Blaster Master (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- A playthrough of Sunsoft's 1988 action-platformer for the NES, Blaster Master.
Blaster Master is one of the more fondly remembered games on the NES, and its popularity only seems to grow with each passing year. I certainly loved it as a kid.
The game casts you as Jason, a boy whose pet frog (Fred) manages to escape into the back yard where he leaps into a container of radioactive waste. Then, just as Fred mutates into a mutant mega frog, a gaping hole opens up in the ground and swallows him. Jason, good friend that he is, chases his pet into the hole and lands next to a giant armored tank named Sophia. Apparently Sophia was designed to combat the hordes of evil radioactive monsters that live beneath the Earth's surface, and if Jason ever hopes to see his pal and his home once more, he'll have to take up command of Sophia and destroy this evil.
What were they smoking when they came up with this?!
Jason's adventure is an early example of the genre now popularly known as Metroidvania, with the game being split across eight areas packed with nooks and crannies to explore, and the bosses hold items and abilities that you'll need to clear the way to the next area.
The exploration bits are presented as semi-open ended 2D platformer stages that link together like in Castlevania II: Simon's Quest or The Battle of Olympus, and in these areas you will usually be driving Sophia around. She can take some solid hits, lob missiles, shoot lightning, and jump straight up in the air, all just as you'd expect of any mobile heavy weapons platform worth its salt. Jason can also hop out to navigate tight passages on foot, though since he's a much squishier target, a couple direct hits or a nasty fall is all it takes to do him in.
These stages are dotted with doors that only Jason can fit through, and these doors all lead to areas that play in the style of a top-down run-and-gun (like The Guardian Legend or Mission: Impossible). Most of the areas provide opportunities for powering up your weapon, but the most important door in each area is the one that leads to the boss battle. Once you've beaten the boss and claimed your prize, you need to figure out how to use the item to get to the next main area.
The general structure feels similar to games like Rygar, but Blaster Master has a unique feel and flair that's all its own. The goofy premise, the non-linear level design, and the amazing graphics all lend it a lot of personality, and in many ways, it feels much more polished than just about anything else that was on the Nintendo when it first came out. For 1988, this was super impressive - there are moments when it could pass as a 16-bit game - and it set the tone for pretty much every Sunsoft NES game that followed.
I know that many people will disagree with me here, but for as much as I adored it back in the late 80s, and for as much as I still respect its accomplishments, I can't say that I find it much fun to play nowadays. The controls are lousy - you constantly slide and skid about, strafing prevents you from using grenades, and the wall-grip power-ups interfere with jumping, making the last few stages a platforming nightmare - and the control problems compound the thoroughly obnoxious level of difficulty. Enemies fly into you constantly with little warning, each hit you absorb in the top-down stages weakens your gun, the regular bouts of slowdown mess with your timing, there are limited continues, and there's no password system. It's brutal in a way that I was able to appreciate when I was eight years old, but it's something that I have little patience for as an adult.
I don't think it's a bad game - far from it, in fact - but it is a game that I seem to have completely lost my taste for. The controls and mechanics lack the balance and the polish of Sunsoft's later NES games (like Batman, Gremlins 2, Super Spy Hunter, Fester's Quest, and Mr. Gimmick!), and the beautiful graphics and sweet soundtrack just aren't enough to save it for me.
Oh well. I know a lot of you guys absolutely love the game going by the number of requests I've gotten for a video over the years, so after months of practicing and drawing maps, here it finally is!
Very thanks for watching!
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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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
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
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.
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
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!
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!_*
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! 😂😎
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.
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?@@EndofAmerica2030
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.
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
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 ❤
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.
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
I remember staying up late trying to beat this lol.
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.❤
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
@@DarkdotMan 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
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.
Sunsoft games were a part of my childhood
One of the best games on NES hands down
I remember this game being so hard as a kid. So thank you for showing me that it is possible to beat.
One of the best NES game ever IMHO. So challenging and addictive.
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
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 👍🏾
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.
Imo one of the hardest playable Nintendo games that was made I still play it
That main theme is glorious.
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.
One of the goat games of my time I never beat As a child
One of the best old school games.
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 ✌
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
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
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.
Where it all began before.
I always thought the broken pillars in Area 5 was a nice touch, so majestic and mysterious at the same time.
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.
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.
Always thought Blaster Master had some of the best music.
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.
Blaster Master was the first video game to ask the question, "Froggy, where are you?".
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!
This is the only story to a game that has ever been worth paying attention to
I know the game was to save his frog ... but finding a SOPHIA would be more than a dream come true.
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.
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
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.
Happy anniversary to a great platform, run & gun game.🎉
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.
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
This game was SO hard when I was a little kid.
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.
Love it ❤️ me 11 yrs old in 1988.
"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 was 4 years old in 1988.
Masterpiece of a game.
He got his Frog back ❤
Very thanks for the video
Lmao np
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
Don't think I ever beat this game. Got pretty far in it, but the difficulty eventually got the best of me. 😢
As a 8 y.o child.. it is hard to find the next hidden area and find the boss... but this game is memorable... and i still play it in android
What do you think of the original Metafight? It has unlimited continues and (supposedly) better performance despite being the same game.
By the way, planning on recording the BMZ trilogy? If not, did you play it? I'd like to read your opinions :)
I've only played a few minutes of the Japanese version so I can't really say much either way, but those both sound like big improvements. I hadn't considered the Zero series (I've only played a bit of the first one) but who knows? Maybe at some point. I'd like to tackle the other older BM games first, though.
@@NintendoComplete Cool! I started BMZ1 and I'm currently having fun, maybe I'll tackle the other classic titles besides Metafight later on
@@chrishd659 The GBC game was pretty good from what I remember playing it 20 years ago. I dunno if I'd feel the same way about it now, though, like this one.
I’ve played through BMZ 1&2, and they’re both really good. The music isn’t as good, I don’t think, but it has its own style and it works.
They fix a lot of the issues you raise about the design. About the only thing that’s the same is the loss of gun power on a hit, but they fix that with a collectible power up and by providing tons of gun power ups.
They’re definitely worth a play. I’ve got BMZ 3 in my backlog, and I can’t wait to play it.
Great game and incredible music
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 😂
Blaster Master... one of those games that we have fond memories about it, but it should be best left coated with nostalgia sugar than touched anymore...
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!!
Thanks for the walk through
My brother and I would play this after school when we were like 7 lol we never made it far but we loved it
Blaster Master is a classic indeed, and a strong NES cult classic for good reason, but really it is the concept that has outlived the actual execution. Like most NES games, it is plagued by a variety of clunky issues that make it a rough play by today's standards. I'd be remiss to not address the elephant-sized frog in the room and not mention the best successor to this game by far, Blaster Master Zero, Inti Creates' trilogy of modern, retro-style reimaginings of this game, and they are fantastic. The first two at least. They play very well, and add some interesting features to revitalize this iconic formula. Please give them a try if you have not, you probably won't be disappointed!
A hack rom with a map will be perfect, this game is a metroid hidden gem.
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 find it interesting how the series has gotten popular again when they released it on PC
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 😂😂
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.
I've never disagreed harder with one of your reviews. Blaster Master is my favorite game on the NES.
The control in this game is great, in fact I'd go as far as to say it's some of the best on the NES, next to Mario and Mega Man. Very responsive, very intuitive. Jumping with Sophia feels great, particularly with the momentum you can get, and how many top-down shooters on the NES let you strafe? Nothing about the control feels clunky or stiff like other NES games do. Sure, the wall-climbing thing is a little awkward at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's fine.
Also, I will never understand this game's reputation as one of the hardest on the NES, and I chalk that up to people not knowing how to play it. Most players seem to think the goal of each level is finding the boss. That's only half true. The other rooms are there for a reason: so you can find gun upgrades to prepare yourself. It's easy to power up your gun to max, and once you do, it shreds through everything. And even if you have trouble finding your way around, the manual has maps for you to work with. The bosses can be a pain sometimes, if you don't know what you're doing, but that's all I can think of in terms of real difficulty. Seriously, the game hands out health and ammo pickups like candy, and you don't take as much damage from enemies as you would in many other games.
Blaster Master is honestly pretty easy for an NES action game. I'd compare its difficulty to Mega Man 3, maybe. I admit, limited continues are a little cheap considering the game's length, but the Japanese version had unlimited continues, so if that's your beef, there's your solution.
SOPHIA III aka METAL ATTACKER does skid and slide a bit, but honestly thats part of the flavor of controlling her, the same way Megaman moves with a steel precision, sharp weight, and instant motion and Mario needs a run up and needs a moment to lose momentum, SOPHIA is a jumping tank with wheels, and accounting for that is part of her game feel
Loved this game!!!!!!!
you like the soundtrack at least right? sunsoft always had the best music for their games
One more example of a franchise that was revived a few years back, and is doing pretty well - definitely better than the Genesis sequel or the PSX game. As for the original - I'd say it's pretty standard design for the 80s; they could've made it just a bit easier/improve the controls/add passwords at least, but I do enjoy the music/gameplay still every now and then, despite the shortcomings. I recall the plot in the Japanese version is quite different, isn't it?
In the Japanese version, the plot is only outlined in the manual.
In that version, the game takes place on a planet named "Sophia III" and the tank is known as the "Metal Attacker." The protagonist's name is also Kane Gardner.
The JP game, known as METAFIGHT has a very bogstandard plot, Kane Gardner pilots the prototype heavy weapons platform METAL ATTACKER, to defend the Planet Sophia The 3rd from the Invem Dark Star Army, aka "Military dude fights aliens in super tank", as bizarro as "kid chases frog into mutant filled underworld, uses tank he randomly found to continue chasing frog" is, its rather distinct
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
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?
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
Another sunsoft classic
I somewhat disagree with you, I love Blaster Master and it's one of those games that I usually play through at least once a year (though it's usually way more than that!). I've played it so many times that I can usually whip through it in less than an hour...
It's funny that he has a container of radioactive waste sitting outside his house.
Hi, what game would you recommend to me, Guardian Legend or Blaster Master? Both are great, but if i only can choose one...
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.
Such a 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.
The Japanese version of this game has a far more normal plot- there's a space station that is a university for gifted people. A boy is the best pilot, a girl is the best engineer, planet gets invaded by aliens and is overrun, space station has the few survivors, girl builds a tank, boy and girl ride off together to free their world.
The US version is incoherent but at least memorable.
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.
At least you beat the level 6 and 7 boss without the grenade glitch. Not many can say that.
Goddangit! I remember this game. This game was so fucking hard.
Nes game simple game. Gymnastic mind game. Nostalgia
Wow... Such a old memories (I'm stuck at Area 3 dammit!)
There’s a Nintendo 3Ds version.
Include a secuel in PS1 called Blaster Master: Blasting Again.
My pet toad evolved into a Main Battle Tank! What do!?
Fester's quest
Fester's Quest feels like it was meant to be the sequel to this one!
Goddammit, I was never able to beat that frog boss and it was actually that easy!
this game is so obviously made by the same team that made Fester's Quest.
The sounds, and what to think of the Boss-Experience and so many other little things remind me of it. You only know when you know! :P