This was my all time favorite game! I got the to last boss... and didn't make it. First time I ever rage quit.... I was 10. I also feel Arcus is the "Bob Ross'' of speedruns with his calm tones.
This game almost broke me as a kid. I've played it so much, there are places where my muscle memory was screaming at me. Btw, in the zone 3 area with Jason you can use the grenades to clear the red robot's faster if you can predict when they enter the screen. Great job! Oh, and that cheese on the last boss was great. I never knew you could hide in the corner like that.
Note that the guy is playing the Famicom/Japanese version of the game. I think I tried this once in the NA version, and I got nailed because I remember the thing whipping diagonally and smacking me.
Man, this really was one of the best NES games ever. I'd easily put it right up there with The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and Super Mario Bros. 3. It's actually my personal favorite NES game. Side note: On most of the stages on this game, I'd say it's hard to figure out where to go at first, but after you've done it, I'd say it's easy to remember.
Finally the love this game deserves. It's so beautiful especially for a 1988 title! And ahead of its time too, there are many elements to it that I still see today in Modern Metroidvania style games. The backtracking to previous levels to get to newer parts of them was done so well here, because it really feels like the player character and the S.O.P.H.I.A tank have actually improved! By the end when you have awesome powers like sticking to the walls, you can see all kinds of secrets, the game feels so expansive, it must have been amazing for the time. I wish I was alive back then to see what it was like. But even playing it nowadays as a milennial with no nostalgia for it, it remains my favorite NES game of all time. I think the only title that comes close to it for me would be Compile's The Guardian Legend. Another amazing multi genre game
@@auralunaprettycure I played it as a kid back in ‘89. I was obsessed with this game, I played and played until I beat it. And of course there were no saves. Sitting down to play Blaster Master was a time commitment!
I just remember playing this with my older brother as a kid and FINALLY finding the place that you can hover up at the beginning! We never beat it, but just that moment was so magical and fantastic that I'll always remember it.
I loved this game so much as a kid. It came out when I was half way through high school. I am almost 50 now and while I no longer have my NES, I saved the cartridges of my two most favorite games ever- Blaster Master and The Legend of Zelda. Great video and great job! Thanks for the memories!
I loved this game so much as a kid it was right up there with metroid for me. I was 8 or 9 and my family was moving, when we got to the new place everyone started unpacking and my parents just set up a tv and plugged in my NES and i played this all day while they worked. Happy to sub!
The sub 30 talk was good foreshadowing Arcus This reminds me of being 10 years old, not being smart or patient enough to beat the game, and still having a great time anyways
@DaChicken76 You didn't really need the powerups in Metroid to advance (you need the Morph Ball and bombs, Ice Beam, and some missile upgrades) as is typical in the Metroidvania scheme of things. Metroid and Zelda II were more like platformer versions of the original LoZ than Metroidvania. Blaster Master required all of the upgrades to actually advance rather than just make the game easier (similar to LoZ).
"I wonder how contentious the Blaster Master categories are." (Sees Arcus runs it) "I wonder what other games I could learn..." I'm JK though its great to see a loving legend on one of my favorite games.
FOR THE LOVE OV FROG!!! oh the memories. every one else had the zeldas metroid and the contras. i had this rygar and final fantasy. i lived the better life. road less traveled and all. as a kid never figured out how to do anything but endless hours ov shooting things was always a blas
The lag is so worth it though, with the awesome visuals and fast-paced gameplay that few NES games could ever come close to matching. I don't mind a little lag here and there.
Me: I loved this game as a kid! Hey, I think I never made it past this stage. I wonder what is next?! *ice physics appears* Me: Ice. In a NES game. what an amazing surprise.
As a kid this game and Clash at Demonhead I was obsessed with because I thought they were just the coolest but I was never able to beat them until I revisited them as a young adult.
Ah my childhood. Too bad I was never this good at it but I loved blaster master. I use to beat it over and over using game genie cheats. But this was one of my favorite games as a kid. I'm 41 now and still playing games. POE2 has all my time lately but I still have my original NES and copy of Blaster Master.
This game really showed off what the mmc1 mapper could do, a solid status bar on the screen with it is extremely hard to do let alone two and the graphics and sound when you get to area four and go into the water and the end boss fight look and sound like super metroid. Ninja turtles used the same tech as this game and released a year later.
everytime stage 3 music would begin my friends would always pretend to be newscasters 'The channel 4 news..with weather..sports ... all from the action newsdesk"
All time favorite from my childhood. I had a number of records in my day. Very recently finally found the final hoss on this one and beat it. Questions, #1 is the zone 5 glitch active on nes? #2 why do you pause at every room change?.
I used to run this game, but I didn't own original hardware, so instead I ran it on emulation. I couldn't get sub 36 to save my life, it's just so hard on emu. I'd love to come back to this game one day and see if I got what it takes, it's a fun run and was a powerhouse game in my childhood.
In the beginning of the game and in future spots, fire the weapon before those flying enemies appear so they get killed as soon as they appear to prevent too many enemies on the screen, which causes slowdown. Will save you some time..
Trying to figure out why this game wasn’t more popular like Mario. The gameplay value amazing even tho I never made it past the swimming level back then.
What??? When you do that "pause" thru the doors in the Pal Blaster Master, You always get stuck and have to reset the game! Why do this not apply to the Famicom version??
This game has a reputation for being very difficult, but to be honest when you think about it... there's only like... 3-4 difficult segments in the game: 1). Level 3 boss, because you can't cheese it. Even with full GUN, it's possible to screw up one too many times and end up losing. 2). Arriving at the Level 5 boss with full GUN and not 7. There's some of THE most cheap and aggravating BS like enemies popping out of thin air to hit you, etc, assuming you're going to _not_ glitch the fight like Arcus does. 3). Landing a Grenade + Pause on the Level 7 boss. 4). Killing the final boss. The big one is #2 that ends up being what ended a lot of my playthroughs back when I once played on original hardware. A screwup means a lot of backtracking to find somewhere you can build back up to 8 GUN to try the boss again. Thankfully, emulators have save state and I'm not a speedrunner. I'd say that even Level 8 isn't that hard, though I suppose there's like 2 jumps in there that if you mess up, you're going to die full-stop but with enough care and caution, you can make it. And if you go through it the normal way, one of the big rooms can be 90% skipped by intentionally falling through some spikes at the very beginning of the room.
Yeah. Level 5 boss is about as far as most people see in this game. I’ve never beaten it without level 8 gun as far as I can remember.... That’s probably the hardest fight in the game.
i got stuck in a wall (glitch) on the snes version after a dozen tries in on day (probly over heated idk) got so mad i threw the whole nintendo out the window. so glad i can see it here EDIT: not sure what time but i think it was much later under water
Was it the bugging through walls or did that section prior to the frog have the wrong palette? I seem to remember that being a blue waterish area not all fiery.
I remember borrowing this game from a kid whose parents actually owned and played the game, but had never beaten it. After I beat it, they asked me to come over and beat it again so they could see the ending. This was long before we knew of the grenade trick (or any of the crazy skips). To date, I'm the only person I know of that has beaten the crab boss in Area 5 straight up with no guns and no turbo fire. Did it on a true NES before we were all filming our exploits. Seeing that battle get cheaped-out like that was worthy of a dislike.
@@SubaruWRXspdManual Why not just go straight for a credits cheat? Speed run rules need to be reorganized so if you don't play it right, it's considered a different type of run. Still crap because you never actually "beat" the boss. Marvel vs Capcom would have given you the block of cheese for that "win".
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The soundtrack is so nostalgic for me. Was born in 83. This brings me back to when I was a kid
I cover almost the whole soundtrack on my channel!
Here’s level 4 ruclips.net/video/awcFWbUrVOY/видео.htmlsi=e7NWxOYz0fVRWeD4
Whenever I need to calm down, I come to watch Arcus videos. Damn this guy is chill AF.
And take a shit?
And take a shit?
This was my all time favorite game! I got the to last boss... and didn't make it. First time I ever rage quit.... I was 10.
I also feel Arcus is the "Bob Ross'' of speedruns with his calm tones.
This game almost broke me as a kid. I've played it so much, there are places where my muscle memory was screaming at me. Btw, in the zone 3 area with Jason you can use the grenades to clear the red robot's faster if you can predict when they enter the screen. Great job!
Oh, and that cheese on the last boss was great. I never knew you could hide in the corner like that.
Note that the guy is playing the Famicom/Japanese version of the game. I think I tried this once in the NA version, and I got nailed because I remember the thing whipping diagonally and smacking me.
Man, this really was one of the best NES games ever. I'd easily put it right up there with The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and Super Mario Bros. 3. It's actually my personal favorite NES game.
Side note: On most of the stages on this game, I'd say it's hard to figure out where to go at first, but after you've done it, I'd say it's easy to remember.
Finally the love this game deserves. It's so beautiful especially for a 1988 title! And ahead of its time too, there are many elements to it that I still see today in Modern Metroidvania style games. The backtracking to previous levels to get to newer parts of them was done so well here, because it really feels like the player character and the S.O.P.H.I.A tank have actually improved! By the end when you have awesome powers like sticking to the walls, you can see all kinds of secrets, the game feels so expansive, it must have been amazing for the time.
I wish I was alive back then to see what it was like. But even playing it nowadays as a milennial with no nostalgia for it, it remains my favorite NES game of all time. I think the only title that comes close to it for me would be Compile's The Guardian Legend. Another amazing multi genre game
@@auralunaprettycure I played it as a kid back in ‘89. I was obsessed with this game, I played and played until I beat it. And of course there were no saves. Sitting down to play Blaster Master was a time commitment!
One of the greatest games I've ever played man. It took me over six months of non-stop play to finally beat this game as a kid!
I just remember playing this with my older brother as a kid and FINALLY finding the place that you can hover up at the beginning! We never beat it, but just that moment was so magical and fantastic that I'll always remember it.
I loved this game so much as a kid. It came out when I was half way through high school. I am almost 50 now and while I no longer have my NES, I saved the cartridges of my two most favorite games ever- Blaster Master and The Legend of Zelda. Great video and great job! Thanks for the memories!
Has anyone else on here read the book based on this game? I actually loved it! I think I was playing the game around that time too.
Yep!! The worlds of power book right? Brings back such memories.
I cried at the end. 😂
I loved this game so much as a kid it was right up there with metroid for me. I was 8 or 9 and my family was moving, when we got to the new place everyone started unpacking and my parents just set up a tv and plugged in my NES and i played this all day while they worked. Happy to sub!
Love this guy. He gives strong “Don’t be jealous that I’ve been chatting online with babes all day” vibes.
This is still the best soundtrack of a game that has ever been made IMO. Every stage is different and gets you pumped ready to throw down!
The sub 30 talk was good foreshadowing Arcus
This reminds me of being 10 years old, not being smart or patient enough to beat the game, and still having a great time anyways
Finally discovered that tune I heard on AVGN! Thanks man!
I've been watching your videos. Finally, I subscribed!
Annnnnnnnnd clunk that was a good clunk. You have me saying that irl plus hey eat more so your mustache has time to not soft reset
I once had a white Mazda Axela I named SOPHIA III. Blaster Master is awesome as hell.
The birth of Metroidvania.
@DaChicken76 You didn't really need the powerups in Metroid to advance (you need the Morph Ball and bombs, Ice Beam, and some missile upgrades) as is typical in the Metroidvania scheme of things. Metroid and Zelda II were more like platformer versions of the original LoZ than Metroidvania. Blaster Master required all of the upgrades to actually advance rather than just make the game easier (similar to LoZ).
WRONG.
The birth of Metroidvania was 1997 when a Castlevania game was released that was like Metroid.
@@KaneRobot Simon's Quest was technically the first Metroidvania
What @@rushifellpainting4631 said.
"I wonder how contentious the Blaster Master categories are."
(Sees Arcus runs it)
"I wonder what other games I could learn..."
I'm JK though its great to see a loving legend on one of my favorite games.
Insane play. Played it when I was a kid. Best game with best music at the time!
FOR THE LOVE OV FROG!!!
oh the memories. every one else had the zeldas metroid and the contras. i had this rygar and final fantasy.
i lived the better life. road less traveled and all.
as a kid never figured out how to do anything but endless hours ov shooting things was always a blas
Thank you for showing somethings I never knew about one of my favorite games of all time!! Liked & subbed!!👍
Thanks for another upload, lol I see your twitch feed recommends Bob Ross, that's pretty fitting, you have a calm Bob Ross vibe in your videos.
For boss 5, I did not know that you could leave the room as the boss appeared and corner it’s hit box like that. Insane!
"This game sometimes has lag." -Arcus "Massive Understatement" McSpeedrunner
The lag is so worth it though, with the awesome visuals and fast-paced gameplay that few NES games could ever come close to matching. I don't mind a little lag here and there.
Good work man! Blaster Master is the best !
I never could figure this game out. I think i got to the second or 3rd boss. Did the bomb+pause kills.
What a great exploit for back in the day.
Superbes vidéos ,j'ai été impressionné sur le ring de soltice ,gg acus
Le run
Me: I loved this game as a kid! Hey, I think I never made it past this stage. I wonder what is next?!
*ice physics appears*
Me: Ice. In a NES game. what an amazing surprise.
As a kid this game and Clash at Demonhead I was obsessed with because I thought they were just the coolest but I was never able to beat them until I revisited them as a young adult.
Ah my childhood. Too bad I was never this good at it but I loved blaster master. I use to beat it over and over using game genie cheats. But this was one of my favorite games as a kid. I'm 41 now and still playing games. POE2 has all my time lately but I still have my original NES and copy of Blaster Master.
Well, I finished this game (no cheats) when I was in highschool.. 😎 this has best nes music. 👍
Agreed 100% I will say Kid Icarus has an amazing soundtrack too!! My fave is stage 2
This game really showed off what the mmc1 mapper could do, a solid status bar on the screen with it is extremely hard to do let alone two and the graphics and sound when you get to area four and go into the water and the end boss fight look and sound like super metroid. Ninja turtles used the same tech as this game and released a year later.
Best game ever made for nes/famicom. But difficult.
This was a game I played a lot of as a kid but never made it very far..
Been a long time since I seen this one. Great game.
Definitely one of the Top 20 NES games .... perhaps even top 10
It’s weird seeing a gamer in a cowboy hat.
See, I'd speedrun this game, but Kirkland makes awesomeness that keeps the controller out of my hands.
I couldn't decide whether to watch a let's play or parks and rec clips.
This works nicely. Thank's youtube recommendations.
I always look forward to the clunk
I play it when I'm was kid it's so difficult I don't know if can beat it now
Amazing run!!
everytime stage 3 music would begin my friends would always pretend to be newscasters 'The channel 4 news..with weather..sports ... all from the action newsdesk"
I could never finish this game I could never figure out where to go next
I remember getting this game for my 9th birthday present right before our house burnt down
Sadness my dude
Famicom has save states?? That sure would have been useful playing this on NES as a kid! We still loved it though, top 5 games and #1 soundtrack!
That’s my childhood right there
I may look like a video gamer, but you oughta see how fast I can lasso a herd of cattle.
All time favorite from my childhood. I had a number of records in my day. Very recently finally found the final hoss on this one and beat it. Questions, #1 is the zone 5 glitch active on nes? #2 why do you pause at every room change?.
I do know when you hit pause, the transition between screens is faster
@@stevedunne9186 and what about the zone 5 glitch you used.
Dunno, it's not me playing
The NES Version: the underwater later has to start from the bottom.
Nice speed-run.
how fast are his thumbs moving?!!!
I used to run this game, but I didn't own original hardware, so instead I ran it on emulation. I couldn't get sub 36 to save my life, it's just so hard on emu.
I'd love to come back to this game one day and see if I got what it takes, it's a fun run and was a powerhouse game in my childhood.
In the beginning of the game and in future spots, fire the weapon before those flying enemies appear so they get killed as soon as they appear to prevent too many enemies on the screen, which causes slowdown. Will save you some time..
Trying to figure out why this game wasn’t more popular like Mario. The gameplay value amazing even tho I never made it past the swimming level back then.
What??? When you do that "pause" thru the doors in the Pal Blaster Master, You always get stuck and have to reset the game! Why do this not apply to the Famicom version??
I was kind of hoping to see a non glitch run. But obviously well done.
Wow! Your pretty good, you must have advanced coordination like me! I’d like to see you do a Donald Land or Kyoro-Chan Land speedrun though! 😂
That final boss has way too much freaking hp
This game has a reputation for being very difficult, but to be honest when you think about it... there's only like... 3-4 difficult segments in the game:
1). Level 3 boss, because you can't cheese it. Even with full GUN, it's possible to screw up one too many times and end up losing.
2). Arriving at the Level 5 boss with full GUN and not 7. There's some of THE most cheap and aggravating BS like enemies popping out of thin air to hit you, etc, assuming you're going to _not_ glitch the fight like Arcus does.
3). Landing a Grenade + Pause on the Level 7 boss.
4). Killing the final boss.
The big one is #2 that ends up being what ended a lot of my playthroughs back when I once played on original hardware. A screwup means a lot of backtracking to find somewhere you can build back up to 8 GUN to try the boss again. Thankfully, emulators have save state and I'm not a speedrunner.
I'd say that even Level 8 isn't that hard, though I suppose there's like 2 jumps in there that if you mess up, you're going to die full-stop but with enough care and caution, you can make it. And if you go through it the normal way, one of the big rooms can be 90% skipped by intentionally falling through some spikes at the very beginning of the room.
Yeah. Level 5 boss is about as far as most people see in this game. I’ve never beaten it without level 8 gun as far as I can remember.... That’s probably the hardest fight in the game.
This was one of my very first games as a kid at 3 or 4 yr old or so. I never got past first lvl yet alone knew what the H was for lmao 🤣
Why does he pause between each screen
i got stuck in a wall (glitch) on the snes version after a dozen tries in on day (probly over heated idk) got so mad i threw the whole nintendo out the window. so glad i can see it here
EDIT: not sure what time but i think it was much later under water
Very nice run, man! Was curious about all the screen pauses when you transitioned to a new room. Does it save frames to do that?
If I had to wager a guess it just skips the scrolling room transition animation and unpauses in the new room.
Which Costco do you go to?
Nice run 👌
why the pause on every new section ?
Speeds up the screen transition
I played a lot of this game as a kid. Never got far. I don't know if the game was hard or if it was just me being terrible at it.
This literally might be the hardest title to play straight thru, without glitches on the nes.
It's a toughie but there's way worse.
Do you ever get the speed runs on the toilette?
Wow..... Just speechless
The jellyfish are actually metroids
What does the constant pausing do?
Holy shit your good
You can pause kill the bosses. On the NES one anyway.
Nevermind. lol
Love this guy
i like the title "metafight" better. :)
Why the constant pausing every doorway?
I believe it's faster than waiting for the screen to scroll.
Those were some good clunks
What happened to lvl4?
He skipped it by glitching through the locks, clearing level 5, then dying/continuing to get his Metal Attacker there with him.
Ahh yes, the level 4 boss gives the all powerful.....key. that saves some serious time. However that level has my favorite music.
Well...
Maybe not favorite, but most nostalgic for sure.
Did he really just beat Blaster Master in a half an hour? I managed to beat this game as a kid but it took forever.
That is Nintendo Entertainment System, not Famicom
It's such a shame they screwed with the Blaster Master Formula with the sequels. Why screw with perfection? Also, BMaster vs. Metroid?
I love that game....blaster master...
Was it the bugging through walls or did that section prior to the frog have the wrong palette? I seem to remember that being a blue waterish area not all fiery.
That’s the second frog boss. The boss of stage 4 is a frog in a watery area. He skips world 4 glitching through the lock.
I never even beat this game as a kid lol
Why the famicom version over NES? And what's the purpose of that pause thing in between the level screens?
Faster cut scenes in the Japanese. And the pausing between levels makes the scrolling between screens a lot faster.
Those warp glitches are famicom version only as I understand
Tasty snack 😅
I used to be able to beat this without a continue....
good clunk
Hi Jo Jo!
I'm currently in Colorado, I wanna buy you a cowboy hat...
He must be using a cheat cause how do you kill the boss in 1 shot with grenade
Mash at mash
Oh...you're a twitch streamer? I'll never catch your streams then. Don't have an account.
You should open one...
Awesome
$10 for this game at a local flea market. Should I get it? Peeps of the RUclips world?
I remember borrowing this game from a kid whose parents actually owned and played the game, but had never beaten it. After I beat it, they asked me to come over and beat it again so they could see the ending. This was long before we knew of the grenade trick (or any of the crazy skips).
To date, I'm the only person I know of that has beaten the crab boss in Area 5 straight up with no guns and no turbo fire. Did it on a true NES before we were all filming our exploits. Seeing that battle get cheaped-out like that was worthy of a dislike.
The stuff you don't like is common practice in a speed run.
@@SubaruWRXspdManual Why not just go straight for a credits cheat? Speed run rules need to be reorganized so if you don't play it right, it's considered a different type of run. Still crap because you never actually "beat" the boss. Marvel vs Capcom would have given you the block of cheese for that "win".
I did it in 20 flat
To see you lay waste to a game that I never made it past the Water boss...smh