Friday, August 17, 2012

Top 5 NES Story Premises: #2: Blaster Master


For all its jumping tanks, pause-powered grenades and mutated abominations, Blaster Master boils down to one thing: the love between a boy and his frog. It goes a little something like this:

Boy meets frog.
Boy taps on glass.
Boy loves frog.
Frog escapes.
Boy gives chase.
Frog gets first taste of freedom
Frog heads straight for radioactive waste left in boy's yard.
Frog irradiated.
Frog grows to grotesque size.
Frog jumps down massive hole in deathtrap yard.
Boy follows.
Boy finds super tank at pit's bottom.
Boy suits up.
TIME TO SHOOT STUFF!


2 comments:

  1. I used to have the novelization of this game...

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  2. I loved those books! Worlds of Power was the name of the series. A few years back, I found them all in a second-hand bookstore in Duluth. We plan to write about them someday!

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