NES Longplay [240] Blaster Master 

Sorry for your dad. Nice memories

The good old days. I have fond memories similar to yours of playing Rival Turf (SNES) with my dad before he passed away in 1992. I’ll never get rid of that game or that SNES because of the memories!

I have memories of my dad never wanting to buy an NES. He instead spend it drinking and buy the women at the bars drinks.

I used to play the game with my brother in thailand it is the best game from NES ever

So sorry to hear this. What great memories, though. Maybe you I ve got a kid who can carry the torch?

For sure!!! It was one of my favorites then & still is a great one to revisit.

The Guardian Legend is another.

I do im 42

I accidentally downloaded the Sega Genesis version. Now I'm going to play this.

I think most nes kids know about this game. It was of my favourites too. These songs are burnt into my psyche.

As a kid, you already knew the answer to such trivial things. Now, society has brainwashed you in exchange for employment and a class based society

+charles brown can you guarantee me a better job?

charles brown sheeeiiiiiit can I get a job in the first place???

Well, Monsanto didn’t mind dumping enough PCB into “ours” to the extent that not even the Hudson River can match it. The fish just exploded though.

@@FadingFires have you read about the frogs turning gay !?

I lost a toad once. This didn't happen.

Prequel to John Wick

And stay away from radioactive cans, tanks and caves that just happen to be in your backyard.

Lol

Im French , We eat frog , we dont lost

One of the few i never beat too

me too, lets finish em

I couldn't beat it with a game genie because there were no infinite health codes, only infinite lives. I just beat it as a 34 year old using an emulator with a dedicated rewind button and I promise you that once you beat it, you will feel like you can accomplish anything lol

@@michael30404 so true

The remake is on 3DS, Switch, PS4, PC. I'm playing this on my 3ds, an awesome game. Will get the sequel and the final game on PC (released by the end of July 2021).

I know exactly what you mean ,lol

+vkotis I think the intro is made for the US version Notice the boy's hair is red in the intro but turns blue in the ending. The original (Japanese) version Chô Wakusei Senki Metafight has no intro , and the tunnel in the beginning of the game is also different.

Lol for real I remember the intro, but now I'm sitting here like wtf, bro falls down a hole, puts on a random suit and hops into some space aged tank because he followed his mutant frog?

+Paeak Status In Chou Wakusei Senki Metafight, the game takes place on the planet Sophia the 3rd, located near the center of the Epsilon Milky Way, in which an advanced civilization flourished. In the year 2052, the emperor Goez, who has conquered the rest of outer space and declared himself as a god, and his "Inbem Dark Star Cluster" invade and conquer Sophia the 3rd. The only survivor of Goez's raid is the Science Academy's Nora Satellite, who has escaped and plans to build a weapon to defeat Goez's forces. They build an all-purpose tank called "Metal Attacker" that is driven by a boy named Kane Gardner to take the lead in the counterattack. The game's opening sequence shows Metal Attacker dropped into the battlefield.[1]The plot of the adapted Western release (Blaster Master) is shown at the beginning in a cinematic slideshow as ominous music plays in the background.[2] The game starts with a person 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 aradioactive chest, and he grows to an emormous size; Fred and the chest then fall into a hole in the earth.[3] Jason chases Fred down the hole, which leads to a large underground cavern.[3][4] While most sources say that Jason chased Fred down the hole, the game's instruction manual says that Jason fell into the hole while trying to reach for Fred.[3] There, he finds an armored tank named SOPHIA THE 3RD - a vehicle designed to battle radioactive mutants that live inside the earth.[3][4] Jason mounts SOPHIA to find the whereabouts of Fred and to destroy the mutants and their leader - the Plutonium Boss. The opening sequence has been described as "one of the greatest scenes in all of video games".[2][5]

BOW BOW

They got that ending from Castlevania.

Pet shop Tycoon was a horrible longplay.

Which was made by Sunsoft's competitor Moonhard?

Sheamus O'Heeman same, 91-92 for me in bicester me and my yonger brother watching our uncle tony play this everyday. I could get to L4 but mo further lol

Boy did you know about the trick about the boss pause it will the grenade is on and then un pause it’s only on level 2 and more but I forgot

Sheamus. Me and my brother played this too also in Germany. Was your dad in the army?

Same here, air force

@@myiiahlatimore1080 Yes, if you hit the boss with a grenade and pause it the grenade will cook him, then just unpause it once you're sure it's been long enough. Levels 2,4,6, and 7 ☺

This was my first game on NES back in 1992 I think and I never reached the end. Suddenly today it came back in my mind and I came here to see how to finish it.

Yeah i never made it past the frog this game was definitely hard and long.

I made it to the VERY LAST FIGHT several times; it isn't hard but the pre final-boss (The skeleton/demon guy) would always wear me down so low that I'd lose before I figured out how to fight the actually last boss. The guy doing the fight here made it (and Area 8) look pretty easy which is seriously impressive. Blaster Master had limited continues; something like 8 or 9 lives throughout the whole game. And no save system. So by the time you got to the end you were NERVOUS if you were running outta lives. Blaster Master's difficulty is True Difficulty though; the whole game is a deadly interrconnected maze; discovering the correct path (and knowing what paths to avoid!) and navigating it is a battle of pure attrition. It seems harmless enough all the way up to Area 3, where you abruptly hit a dead end. You could go through almost the entire game again at that point before discovering the next area to go is hidden in the FIRST ROOM IN THE GAME. And after all the attrition and battles up through Area 7, Area 8 is like a kick in the face. Although not long, every room can drain your health (and hover!) extremely rapidly. If you can even figure out where to go. Needless to say, I don't think anybody beat this game on their first try.

Naaa

Hell yea it was hard.

Hard as fuck

Not if you had Game Genie lol

it was hard when I rented it & only had 3 days to play it. when I bought it it only took like 7 months

The remake is great

This was the only game on the NES that I wanted to play and never did. I'm so glad now I have the Switch version and I'm loving it!

Maazio Genesis/Mega-Drive?

those are fkn metroids! BLASTER MASTER IS A CLASSIC! :D

: )

Could there be a connection with Metroid? I'm a big Metroid fan and also I think this game is sort of in the same universe as Metroid

Marcus Django Whitaker Devs were obviously inspired by Nintendo R&D1's Metroid.

Marcus Django Whitaker The new game Blaster Master Zero has an enemy called Mother Brain

You have no idea how grateful I am for this information 👍

This game was MONSTEROUS back then so much shit tough to beat My brother was very good at games and I dont think he got close to the end

​@@worsethanhitlerpt.2539I'm 18 so I hadn't played this game until I recently got an NES that came with it for around 40 dollars. I consider myself very good at old platformers but wow... this one has left me pretty stumped. Ive gotten very close to the end but only two lives till game over is brutal considering the later bosses are basically impossible without max gun power. Excellent game though.

yes very true. I especially remembered the amazing level design. it felt a little like metroid. Damn can't believe I played this game 25 years ago and still remembered everything so well, like level design and intro.

Ikr, you’ve got to really appreciate these games for what they are.

no printer just fax

totally bangin soundtrack as well

Its vary short so can i

He got the tank from eve

Same here, man. I'm 44 and I did play this game back in the day, but the amount of time I spent on it is not commensurate with how much I remember this song, lol. I'll sometimes break out whistling this song at work totally and completely out of the blue.

yeah, too bad they had that one little hiccup, goes by the name of Fester's Quest.

TonyBMan Oh Konami has some pretty bad ones too. "Castlevania 2"

TonyBMan Oh & also, Sunsoft did seem to go downhill when they're putting games on the Sega Genesis.

Your name was a total flashback. I had forgotten about those "Genesis Does What Nintendon't" ads, which were later followed by "Nintendo Is What Genesisn't." Sega didn't really think that one through. lol

blackrooster_ They made this because it was 1988 & they were proving that you can do on a Genesis than what the NES can't & shown games that blew people away. It wasn't until 1990 when Nintendo finally released the SNES which later Sega made the other famous commercial "Blast Processing" which all it means is that the Sega Genesis has a faster processor.

This is one that they could remake, not really change much at all and it would still be great! ~JagOfTroy

I wish I could play this on my Vita so freaking bad :( I just re-watched this and realized I only got about a third of the way through it. I always got stuck around the 35-40min mark

Makes me feel old that I got this for a Christmas gift as a kid. Great game

Sophia III: Vroom vroom! (Thank you!)

Dude, the music in kraids level in Metroid made me stay up with the TV on.

to the Guardian Legend

🤣

Totally agree!!! It's a hidden gem for sure. I also beat it around 1991 or 1992... on a Sunday afternoon, determined to make it happen, lol. My family never got a SNES system (*sniff*), but that's interesting about the gameplay being similar. We switched to computer games in the mid-90s instead, like Quake & Doom. But my bro & I still played Nintendo well into the end of the 90s when our Nintendo finally died :(

I cant beat it, so i watch this video so i can rest in peace

I wouldn't call that a glitch, it's just normal farming

You could use that trick for bosses 1, 2, 4, and 7. I wished it worked on boss 5. That one was the hardest in my opinion.

Ya no shit im a tropy hunter my self games arnt fun enymore

***** I could only get it to work on the frog. I played it when I was really young and I can't remember why I found that boss so difficult. Kinda hated myself a little for having such a rough time and cheating to get through it. But I played the rest of the game fairly. I can't remember that boss you mentioned; it's been too long. On another note, I just noticed that it looks like the player is shooting rainbow ice cream scoops at him. lol

blackrooster_ The pause method only works on certain bosses in this game. I had a very hard time with the lever 5 boss, but the rest of them weren't too bad.

@@TheLoveMario I know this is a late reply, and perhaps you have matured. But it was not a glitch. It was clearly denoted in Nintendo Power that you could use the grenade trick on the level 2, 4, 6, and 7 bosses. And they called it a cheat. Nevertheless, we certainly are splitting hairs with saying exploiting a glitch isn't cheating. I would think that any time you do something the developer(s) didn't intend, you are cheating. And, insulting someone blindly is pretty sad. Like I said, hopefully you have grown up.

Well then, you're going to hate the area 5 boss.

been there done that, i had to reset and start all over

That spot is 'rage-quit' central.

You can get out with a light touch on the jump button and a little horizontal momentum.

it takes a true pro to do that

I've been stuck down there. It's a real test of not throwing your controller. :p

I haven't tried that yet. you can't advance to the next level without the powerup so i'd say you can explore the level with no music but you can't go to another area.

yeah that you can do

I agree with you.

They actually showed that off at 1:01:05

The pause trick.

Would be a neat idea to include the tank too.

VerdantAssassin Umm... The main character's name is Jason.

This one required 'Iron Man' mode gaming style in order to conquer. xD ~JagOfTroy

or you could had done like most of us did back in the day... turn the TV off but keep the console on when mom wasnt looking ;)

Yah, that was a drag to always start over. At least the music made it worthwhile, & since you had to keep restarting it, you got really good at the earlier levels... but the later ones, not so much! It was so frustrating to die at levels 6 & 7. I got to level 8 the 1st time & lost, so I was determined & committed myself to a Sunday afternoon in the early 90s to beat the game. It took me a few hours (maybe about 4-6 the 1st time? I liked wandering around), but I did it, lol. Then luckily Zelda had a save function!

Im glad that the remake has a save function, but there is little no penalty to dying except for losing what ever progress you made. There are no lives afterall. But with save points outside every boss door, I found myself allowing death to take me on bad runs so I could give the boss fights better shots.

+Jag of Troy Bro we know who the fuck is commenting you don't need to sign it off

Blaster Master 2 actually wasn't a sequel. It's like the whole "Snake's Revenge" thing, some US developers unconnected to the original team decided to make a US-only "sequel" to a Japanese game (Metafight). The original Game Boy was a retitled Bomberman game. Same goes for the Playstation game that I can't remember the exact title of. The only TRUE sequel to this game is Metafight EX for the Gameboy Color (released in the US as Blaster Master: Enemy Below).

Ms. Pac-Man is another good example. Although it's a superior game, it and a second unlicensed sequel (this one more of a dud) was why Namco yanked their contract with Bally-Midway (Williams Entertainment). On the other hand, it didn't stop them from grabbing the rights to Ms. Pac-Man.

i think copyright bs over this game would come from sunsoft not nintendo

Cloud Air i was thinking that ...except nintendo started selling it on their virtual console. I just wanna play it without nintendo gettin their meaty hooks in it

Bacon Creepy

Nintendo only claims videos of their own IPs. Blaster Master is owned by Sunsoft.

V. V. Lmao

Sorry about your dad. This was my son's first game (He was born in '85) We played all the classics . When Double Dragon came to the home platform we were on it non stop

HawaiiRebel Yea I did. I did it on the second crab boss. ~JagOfTroy

CrazyasaFox Sweet! Thanks for the awesome video! brings back lots of memories.

OMFG i've never heard anyone else that knew this trick besides me!!!

The original Japanese game was called "Metafight" and it had alot of cool differences.

I know exactly the "Room of Destiny/Doom" that you're talking about. Get past that room and into the "guts/intestines" looking part and you're golden. Homing missiles are your friend for sure!