| adjohnston10 said: Teegorb > ghostbang. I would like to take a poll. Who thinks blaster master > ocarina of time? Or even the question of who as even heard of blaster master? |
It's neither my fault nor Blaster Master's fault that young ruffians like you have no interest in educating themselves in gaming history that took place before their teen years.
Blaster Master was a NES game, which had 2 sequels on Game Boy, 1 on Genesis, and 1 on PlayStation.
I wrote the game summary for the database, and I made an animated .gif of the intro. I shall copy that summary and animation below.
Here is the intro to the game. It explains everything.
After this madness, you find yourself in an incredible 2-D platformer. You travel both on foot and in your tank. There are topdown rooms scattered about, some of which will have a boss, which will be guarding an upgrade for your tank. Each upgrade grants you access to the next area (by letting your tank climb walls or hover for short distances, etc.), and the whole world is connected in this way without traditional stages.
All Ocarina added was dialogue, shopping, and a pesky 3rd dimension. Blaster Master even has an underwater dungeon. You get a tank upgrade that lets you drive underwater like a submarine.
Ocarina was an amazing game, especially for 1998, and one of the greatest games to ever follow this formula. I won't argue that. But if you played Blaster Master in 1988, you'd know it was nothing new. Incredible, but nothing new.
And now you know.
