Pilot a really cool tank through level after level of coolness, while shooting mutants cyborgs and such. What more could you ask for?

Blaster Master is, and for ever will be a classic. This is no doubt attributed to the remarkable, and believable plot. After all, who can't relate to the average high school student who looses his pet frog only to find it has grown into a giant radioactive monster, only still to become the owner of weaponry that far suparsses the technology of our own, only still to get a really cool jumpsuit, spacehelmet, and blaster ray gun.

So after you get all the cool space stuff, you go around shooting things, only seems natural right? I'm not sure if you are supposed to save the world, or your stupid frog, but as we've said before, it really doesn't matter as long as you get to blow up some mutants.

I really like the controls in this game. You play as one of two things: your little guy, or your little guy piloting the Sofia tank. You can be the little guy everywhere, but usually its just for the overhead levels in which you can't bring along your tank (I know, why cant he just blow a hole in the wall and tank the tank in with him, sigh). It's good to saty in the tank most of the time because the gun is better, and falls don't hurt you. Your little guy however, can refill his life by going in and out of the tank, but he gets hurt by most falls. A good strategy is to get out of your tank, fight stuff, then hop back in to refill your life, dont do it by a ledge though, or you'll probolly die.

For 1988, it's got some pretty tight graphics. I can remember as a kid, loving the overhead seens. The bosses are extreamly cool looking, mutants and robots and eyeballs and such.

It's certainly not lacking in the music department either. For a while I thought that it had the same music throughout the whole game, then I realized there was a level two, lol.

This game is awesome, if you haven't played it, you're missing out. Enough said in that sentence. That's why it gets a whopping 9 on the Robot Scale.