Blaster Master 1988 Sunsoft 20 From Nes 19

Fun, explorative run and gun/platform hopping game with several cool gameplay elements and a fairly daft plot that doesn't remotely hurt the gameplay (though the original game, Meta Fight, has several differences including the plot). As a young boy named Jason you see your pet frog Fred escape its dish and hop outside. A mysterious container of radioactive material that seems to have just sprouted up from the ground turns Fred into a giant frog, and he jumps down a hole in the ground. Jason follows, and comes across a battle tank and a battle suit in the underground caverns. Jason fights various mutants in and out of the battle tank, which gains new abilities as he beats bosses and collects new components for it. The tank can eventually break all manners of blocks, crawl walls, crawl ceilings, fly short distances, etc. When Jason is on foot he suffers much greater damage from enemies and especially from falling great distances, though he regains energy completely when he re-enters the tank; the tank must acquire "P" icons from destroyed enemies after taking damage (they can also restore Jason's energy meter). Special underground labyrinths, denoted by a door too small for the tank to enter, are accessible by foot and show a complete shift in action perspective. Jason cannot jump in these scenarios, but his gun is more powerful and can be powered up by collecting gun symbols. His most powerful gun is a wave beam like in Metroid and can go through walls! In one of these labyrinth areas in a stage is a room with a boss. In the labyrinth areas, Jason has unlimited grenades for short-range and stronger attacks; these are ideal against bosses, and on half of them you can pause the game as the grenade takes effect and wait for 20 seconds. Then unpause and you've defeated the boss! There is so much to love about this awesome game; my favorite things are the special additions you get for your tank after beating bosses, the fabulous music, and the open-ness of the game (you can go back and forth between stages and pick up special items or access areas you couldn't reach before when you didn't have your current tank abilities). Plus, the graphics are pretty good. This is part of a series of Blaster Master/Meta Fight games, and you owe it to yourself to check out Meta Fight for the Famicom to see all the differences between it and Blaster Master (different plot and a female assistant/love interest not mentioned in BM, especially). HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!

P.S. Sorry about the sound not always being consistent in the vid-- my NES emulator had some issues with this game at times, especially with wanting to crash every time I paused the game (it eventually fixed itself)!

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