Blaster Master by davidtki in

Run starts at 00:40.
Couch commentary is provided by UraniumAnchor and skavenger216.
SporadicErratic is host.
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Run starts at 00:40. Couch commentary is provided by UraniumAnchor and skavenger216. SporadicErratic is host.

[@SwitcherooU]

Dude made it look so easy that no one knew when to clap.

[@mariuszj3826]

@@Mr.Murphy2 Not all people know all the nuances of the game. It's not unusual.

[@mustbetrippin7406]

One of the most fun games of all time. Such excellent replayability, it's eternal.

[@kimmolaine8069]

It's great that there are two other people narrating the thing while the player can focus on playing.

[@douglasmurphy3266]

Skipping the 4th area boss is how Fester's Quest got infested with frogs

[@uraniumanchor]

Doing commentary for this was a lot of fun. Reminder that this run would currently take 3rd on the leaderboards, and that's only because David's PB is 3 seconds faster!

[@soulofcoal1558]

Those resets, door glitches, and the lava skip completely broke the speed. I'm legit impressed.

[@Nargaroth]

That first song... One of the best songs in gaming. So catchy.

[@bdhoward1377]

Touching speech at the end of a great run, Congrats David!

[@hcpnator]

Amazing run David, good job dude!

[@Choralone422]

Blaster Master was the 3rd NES game I ever owned. Never made it past area 6 back then. Nice to see a run done so masterfully! Awesome work!

[@iiiiiifggffggffgfgfg]

Area 5 was stupid hard. Got to Area 7 once, otherwise most runs were done at 5.

[@lapthom]

I only got through area 6 by accidently learning the boss grenade pause glitch on the boss. Got Wall 2 trolled in the spike rooms in Area 8 though, and never got to the final boss before playing on emulator years later...

[@solidusflux]

I remember reading about the pause glitch for killing bosses in Nintendo Power as a kid. Good memories.

[@bcdfezz]

One of my favorite games growing up. Nice job almost beating your PB!

[@txtpeer5179]

One of the best NES soundtrack ever made !

[@Gigawood]

Sunsoft games all had amazing music.

[@strubberyg7451]

Never realized how much of a remake is Blaster Master Zero is! Really glad it got a shoutout! Play Blaster Master Zero 2, it's even better than the first!

[@lvcsslacker]

man this game has such good music... AHH!

[@kittykat5090]

Gotta say, it's really weird seeing the original Blaster Master compared to Blaster Master Zero.

[@meurigvii]

This run was incredible! I just started running this game a week ago and finally hearing someone explain the lava skip the way you did helped me figure it out! GG!

[@doslover]

Very thanks for the great run!

[@actuallynotsteve]

The was one of the first games I ever owned, think I was 4 or 5 when I started playing it. Shaped my taste in games forever, it was Metroidvania before that was even a thing. It was ruthlessly hard.

[@kevinfishburne]

Inspires imagination in playing it almost as much as remembering playing it; awesome.

[@TheFarmersLife]

I don’t think ever got beyond area 2 when I was a kid. This is really impressive.

[@m.a.packer5450]

This was immensely fun to watch

[@mikigirl18]

I like how they re-introduce themselves every time there's a reset. XD

[@EdwardHowton]

I played this game so much as a kid. Never owned it, must've been from when I was carted around by my parents to boring visits to their friends who had it. Never got past that damn green door creature thing at the very beginning. Seeing it crushed is... satisfying.

[@DrkPhoenixSaga]

Fantastic run! Level 4 always scared me as a kid with that music. So funny how you basically skip it altogether.

[@TheHexidecimal]

Davidtki rules! Thanks for the nostalgic kick!

[@angelsandautobots]

The pause glitch for bosses was actually advertised in an issue of Nintendo Power way back in the NES days. It's awesome to see it hasn't changed! 😅👍

[@howdears2114]

Love what you do guys

[@AveMcree]

Faaaaaaavorite game really wish for proper sequel

[@matthewswauger7288]

They did a nice remake called Blaster Master Zero. The sequel to that came out recently as well.

[@billranes1214]

Too easy unless you use Shovel Knight

[@skavenger2163]

@@billranes1214 Try playing destroyer mode then

[@mastershake9801]

That last boss reminds me of the one boss from Fester's Quest. I know it's the same company that makes each, but it's fun to see characters cross from game to game.

[@RjVanXetten]

Especially the bullet sounds and some of the effects are identical

[@mag1cally569]

he made this look so easy!

[@digimon916]

Love this game. It is THE FIRST game i beat. I was in 3rd grade, 1993. This game turned me into a gamer.

[@Silverset_]

Never realized how close I was to beating this game. I couldn’t beat the boss directly before the final boss. Didn’t know about that trick on him!!

[@cerberus144]

FROGGY COME BACK

[@djhinrg]

This used to be my favorite late night game back in the days. Damn! I hate dying, a lot!

[@moumobile5639]

thx for the amazing run.

[@aricpont3034]

Dude awesome run

[@DoverBoy20]

Dude wrecked the game, so nice!

[@toast1643]

Very Thanks

[@betterinsodapop]

Great run!

[@MrObama-ye2xz]

I remember when it took me and my dad about 2 days to beat the game, we had to keep the Nintendo turned on overnight so we don't lose our progress and this guy beats it in 25 minutes

[@Chronicskillness]

Sick run. Near world record.

[@filorvus6982]

BTW music is really good in this game. Like near Big Nose Caveman music good

[@BoxSox82]

Great job on the run!

[@83joonior]

Stage 3, then 4, are the best sounctracks

[@KlibMastah]

There is also a glitch with the start button on level 3 if you have the multitap and turbo on. You can jump and start the spike wall and skip to the final level.

[@BxCx666]

Damn what a run! Amazing!

[@civedm]

I havent played this game in so long.

[@EllianaVr564]

I loved watching you kill those stupid 8 machines that make up the level 3 boss. I would always end up chasing the last 2 or 3 around the room. Also pretty funny how you turned the level 5 crab boss into a mechanical box that you fight in an adjacent room. Yall are crazy lol

[@Therockerrick]

Too awesome

[@OptimisticCynic715]

Rented this. Spent hours on it. Got about halfway through.

[@drwilyecoyote5357]

There is a novel based on blaster master. Pretty sure it's based on the jp version. Had it as a kid.

[@syrelian]

Worlds of Power is a strange and very cool novel, but its largely based on Blaster Master's story rather than MetaFight's

[@RjVanXetten]

Best music is always stage 3

[@lordcolinb]

❤ go

[@johnnynorwood3697]

Sound like The Castle from the first Mario

[@roccojpb]

hello my name is jose, I am a lover of the blaster master, I have a question: can these plays be made in the American game? It is what I have and I spend in 49min expensive picking up weapons and without glich from what I see the Japanese version is easier. good game and thanks for reading my comment forever blaster master nes.. love this songs

[@syrelian]

Many of the glitches showcased are not possible on the US release, US and EU releases have their own slew of bugs and glitches though, with EU's being exceptionally abusable and powerful

[@mariuszj3826]

Hi, David.

[@drwilyecoyote5357]

So it's faster to just spam bombs than pause for 60 seconds?

[@tonywong8134]

Since there are so many differences between the US and Japanese version shouldn't the title reflect that?

[@WillSmith-ur1ok]

who remember the code when you hit the boss and pause and wait for a second he dies why they aint bring this back yet

[@nickfanzo]

He does that

[@garvensman]

“Metroidvania” games existing 2 generations before Symphony of the night ever existed, which was the name used to describe that particular game, is why the phrase needs to die.

[@Animebryan2]

No it doesn't, nor does SoN have anything to do with that! Both the original Metroid & Castlevania had a fully connected, explorable world which is what the name refers to.

[@syrelian]

@@Animebryan2 Uhhh, no it didn't, the original Castlevania was a linear side-scrolling platformer, Castlevania 2: Simon's Curse, however had an explorable world similar to what you describe Everyone however does attribute this genre phrase to SotN