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Episode 491: Blaster Master (Patreon)

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2022-10-24 11:00:06
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2026-06
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After putting together a lengthy episode of NES Works on Blaster Master and editing Stefan Gancer's excellent The History of Sunsoft, I've had that series on my mind quite a bit this year. Naturally, I decided to scrape as much content from my work as I could. I work harder and smarter. I'm halfway to being successful!

Fellow Blaster Master fans Stuart Gipp and Todd Ciolek joined me for this conversation, which covers the series (both the handful of good games and the many misbegotten ones) all the way up to IntiCreates' excellent Blaster Master Zero games. The most recent ones aren't even retro! Not a shabby legacy for a series that began by sending children out to catch a frog that as trying desperately to escape from captivity. In Blaster Master, YOU are the villain.

Art by Greg Melo; edits by Greg Leahy. Musical selections:

13:31 - Blaster Master: Forest

20:50 - Blaster Master: Underwater

31:34 - Blaster Master: Intro

41:12 - Blaster Master: Boss Battle 1

52:01 - Blaster Master: Factory

1:04:37 - Fester's Quest: Title Theme | Blaster Master Boy: Main Theme

1:17:49 - Blaster Master: Blasting Again: Water Gate

1:29:55 - Blaster Master Zero: Fire the Blaster Rifle

Closing - Blaster Master: Ending

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Normallyretro

Save that frog! Then shoot it when it's a boss.

littleterr0r

I had Blaster Master as a kid and I foolishly traded it away. I say foolishly because I don't even remember what I traded it for.

John Simon

Always wondered about the Blaster Master sequels outside of the modern era and …well… safe to ignore them, then! Wild how Nintendo power was such a king maker. it’s like - NOA knew they were going to throw some weight behind this game. No idea who came up with the additional frog story, but if they were hacking in a new intro they could have hacked in a password system. But as was mentioned - it’s 1988 - they’re not really optimizing for fun over time. More like hedging against rentals I never had the cash for an NES, and wound up reading the Worlds of Power book years before I got to play the game. P.S. I’ll find my frog. Who took my frog.

GameBoyJames

Thanks Jeremy, for using the word “perspicacity.” Good word, excited to add it to my vocabulary.

Multiplayer Dungeon

Just a technical question. Is there something wrong with the patreon $5 rss feed? I tried adding it to podbean and got the very helpful message, "failed".

Christopher DeMichiei

Great timing on this episode! I had just started playing through all three Blaster Master Zero games in the last 2 wks!

xarathion

After listening to the episode, I popped the game again for the first time in a while in order to experience it with fresh eyes, but with one crucial difference: playing with the NES Advantage instead of the standard controller. Joystick for 8-way movement and rapid fire sure makes the top-down segments a whole lot more fun.