, and one way we tried to express that was with the game's bosses. We wanted to really emphasise a sense of scale, bring out the difference between Jason, the small character that the player was controlling, and these massive boss characters that players wouldn't expect to appear on the hardware at that time - having these giant, imposing bosses that would feel overwhelming on the screen, and then evoking in the player that great feeling of success from overcoming what felt like an insurmountable battle." -- Yoshiaki Iwata (game designer and programmer, Sunsoft)
I use to have nightmares about this game. I really mean nightmares of me falling into hole and having to fight ,run to survive. I was about 4 yrs old 😂
Imagine how much more popular this game would have been if it had been designed as a battery backup game and not....this. This was way too hard. Unless you owned it and dedicated a few weeks to it.
This game is a classic. Especially, with that music in the first level. Not my favorite Sunsoft game, but I like this one a lot. I prefer the Japanese version with its unlimited continues.
Dev Manager: Ok guys the game is done. We just need a plot or a reason for the main character why he's doing this. Devs: How bout his frog jumped into a nuclear radiator thingy and he found a mobile underground so... he then starts the adventure?
Such an odd story... lol BUT seriously an amazing game and a highly treasured relic from my childhood. edit: also, the BGM from area 4 is so eerie and has such a "depressing" feel to it, imho... it used to literally cause me to have nightmares as a kid. Amazing... especially for an 8 bit track!!
Man I love watching this. I still have it and an nes advantage. If I can revive my old nes, it's on!!! I've only beat it twice. Both times with the game genie infinite lives code. I still stand by that decision. It's a long way to area 8, and having to end the game there really sucks.
Dude there is no shot you got the best RNG at 1:42:45 standing there shooting your wave beam and not taking a single hit is wildly lucky like max even!
My god! I used to have a pet frog as a kid, but I was never THAT attached to it. I would have just got another one instead of venturing into a subterranean world full of mutants in an experimental tank.
Everything my dad and I would go to Video Plus, this is the one game he'd always rent for me. It was so much fun as a kid. Thanks dad ❤
special times
I dunno know about you guys, but if I had a pet that touched radioactive sludge and grew to be larger than a car, I probably wouldn't follow him into the bottomless hole that suddenly appeared in the yard.
No sense of adventure
But then you'll miss out the adventure, the alien wife, the kids,then getting killed by the lightening beings in the PS1 sequel's intro...
You might have a point there..
I wouldn't follow under those circumstances, but if the frog was actually a robotic drone and I knew there was an unconscious android woman somewhere down there, I would probably go.
Just who on Earth keeps radioactive material in their front lawn?
But, Come on! That's the *_adventure!_*
hey, I'm 41 and remember this game. Thanks for the flashback. It's amazing how much the nostalgia affects me as an adult. Great channel btw.
39 playing it through for the first time in 25 years
Me too, man :) Thank you!
This is one of those NES era games that would have been much more tolerable with a password or battery back up
I've thought that for years. Enter a password and start at the very beginning. Then it's up to you to remember where you were going to.
Exactly. They did it with Zelda, punch-out and others. I don't see why they overlooked this one.
I can safely say that this is probably why i never beat this one.
Not sure if it was overlooked or done on purpose. Either way, employing the use of a game genie and an nes advantage is incredibly helpful. And then you still need to set aside about 2 hours or so if you plan on trying to beat it.
The downside to this is 4 continues and you’re done. No warning
Blaster Master was a top five game for me back in the 80s. I played it so much, I still remember how I tackled each level.
Have you ever played the 2017 reboot? Blaster Master Zero and then there's two sequels
Me too
I always thought they should've made this into a movie.
metafight better me
@@victoriousmaximus6672what console
This is one of the few games, and certainly one of the first, to ever get homing missiles correct. The acceleration is spot on, and the way they slow as they turn and then re-accelerate to chase their prey is the kind of attention to detail that is rare in video games even today. It’s one of the few games that ever felt like something out of Robotech.
I agree with you about how Wall 1 & 2 ruin jumping, but I still love this game even today. Stage 8 is so creepy. That music is just so weird. I love it.
This game was most well thought out by a genius. Faxanadu is another really good one set in medievil Europe in this World Tree where the Evil One threatens their kingdom so a young hero sets out on a quest.
The music from area 4 used to literally make me feel lonely and depressed when I was a kid! This game is one of the "all-time greats" for sure, imho.
Lol what the fuck Faxanadu is not set in medieval Europe, what the hell are you talking about?@@Worldofourown2024
this game was a BLAST to play as a kid. bangin soundtrack, great controls (well with lots of practice), wall walking was frustratingly awesome. the game was downright cruel at times which imo made it more rewarding to complete than many other games. sunsoft truly shone!
the feels this just gave me... i forgot the name for so long but just seen an emulation video with it just the title... and i knew instantly that this was the game i was looking for, and it was already on my steam deck i just couldn't find it or remember it
It's really to the credit of this game that the recent Blaster Master Zero trilogy stuck so closely to the strong core gameplay and mechanics of this original, but to those reboots' credit they really polished and built upon what's here to make it feel modern.
Of course, the Zero games are really their own thing when it comes to the graphics, story and music, and imo more power to them for that! I never got far in this original as much as I love playing around in it, but I've beaten and love the heck out of the Zero series.
1:16:20 this guy has been removed forever from Bmz
The Blaster Master Zero Trilogy is a prequel to Blaster Master Blasting Again for the PlayStation.
Did you ever play the dlc for the zero series? :D
@@Blue_desərt Nah he's in BMZ, he's just significantly less dangerous and obnoxious as a design
@@syrelian Nope, wrong. This Ice Guy is not revamped as Icy Crabullus in BMZ, even not at least in reappearing bosses in Area 9
Seeing this made me realize how close I never was to beating it
For reals.😂 like how was I supposed to know as a 10 year old I needed to go back to are 1! Most games were linear. What a masterpiece.
holy crap nostalgia for this game hit me hard at 1am im happy someone is still playing it at least i know what the other levels look like! 😂😎
One of the best NES games ever. This and Guardian Legend I still play often.
2 of the best ever
Bought this game at a used game store in the early 90s for like $10.
Had no idea what it was about and was blown away when I found out you could play as the kid and not just in the car.
Wholeheartedly agree on the review after going through this game for the first time. My completion time was 4hrs 15mins, my poor NES worked overtime.
And man, someone at Sunsoft was really a fan of those weird shooting patterns. In many instances, a well-upgraded gun is worse than a fine, long-range level 2 gun.
Everything is so lush about this game from the graphics detail and background to the music that it's incredible it's an NES game
8 year old me loved this game. First game I ever bought with my own money I got for a birthday gift. My mom was like “are you sure you want to spend your money on this game?”
good move. you bought an experience
Respect to your financial discipline at such a young age.
I got this game Christmas 1989. Actually beat it too as a kid. Haven't played it in over 30 years. Man I love my NES, and all those wonderful memories.❤
I'll be 50 later this year. I gotta say it's great to see other fans play this game that I played religiously every Friday night after school until I beat it.
Thank you for playing such a memorable game and I'm glad you enjoyed it 👍🏾
we had a big radioactive tub of random crap in out backyard too. I didn't get a crazy adventure to find my frog, all I got were a bunch of vestigial limbs and an odd glow
This game took so long to play, I could never beat it. And being the sole member of my peer group that owned and played it, I always wondered if Jason got his frog back. 35 years later, I know now that he did. Thank you for this ❤
I still remember how to beat this game after all these years. I turn 53 this year !!! I bought this game when it came out in 1988. It was one of my favorites.
Mario: Went on an adventure to rescue a princess
Jason: Went on an adventure to rescue a frog.
Jason is such a Chad.
What if the frog was just Mario before he got that first kiss from his princess?
to be honest if it weren't for his pet frog the whole world could've been destroyed.
Also Jason: Came for a frog, ended up with a hot alien/robot wife.
Kane: Went on an adventure to rescue the freedom of his planet, got visited by Jason
I remember staying up late trying to beat this lol.
Always thought Blaster Master had some of the best music.
One of the best games on NES hands down
I had this game as a child it was one of my first game purchases I enjoyed playing it but never got very far so thanks for this video great memories
One of the games that I regret not playing back in the day when I had the NES.
I feel that way about Journey To Silius. It was on the bottom shelf at my local Blockbuster video. I picked up the box and looked at it a few times but never rented it. That would've been a nice surprise back then.
1988 what a great time to be alive. I didn't have an NES until around 1990, but had friends that did and this was one of the games that we rented a few times and never beat. I actually didn't beat this game until a few years ago when it came onto the NSO. I have a physical copy though because I have always loved it so much.
Very thanks! I actually still own this cart, and have always found the game interesting, but never had to patience to really play it.
I remember this game being so hard as a kid. So thank you for showing me that it is possible to beat.
I don't know exactly why but I always loved the music in the little intro to the game where Jason loses his pet frog. All the music in this game is pretty good though.
One of the best NES game ever IMHO. So challenging and addictive.
Great game. In my top 3 for nes. Still own the cartridge I got for the holidays that year as a kid. Wasn't able to beat it until I was much older. The last few levels and the level 6 boss was really difficult.
This takes me back! I remember getting this and Dragon Warrior for Christmas in 1988. Played this for three weeks straight before becoming obsessed with Dragon Warrior.
Sunsoft games were a part of my childhood
I still find it highly amusing that the Zero trilogy combines the stories of not only both this AND the Japanese versions.... but also the Worlds of Power novel, to boot. Like wow, that's some dedication to the lore there, if I do say so myself.
I got here the moment after your Fester`s quest video 💪 Mannn the nostalgia is STRONG in the Sunsoft univers , for me that is 🤘🤘 you have a new subscriber ✌
Opening Cutscene:
Jason: Who’s the best frog in the world?! It’s you! It really is!
Frog: Ribbit! Thanks, Jason!
Jason: Wanna play hide-and-seek with me?
Frog: Sure!
Jason: Okay! Hop and hide!
Frog: I have a good hiding place.
Jason: Wait! What are you doing?! Don’t go near that radioactive chemical plant!
Frog: Whoa! What’s happening to me?! I feel so big and powerful! Ooh! A hole! I’m going go in there! I bet there might be some delicious bugs!
Jason: Hey! Come back here! It’s dangerous out there! Come out of that hole! You’re a frog, not a gopher! I guess I have to follow my frog! I don’t want him to get hurt. Hey look, it’s my tank Sophia III! It’s time to take her for a spin and rescue my pet frog! I’M COMING, FROGGY!
I was trying to find this game for over 20 years, good fun to see it till the end I was only 9 and never beat the game
He got his Frog back ❤
That main theme is glorious.
Imo one of the hardest playable Nintendo games that was made I still play it
Never could make it past the crab monster after the first frog boss. That underwater stage is brutal.
You have to have the 'Gun' at all 8 bars, and cannot lose even 1 bar. Otherwise the Crab is simply not beatable.
@@AllenStewart-mc8zk It's beatable even with zero gun, but it takes a horribly long time and pretty much requires holding A while you spam B. (Holding A keeps you facing the same direction when you move.)
It had a glitch where if you paused it while hitting it with your grenade it would cheat and spam him with fire until dead. In fact, this little cheat worked for every other boss....2, 4, 6, and 8..
@@AllenStewart-mc8zk Even my mother was able to beat the crab without gun upgrades back then.
You basically hit the nail on the head on how I feel about Blaster Master. It's unique and I respect the hell out of it, but I don't find it super fun to play
I agree as well! I tried Metafight too, and while it starts on a high note, the later sections have questionable design choices, and Wall 2 disrupts the pace a lot due to the ledges problem. It's still a gorgeous game to look at with great tunes (not all of them though, some compositions sound uninspired) and a great premise with it's gameplay.
Recently started BMZ1 and it's been a joy up to where I stopped, I love how they updated the core design of the original game, and I'm curious with the sequels too.
I distinctly remember going to a friends house and he had rented two games. Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Blaster Master. Blaster Master felt like a masterpiece after spending hours failing to decipher what Roger Rabbit even was. I like to remember it that way and never play it again.
I have a lot of fun with this until right around the end as Kenji said. The room full of spikes in Area 8 is never fun.
It's also a bit disappointing that there's really no reason to go into any of the overhead areas once you know which ones lead to bosses of the Areas. I'm glad the Zero trilogy rectified this.
I think I prefer the first Blaster Master Zero over this aside from the difficulty being way too low (and a bit too high on Ultimate mode). It's extremely fun to play though.
1:43:47:The Most Evil Villain Final Wave : Solar Knight
Interesting game for the time. The story doesn't make a lick of sense, but do like the ending scene with him just chilling with his frog on his tank.
YES MY GUY!!! YOU FINALLY MADE THIS VIDEO!! Thank you so much dude I’ve been waiting for you to do this game sense I found your channel
Just finished watching this, thanks again dude. My Buddy and I could never beat the game and always had to get his dad to beat it for us
Np man, I remember you talking about this one.
One of the goat games of my time I never beat As a child
Never heard of this game till today so no nostalgia for me but I can't get over how great impressive these pixel graphics are for an NES game.
This is the only story to a game that has ever been worth paying attention to
When I was a kid, I used to get scared when that intro used to start..
I was just about to comment this exact same thing
I always thought the broken pillars in Area 5 was a nice touch, so majestic and mysterious at the same time.
One of the best old school games.
Blaster Master was the first video game to ask the question, "Froggy, where are you?".
This dude could SWIM!? Yeah as a five year old I never made it that far. Yet the music pops into my head every so often for the last thirty years.
Thanks for the walk through
Where it all began before.
I was 4 years old in 1988.
This is my favorite hidden gem. Its not UNKNOWN but not a top tier favorite. Nor is it a top tier game but its close. Controls are spot on great music... if it was a little less "where the heck do you go and what do you do?" It would be in my top 5. As it is top 10.
As a child, I could not master it (((
Excellent walkthrough 🔥
Thanks!
For sure! This game was really tough as a 7 or 8 year old! (Tough as an adult too!) I remember being able to make it to area 5 and never beating that stage. ...and the music and ambience from area 4 used to put me in a "dark" headspace as a kid! That music was super depressing to me for some reason! lol
Happy anniversary to a great platform, run & gun game.🎉
There is a cheat: When you fire your weapon at an end boss press pause for 5 to 10 minutes to finish the boss off.
A real TV puncher/control biter for me. Under 10 yrs old when I played this.
Cmon! Dont act like u didnt pitch a fit every now and then and do something crazy playing these games as a kid. LOL
I broke my first NES controller playing Kung Fu 😂😂
Fred the Frog did everyone on earth a favor by having Jason chased him to the center of the earth.ended up saving the planet.
You know, there's a cool trick that can be used on four of the bosses where you launch a grenade, then pause at the right time, wait a few seconds, and unpause to defeat those bosses easily.
Don't think I ever beat this game. Got pretty far in it, but the difficulty eventually got the best of me. 😢
One of my favorite things about this game is when you upgrade your main gun and it fires like this. 25:25
Destroys everything in the area. Sadly if you get hit you lose it slightly.
I know the game was to save his frog ... but finding a SOPHIA would be more than a dream come true.
I never even got past the first level. Crazy how long this game is.
>Enjoying frog
>Frog then escapes from terrarium and suddenly touches radiation and becomes a giant
>Frog then enters a giant hole
>Follow it and suddenly find a strange vehicle that's been hidden underneath the farm the whole time
>Becomes Blaster Master
>Refuses to elaborate
>Blasts
Very thanks for the video
Lmao np
This game was SO hard when I was a little kid.
Sunsoft was grossly underrated as a game developer. They had great titles with awesome graphics and soundtracks ( Batman, Gremlins, etc..) Blaster Master is no exception to this
Not in their time. Today the Playstation generation may never heard of them, but any NES owner not only knew them well, but held them in high regard, like Konami or Capcom.
In the 16 bit era they started to decline to be almost forgotten by the time of the Playstaion/Saturn/N64 generation, because they were not a hit machine anymore.
If only the US version had unlimited continues like Japan, and the game in general allowed you to keep your power ups even after getting hit, as well as proper implementation of the Metroidvania concept..... I'd actually like this game. Not just the music, which is the ONLY thing I like about this game at all.
You wanna see this s*** done right, NOT JUST THE MUSIC? Play the Blaster Master Zero series.
@@magoid I agree. After this and Batman, I trusted the Sunsoft name. Like with Nintendo, Capcom, and Konami, I could pick up one of their games not knowing anything about it and be confident that I wasn't wasting $40, and they never betrayed that confidence. On the NES, at least. They (and the development houses they closely worked with in this era) developed so few of the SNES games that Sunsoft published, and though most of them were at least somewhat okay, they were rarely on par with their 8-bit carts.
@@NintendoComplete True, guess there's a reason almost nobody remembers the Genesis sequel to the Western release; even though it plays somewhat better, I'd say it's also a more milk-toast experience (wasn't made by Sunsoft directly either IIRC). In general, the last games from Sunsoft I "really" enjoyed, based on the release dates, were Gimmick! and Trip World. They had some interesting adventure games in Japan early on too, like Ripple Island... but yeah, from mid-90s onwards (or even a bit earlier) they had stopped making really great games. Oh well.
at 12:24 I always wondered how you killed these wall faces. Answer: you have to use the weapon you get after killing the first boss. I never knew. Tells you how far I made it playing? LOL
Masterpiece of a game.
Loved this game!!!
My brother and I would play this after school when we were like 7 lol we never made it far but we loved it
Great game and incredible music
Oh God this takes me back. I laugh a lot to find out the pause glitch to kill the
Frog boss still works! Hahaha XD
My husband loves this game and has said that that glitch works on bosses 2, 4, 6, and 7.
"For the original Blaster Master I came up with the title, designed the opening, handled the map design and layout, did the boss design... aside from the game's character design I was pretty much involved in all areas of the game's production.
We were trying to make the best action game to date, with all that entails. With Sophia (the game vehicle), we wanted to bring to life a sense of action that incorporated all 360 degrees of the environment in a way that players hadn't really experienced up to that point. Along with that, we wanted large, expansive maps so that we could support that vision.
Graphically we tried to push the limits of what the NES was capable of, and one way we tried to express that was with the game's bosses. We wanted to really emphasise a sense of scale, bring out the difference between Jason, the small character that the player was controlling, and these massive boss characters that players wouldn't expect to appear on the hardware at that time - having these giant, imposing bosses that would feel overwhelming on the screen, and then evoking in the player that great feeling of success from overcoming what felt like an insurmountable battle."
-- Yoshiaki Iwata (game designer and programmer, Sunsoft)
It sounds like Quester's Fest! :)
I use to have nightmares about this game. I really mean nightmares of me falling into hole and having to fight ,run to survive. I was about 4 yrs old 😂
Love it ❤️ me 11 yrs old in 1988.
Imagine how much more popular this game would have been if it had been designed as a battery backup game and not....this. This was way too hard. Unless you owned it and dedicated a few weeks to it.
This game is a classic. Especially, with that music in the first level. Not my favorite Sunsoft game, but I like this one a lot. I prefer the Japanese version with its unlimited continues.
That's the main reason I could never finish this game. Only three continues. I never knew the Japanese version has unlimited continues.
Dev Manager: Ok guys the game is done. We just need a plot or a reason for the main character why he's doing this.
Devs: How bout his frog jumped into a nuclear radiator thingy and he found a mobile underground so... he then starts the adventure?
Such an odd story... lol BUT seriously an amazing game and a highly treasured relic from my childhood.
edit: also, the BGM from area 4 is so eerie and has such a "depressing" feel to it, imho... it used to literally cause me to have nightmares as a kid. Amazing... especially for an 8 bit track!!
It's crazy they basically took the Jason aspect of this game and created Fester's quest
Man I love watching this. I still have it and an nes advantage. If I can revive my old nes, it's on!!!
I've only beat it twice. Both times with the game genie infinite lives code. I still stand by that decision. It's a long way to area 8, and having to end the game there really sucks.
JP ver had infinite continues, so nobody should really even call it cheating
Dude there is no shot you got the best RNG at 1:42:45 standing there shooting your wave beam and not taking a single hit is wildly lucky like max even!
Loved this game!!!!!!!
Where did he get the racing suit and helmet from?
I find it interesting how the series has gotten popular again when they released it on PC
Does anyone know what are those characters on Jason's suit (it looks like it says HCI?) Does it have any meaning?
How did you immediately go back to full health at 1:36:30?
Another sunsoft classic
My god! I used to have a pet frog as a kid, but I was never THAT attached to it. I would have just got another one instead of venturing into a subterranean world full of mutants in an experimental tank.
I figured out the pause when shooting grenades at bosses thing when my mom was yelling at me about something and I had to pause the game LOL
Do you know about the "grenade pause" glitch for some bosses?
I do. I thought it would be cheap to use it for the recording, though.
A hack rom with a map will be perfect, this game is a metroid hidden gem.
I found a company that made enamel pins for Blaster Master, and got a set that came in a custom mini-lunchbox. Couldn’t pass it up.
you like the soundtrack at least right? sunsoft always had the best music for their games