Blaster Master (video game)

Blaster Master
A dog-like enemy representing the Plutonium Boss is in the center of the image with a large, red crosshair above and off-center of the boss. Below the boss is yellow text that says "Authentic Arcade Edition!" To the left of the boss in the image are two seals of approval by Nintendo, one of them gold and the other being red. Above the boss and the crosshair, towards the top and aligned to the left, is the title of the game "Blaster Master" in brown and all caps. On the very top of the image is a blue tip that contains the Sunsoft logo in red letters followed by black text saying "for the Nintendo Entertainment System". The background of the image are closeup shots from the video game itself.
Developer(s)Sunsoft[a]
Publisher(s)Sunsoft
Director(s)Hiroaki Higashiya
Koichi Kitazumi
Designer(s)Kenji Sada
Composer(s)Naoki Kodaka
SeriesBlaster Master
Platform(s)NES
Release
  • JP: June 17, 1988
  • NA: November 1988[1]
  • PAL: April 25, 1991
Genre(s)Platform, run and gun, Metroidvania
Mode(s)Single-player

Blaster Master is a platform and run and gun video game released by Sunsoft for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is a localized version of a Japanese Famicom game titled Chō Wakusei Senki Metafight (超惑星戦記メタファイト, lit. "Super Planetary War Chronicle: Metafight", also simply called Metafight), which was released on June 17, 1988. The game was released in North America in November 1988 and in Europe on April 25, 1991. The game is the first in the Blaster Master series, and it spawned two spin-off games as well as two sequels.

The game features a character named Jason who follows his pet frog Fred down a hole in the earth. There he finds a tank and uses it to battle radioactive mutants. The player controls Jason and the tank Sophia the 3rd through eight levels of gameplay to find the whereabouts of Fred and to defeat the mutants and their leader, the Plutonium Boss. The game was praised for its smooth play control and level designs, detailed and clean graphics, and music, and it was criticized for its high difficulty level and lack of passwords or save points. The game was novelized by Peter Lerangis, as part of the Worlds of Power series published by Scholastic Books.

  1. ^ "NES Games" (PDF). Nintendo of America. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 11, 2014. Retrieved August 9, 2015.
  2. ^ Gancer, Stefan (18 August 2017). "The History of SUNSOFT Part III: The Golden Age Part 1". VGArc. Archived from the original on 18 August 2017. Retrieved 18 August 2017. [A]ccording to Gimmick! creator Tomomi Sakai, Tokai is just a dummy company, like Konami's Ultra and Palcom brands, created to circumvent Nintendo's rules restricting the number of games a developer could publish for the Famicom/NES in a year. Former Sunsoft programmer and Trip World creator Yuichi Ueda, Blaster Master creator Kenji Sada, and current Chief Director of SUNSOFT Shigeki Shimizu confirm this. Tokai is a dummy company.


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