So in continuation of my post yesterday of little Nemo, I've decided to make another post about another NES classic.
This time the feature game is Blaster Master. As with Nemo this is another game with some fantastic music, but probably the most well known feature of Blaster Master was the ability to jump in and out of your own personal tank at any time during gameplay.
The game starts with a boy named Jason who has a pet frog named Fred who, one day, decides to leap out of his fish bowl and out the door. Fred then touches a radioactive chest, and he grows to an emormous size; Fred and the chest then fall into a hole in the earth. Jason chases Fred down the hole, which leads to a large underground cavern. There, he finds an armored tank named SOPHIA THE 3RD a vehicle designed to battle radioactive mutants that live inside the earth. Jason mounts SOPHIA to find the whereabouts of Fred and to destroy the mutants and their leader the Plutonium Boss.
Blaster Master has two modes of gameplay that depends on the situation and location of the player. The first mode is where the player controls SOPHIA in a twodimensional platform mode; the second mode is where the player controls Jason while outside SOPHIA in either the same 2D platform mode or in a top-down perspective.
Gameplay in the top-down perspective consists of a series of labyrinths in which players navigate and defeat enemies along the way. Gameplay is non-linear, and players must return to earlier levels in order to advance to later levels in the game. The objective is to complete all eight levels and destroy the mutants and their bosses with various weaponry such as guns, grenades, and special weapons.
This game was a masterpiece, and still is imo, it also still has some of the best music in the entire NES library.
Gameplay/Music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Ebsa_Pc9U
Sunsoft made tons of great games, but this might have been their best.
