Man, this really was one of the best NES games ever. I'd easily put it right up there with The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and Super Mario Bros. 3. It's actually my personal favorite NES game. Side note: On most of the stages on this game, I'd say it's hard to figure out where to go at first, but after you've done it, I'd say it's easy to remember.
Finally the love this game deserves. It's so beautiful especially for a 1988 title! And ahead of its time too, there are many elements to it that I still see today in Modern Metroidvania style games. The backtracking to previous levels to get to newer parts of them was done so well here, because it really feels like the player character and the S.O.P.H.I.A tank have actually improved! By the end when you have awesome powers like sticking to the walls, you can see all kinds of secrets, the game feels so expansive, it must have been amazing for the time. I wish I was alive back then to see what it was like. But even playing it nowadays as a milennial with no nostalgia for it, it remains my favorite NES game of all time. I think the only title that comes close to it for me would be Compile's The Guardian Legend. Another amazing multi genre game
@@auralunaprettycure I played it as a kid back in ‘89. I was obsessed with this game, I played and played until I beat it. And of course there were no saves. Sitting down to play Blaster Master was a time commitment!
This game almost broke me as a kid. I've played it so much, there are places where my muscle memory was screaming at me. Btw, in the zone 3 area with Jason you can use the grenades to clear the red robot's faster if you can predict when they enter the screen. Great job! Oh, and that cheese on the last boss was great. I never knew you could hide in the corner like that.
Note that the guy is playing the Famicom/Japanese version of the game. I think I tried this once in the NA version, and I got nailed because I remember the thing whipping diagonally and smacking me.
This was my all time favorite game! I got the to last boss... and didn't make it. First time I ever rage quit.... I was 10. I also feel Arcus is the "Bob Ross'' of speedruns with his calm tones.
I just remember playing this with my older brother as a kid and FINALLY finding the place that you can hover up at the beginning! We never beat it, but just that moment was so magical and fantastic that I'll always remember it.
I loved this game so much as a kid. It came out when I was half way through high school. I am almost 50 now and while I no longer have my NES, I saved the cartridges of my two most favorite games ever- Blaster Master and The Legend of Zelda. Great video and great job! Thanks for the memories!
"I wonder how contentious the Blaster Master categories are." (Sees Arcus runs it) "I wonder what other games I could learn..." I'm JK though its great to see a loving legend on one of my favorite games.
I loved this game so much as a kid it was right up there with metroid for me. I was 8 or 9 and my family was moving, when we got to the new place everyone started unpacking and my parents just set up a tv and plugged in my NES and i played this all day while they worked. Happy to sub!
FOR THE LOVE OV FROG!!! oh the memories. every one else had the zeldas metroid and the contras. i had this rygar and final fantasy. i lived the better life. road less traveled and all. as a kid never figured out how to do anything but endless hours ov shooting things was always a blas
As a kid this game and Clash at Demonhead I was obsessed with because I thought they were just the coolest but I was never able to beat them until I revisited them as a young adult.
@DaChicken76 You didn't really need the powerups in Metroid to advance (you need the Morph Ball and bombs, Ice Beam, and some missile upgrades) as is typical in the Metroidvania scheme of things. Metroid and Zelda II were more like platformer versions of the original LoZ than Metroidvania. Blaster Master required all of the upgrades to actually advance rather than just make the game easier (similar to LoZ).
Me: I loved this game as a kid! Hey, I think I never made it past this stage. I wonder what is next?! *ice physics appears* Me: Ice. In a NES game. what an amazing surprise.
The lag is so worth it though, with the awesome visuals and fast-paced gameplay that few NES games could ever come close to matching. I don't mind a little lag here and there.
everytime stage 3 music would begin my friends would always pretend to be newscasters 'The channel 4 news..with weather..sports ... all from the action newsdesk"
All time favorite from my childhood. I had a number of records in my day. Very recently finally found the final hoss on this one and beat it. Questions, #1 is the zone 5 glitch active on nes? #2 why do you pause at every room change?.
I used to run this game, but I didn't own original hardware, so instead I ran it on emulation. I couldn't get sub 36 to save my life, it's just so hard on emu. I'd love to come back to this game one day and see if I got what it takes, it's a fun run and was a powerhouse game in my childhood.
Trying to figure out why this game wasn’t more popular like Mario. The gameplay value amazing even tho I never made it past the swimming level back then.
This game has a reputation for being very difficult, but to be honest when you think about it... there's only like... 3-4 difficult segments in the game: 1). Level 3 boss, because you can't cheese it. Even with full GUN, it's possible to screw up one too many times and end up losing. 2). Arriving at the Level 5 boss with full GUN and not 7. There's some of THE most cheap and aggravating BS like enemies popping out of thin air to hit you, etc, assuming you're going to _not_ glitch the fight like Arcus does. 3). Landing a Grenade + Pause on the Level 7 boss. 4). Killing the final boss. The big one is #2 that ends up being what ended a lot of my playthroughs back when I once played on original hardware. A screwup means a lot of backtracking to find somewhere you can build back up to 8 GUN to try the boss again. Thankfully, emulators have save state and I'm not a speedrunner. I'd say that even Level 8 isn't that hard, though I suppose there's like 2 jumps in there that if you mess up, you're going to die full-stop but with enough care and caution, you can make it. And if you go through it the normal way, one of the big rooms can be 90% skipped by intentionally falling through some spikes at the very beginning of the room.
Yeah. Level 5 boss is about as far as most people see in this game. I’ve never beaten it without level 8 gun as far as I can remember.... That’s probably the hardest fight in the game.
In the beginning of the game and in future spots, fire the weapon before those flying enemies appear so they get killed as soon as they appear to prevent too many enemies on the screen, which causes slowdown. Will save you some time..
What??? When you do that "pause" thru the doors in the Pal Blaster Master, You always get stuck and have to reset the game! Why do this not apply to the Famicom version??
Was it the bugging through walls or did that section prior to the frog have the wrong palette? I seem to remember that being a blue waterish area not all fiery.
I remember borrowing this game from a kid whose parents actually owned and played the game, but had never beaten it. After I beat it, they asked me to come over and beat it again so they could see the ending. This was long before we knew of the grenade trick (or any of the crazy skips). To date, I'm the only person I know of that has beaten the crab boss in Area 5 straight up with no guns and no turbo fire. Did it on a true NES before we were all filming our exploits. Seeing that battle get cheaped-out like that was worthy of a dislike.
@@SubaruWRXspdManual Why not just go straight for a credits cheat? Speed run rules need to be reorganized so if you don't play it right, it's considered a different type of run. Still crap because you never actually "beat" the boss. Marvel vs Capcom would have given you the block of cheese for that "win".
29:49is what copliot says is the world record for this game however there is another youtube vid; a david tki claiming a 25:56. wonder if it's legit and copilot is misinformed, i'll have to watch the vid
The soundtrack is so nostalgic for me. Was born in 83. This brings me back to when I was a kid
Whenever I need to calm down, I come to watch Arcus videos. Damn this guy is chill AF.
And take a shit?
And take a shit?
Man, this really was one of the best NES games ever. I'd easily put it right up there with The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and Super Mario Bros. 3. It's actually my personal favorite NES game.
Side note: On most of the stages on this game, I'd say it's hard to figure out where to go at first, but after you've done it, I'd say it's easy to remember.
Finally the love this game deserves. It's so beautiful especially for a 1988 title! And ahead of its time too, there are many elements to it that I still see today in Modern Metroidvania style games. The backtracking to previous levels to get to newer parts of them was done so well here, because it really feels like the player character and the S.O.P.H.I.A tank have actually improved! By the end when you have awesome powers like sticking to the walls, you can see all kinds of secrets, the game feels so expansive, it must have been amazing for the time.
I wish I was alive back then to see what it was like. But even playing it nowadays as a milennial with no nostalgia for it, it remains my favorite NES game of all time. I think the only title that comes close to it for me would be Compile's The Guardian Legend. Another amazing multi genre game
@@auralunaprettycure I played it as a kid back in ‘89. I was obsessed with this game, I played and played until I beat it. And of course there were no saves. Sitting down to play Blaster Master was a time commitment!
This game almost broke me as a kid. I've played it so much, there are places where my muscle memory was screaming at me. Btw, in the zone 3 area with Jason you can use the grenades to clear the red robot's faster if you can predict when they enter the screen. Great job!
Oh, and that cheese on the last boss was great. I never knew you could hide in the corner like that.
Note that the guy is playing the Famicom/Japanese version of the game. I think I tried this once in the NA version, and I got nailed because I remember the thing whipping diagonally and smacking me.
This was my all time favorite game! I got the to last boss... and didn't make it. First time I ever rage quit.... I was 10.
I also feel Arcus is the "Bob Ross'' of speedruns with his calm tones.
One of the greatest games I've ever played man. It took me over six months of non-stop play to finally beat this game as a kid!
Has anyone else on here read the book based on this game? I actually loved it! I think I was playing the game around that time too.
Yep!! The worlds of power book right? Brings back such memories.
I cried at the end. 😂
I just remember playing this with my older brother as a kid and FINALLY finding the place that you can hover up at the beginning! We never beat it, but just that moment was so magical and fantastic that I'll always remember it.
I loved this game so much as a kid. It came out when I was half way through high school. I am almost 50 now and while I no longer have my NES, I saved the cartridges of my two most favorite games ever- Blaster Master and The Legend of Zelda. Great video and great job! Thanks for the memories!
This is still the best soundtrack of a game that has ever been made IMO. Every stage is different and gets you pumped ready to throw down!
"I wonder how contentious the Blaster Master categories are."
(Sees Arcus runs it)
"I wonder what other games I could learn..."
I'm JK though its great to see a loving legend on one of my favorite games.
I loved this game so much as a kid it was right up there with metroid for me. I was 8 or 9 and my family was moving, when we got to the new place everyone started unpacking and my parents just set up a tv and plugged in my NES and i played this all day while they worked. Happy to sub!
I've been watching your videos. Finally, I subscribed!
Annnnnnnnnd clunk that was a good clunk. You have me saying that irl plus hey eat more so your mustache has time to not soft reset
Thanks for another upload, lol I see your twitch feed recommends Bob Ross, that's pretty fitting, you have a calm Bob Ross vibe in your videos.
FOR THE LOVE OV FROG!!!
oh the memories. every one else had the zeldas metroid and the contras. i had this rygar and final fantasy.
i lived the better life. road less traveled and all.
as a kid never figured out how to do anything but endless hours ov shooting things was always a blas
Thank you for showing somethings I never knew about one of my favorite games of all time!! Liked & subbed!!👍
For boss 5, I did not know that you could leave the room as the boss appeared and corner it’s hit box like that. Insane!
I never could figure this game out. I think i got to the second or 3rd boss. Did the bomb+pause kills.
What a great exploit for back in the day.
Finally discovered that tune I heard on AVGN! Thanks man!
As a kid this game and Clash at Demonhead I was obsessed with because I thought they were just the coolest but I was never able to beat them until I revisited them as a young adult.
Insane play. Played it when I was a kid. Best game with best music at the time!
The birth of Metroidvania.
@DaChicken76 You didn't really need the powerups in Metroid to advance (you need the Morph Ball and bombs, Ice Beam, and some missile upgrades) as is typical in the Metroidvania scheme of things. Metroid and Zelda II were more like platformer versions of the original LoZ than Metroidvania. Blaster Master required all of the upgrades to actually advance rather than just make the game easier (similar to LoZ).
WRONG.
The birth of Metroidvania was 1997 when a Castlevania game was released that was like Metroid.
@@KaneRobot Simon's Quest was technically the first Metroidvania
What @@rushifellpainting4631 said.
Me: I loved this game as a kid! Hey, I think I never made it past this stage. I wonder what is next?!
*ice physics appears*
Me: Ice. In a NES game. what an amazing surprise.
Good work man! Blaster Master is the best !
"This game sometimes has lag." -Arcus "Massive Understatement" McSpeedrunner
The lag is so worth it though, with the awesome visuals and fast-paced gameplay that few NES games could ever come close to matching. I don't mind a little lag here and there.
Superbes vidéos ,j'ai été impressionné sur le ring de soltice ,gg acus
Le run
See, I'd speedrun this game, but Kirkland makes awesomeness that keeps the controller out of my hands.
everytime stage 3 music would begin my friends would always pretend to be newscasters 'The channel 4 news..with weather..sports ... all from the action newsdesk"
Well, I finished this game (no cheats) when I was in highschool.. 😎 this has best nes music. 👍
Agreed 100% I will say Kid Icarus has an amazing soundtrack too!! My fave is stage 2
Definitely one of the Top 20 NES games .... perhaps even top 10
I once had a white Mazda Axela I named SOPHIA III. Blaster Master is awesome as hell.
Best game ever made for nes/famicom. But difficult.
It’s weird seeing a gamer in a cowboy hat.
This was a game I played a lot of as a kid but never made it very far..
All time favorite from my childhood. I had a number of records in my day. Very recently finally found the final hoss on this one and beat it. Questions, #1 is the zone 5 glitch active on nes? #2 why do you pause at every room change?.
I do know when you hit pause, the transition between screens is faster
@@stevedunne9186 and what about the zone 5 glitch you used.
Dunno, it's not me playing
I used to run this game, but I didn't own original hardware, so instead I ran it on emulation. I couldn't get sub 36 to save my life, it's just so hard on emu.
I'd love to come back to this game one day and see if I got what it takes, it's a fun run and was a powerhouse game in my childhood.
Famicom has save states?? That sure would have been useful playing this on NES as a kid! We still loved it though, top 5 games and #1 soundtrack!
Trying to figure out why this game wasn’t more popular like Mario. The gameplay value amazing even tho I never made it past the swimming level back then.
I always look forward to the clunk
This game has a reputation for being very difficult, but to be honest when you think about it... there's only like... 3-4 difficult segments in the game:
1). Level 3 boss, because you can't cheese it. Even with full GUN, it's possible to screw up one too many times and end up losing.
2). Arriving at the Level 5 boss with full GUN and not 7. There's some of THE most cheap and aggravating BS like enemies popping out of thin air to hit you, etc, assuming you're going to _not_ glitch the fight like Arcus does.
3). Landing a Grenade + Pause on the Level 7 boss.
4). Killing the final boss.
The big one is #2 that ends up being what ended a lot of my playthroughs back when I once played on original hardware. A screwup means a lot of backtracking to find somewhere you can build back up to 8 GUN to try the boss again. Thankfully, emulators have save state and I'm not a speedrunner.
I'd say that even Level 8 isn't that hard, though I suppose there's like 2 jumps in there that if you mess up, you're going to die full-stop but with enough care and caution, you can make it. And if you go through it the normal way, one of the big rooms can be 90% skipped by intentionally falling through some spikes at the very beginning of the room.
Yeah. Level 5 boss is about as far as most people see in this game. I’ve never beaten it without level 8 gun as far as I can remember.... That’s probably the hardest fight in the game.
I couldn't decide whether to watch a let's play or parks and rec clips.
This works nicely. Thank's youtube recommendations.
I may look like a video gamer, but you oughta see how fast I can lasso a herd of cattle.
In the beginning of the game and in future spots, fire the weapon before those flying enemies appear so they get killed as soon as they appear to prevent too many enemies on the screen, which causes slowdown. Will save you some time..
I remember getting this game for my 9th birthday present right before our house burnt down
Sadness my dude
I play it when I'm was kid it's so difficult I don't know if can beat it now
I was kind of hoping to see a non glitch run. But obviously well done.
That’s my childhood right there
This literally might be the hardest title to play straight thru, without glitches on the nes.
Amazing run!!
That final boss has way too much freaking hp
Wow! Your pretty good, you must have advanced coordination like me! I’d like to see you do a Donald Land or Kyoro-Chan Land speedrun though! 😂
The NES Version: the underwater later has to start from the bottom.
Nice speed-run.
Very nice run, man! Was curious about all the screen pauses when you transitioned to a new room. Does it save frames to do that?
If I had to wager a guess it just skips the scrolling room transition animation and unpauses in the new room.
Wow..... Just speechless
how fast are his thumbs moving?!!!
I played a lot of this game as a kid. Never got far. I don't know if the game was hard or if it was just me being terrible at it.
The jellyfish are actually metroids
This was one of my very first games as a kid at 3 or 4 yr old or so. I never got past first lvl yet alone knew what the H was for lmao 🤣
Love this guy
It's such a shame they screwed with the Blaster Master Formula with the sequels. Why screw with perfection? Also, BMaster vs. Metroid?
i like the title "metafight" better. :)
I love that game....blaster master...
Nice run 👌
Holy shit your good
What??? When you do that "pause" thru the doors in the Pal Blaster Master, You always get stuck and have to reset the game! Why do this not apply to the Famicom version??
Did he really just beat Blaster Master in a half an hour? I managed to beat this game as a kid but it took forever.
Do you ever get the speed runs on the toilette?
Was it the bugging through walls or did that section prior to the frog have the wrong palette? I seem to remember that being a blue waterish area not all fiery.
That’s the second frog boss. The boss of stage 4 is a frog in a watery area. He skips world 4 glitching through the lock.
You can pause kill the bosses. On the NES one anyway.
Nevermind. lol
That is Nintendo Entertainment System, not Famicom
Those were some good clunks
Which Costco do you go to?
why the pause on every new section ?
Why does he pause between each screen
I never even beat this game as a kid lol
I used to be able to beat this without a continue....
I'm currently in Colorado, I wanna buy you a cowboy hat...
Awesome
Why the constant pausing every doorway?
I believe it's faster than waiting for the screen to scroll.
good clunk
What happened to lvl4?
He skipped it by glitching through the locks, clearing level 5, then dying/continuing to get his Metal Attacker there with him.
Ahh yes, the level 4 boss gives the all powerful.....key. that saves some serious time. However that level has my favorite music.
Well...
Maybe not favorite, but most nostalgic for sure.
He must be using a cheat cause how do you kill the boss in 1 shot with grenade
$10 for this game at a local flea market. Should I get it? Peeps of the TH-cam world?
Mash at mash
Hi Jo Jo!
Why the famicom version over NES? And what's the purpose of that pause thing in between the level screens?
Faster cut scenes in the Japanese. And the pausing between levels makes the scrolling between screens a lot faster.
Those warp glitches are famicom version only as I understand
I did it in 20 flat
Oh...you're a twitch streamer? I'll never catch your streams then. Don't have an account.
You should open one...
I remember borrowing this game from a kid whose parents actually owned and played the game, but had never beaten it. After I beat it, they asked me to come over and beat it again so they could see the ending. This was long before we knew of the grenade trick (or any of the crazy skips).
To date, I'm the only person I know of that has beaten the crab boss in Area 5 straight up with no guns and no turbo fire. Did it on a true NES before we were all filming our exploits. Seeing that battle get cheaped-out like that was worthy of a dislike.
The stuff you don't like is common practice in a speed run.
@@SubaruWRXspdManual Why not just go straight for a credits cheat? Speed run rules need to be reorganized so if you don't play it right, it's considered a different type of run. Still crap because you never actually "beat" the boss. Marvel vs Capcom would have given you the block of cheese for that "win".
To see you lay waste to a game that I never made it past the Water boss...smh
And Clunk!
This game feels like a clone of Fester's Quest and Metroid.
I got big meat
@Dumb Simp you know the empire state building? Actual Size
@Dumb Simp you like Wendy's?
@Dumb Simp you like dragons?
@Dumb Simp hey I love you man. Just saying.
@Dumb Simp woah, dude relax, there's kids I'm sure that watch these videos. Calm down
He had to cheat! I did not play it this way. I beat it the right way. Hours and hours of play.
29:49is what copliot says is the world record for this game however there is another youtube vid; a david tki claiming a 25:56. wonder if it's legit and copilot is misinformed, i'll have to watch the vid