{"id":478,"date":"2008-07-07T12:56:46","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T17:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/478"},"modified":"2008-07-07T13:22:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T18:22:08","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-blaster-master-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/478\/retro-scan-of-the-week-blaster-master-2","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Blaster Master 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/blastermaster2_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/blastermaster2_small.jpg\" alt=\"Blaster Master 2 Ad - 1993\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;Mutant scum never learn!&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Being a huge fan of the original <em>Blaster Master<\/em> for the NES, I went gaga when I first discovered that Sunsoft had developed (yes, I missed it at the time, along with everyone else) a <em>Blaster Master 2<\/em> for the Sega Genesis.  And so it was that <em>BM2<\/em> became one of the first Genesis games I emulated on a PC in the mid-late 1990s.  And I was disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>If you get past <em>Blaster Master 2&#8217;s<\/em> horribly tinny FM-synthesis music, you&#8217;ll find a cartoonish technicolor imitation of the original.  <em>BM2<\/em> somehow lacks the epic feel of the original <em>Blaster Master<\/em> (maybe it&#8217;s the color palette), and instead resembles a straight-up <em>Turrican<\/em>-esque 16-bit platform shooter.  Still, if I could get past the first stage (and turn down the volume), I feel like <em>BM2<\/em> might be fun.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Electronic Gaming Monthly, June 1993 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s your favorite Sega Genesis \/ Mega Drive game of all time?<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mutant scum never learn!&#8221; Being a huge fan of the original Blaster Master for the NES, I went gaga when I first discovered that Sunsoft had developed (yes, I missed it at the time, along with everyone else) a Blaster Master 2 for the Sega Genesis. And so it was that BM2 became one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-nes-famicom","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}