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"The last update to the game saw the addition of Ryu Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden. His inclusion made Crossover even more fun, and gave us all a reason to come back to it. Let's face it, we've all played through it several times by now, so we're ready for something more. While it's just a Flash game, it's already created a fairly large following, and this new addition is sure to sate those eager fans. What's that? You've never heard of SOPHIA?"
Yoshiaki Iwata, creator of the original Blaster Master for the NES and producer ofBlaster Master: Overdrive sat down with Lv42 to discuss the original as well as Blaster Master: Overdrive, commenting on design, old memories, struggles, the disappearance and reemergence of Sunsoft, his personal view on Blaster Master, the next direction for Sunsoft, and why “retro” games matter.
Icrontic's articulate CB Droege brings us this week's interesting new releases in gaming. Featured this week are Bioshock 2, The Daring Game for Girls, Dante's Inferno, and Blaster Master Overdrive
Icrontic's ever-jovial CB Droege brings us this week's interesting new releases in video gaming. This week, the Wii Virtual Console brings the NES classic "Blaster Master" and Konami unleashes Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.
"Blaster Master was released in November of ‘88 by Sunsoft (now defunct in the US), and was met with positive reviews and respectable sales. Oddly enough, it never garnered the kind of notoriety that similar games like Metroid and Zelda enjoyed immediately after their release. Since 1988, Blaster Master has had four sequels, been listed 63rd on Nintendo Power’s Top 100 Games of all Time, 184th on EGM’s Top 200 Greatest Video Games of All Time, and is widely considered one of the most underrate..."
"Oh the 80s. Bad haircuts, moderately entertaining family sitcoms, and the first glimpses of the technology boom. What else were the 80s known for? How about the emergence of the home video game platform that entertained an entire generation of people with great games?"
"Remember the first time you played a game where you couldnt get by the first level no matter how hard you tried? Remember thinking to yourself that you spent 3$ dollars borrowing a game that was so difficult you wanted to return it and ask for something more tolerable?"
![Box shot of Blaster Master [Europe]](http://i.neoseeker.com/boxshots/R2FtZXMvTmludGVuZG9fRW50ZXJ0YWlubWVudF9TeXN0ZW0vQWN0aW9uL1Nob290ZXI=/blaster_master_frontcover_small_T6Ruk5BZmWcRSds.jpg)