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Inside the NES Worlds of Power Series
If you grew up in the 80s, chances were you'd at least heard of the Nintendo Entertainment System. For those of us that read Nintendo Power, ate Nintendo cereal, and (ahem) for a brief time even wore a Nintendo hat, the NES experience was fairly powerful. As such, reading about Nintendo games is a perfectly logical step. 1up has a long piece looking at the World of Power book series, a series of novelizations of some of the most popular NES titles of the day. Castlvania, Master Blaster, and Metal Gear all received the literary treatment ... with varying degrees of success. From the article: "This trend toward whitewashing death and violence also extended the books' text. In Blaster Master, all the defeated 'underboss' characters that look like mutated animals turn out to be holographic projections placed over formless blobs. In Metal Gear, Solid Snake is described as a 'walking arsenal,' yet he only uses his various weapons to shoot locks off doors. In Ninja Gaiden, Ryu's father is shown losing a duel to the death in the game's prologue, and is said to have passed away in the book's early chapters. Yet he turns up at the very end of the book, very much alive. In Infiltrator, a double agent that is ordered to be sent away to be 'voided' has his fate described as either having his memory wiped, being exiled, or getting demoted." So, how many folks (besides me) actually read these thing?
The article summary refers to "Blaster Master" as "Master Blaster" and then the article says it was a Capcom game, when in reality it was a Sunsoft game.
Blaster Master
I just pooped your party.
Yeah, it's really uncommon to run out of metal blades in general unless you're a poor shot and waste a lot of them. Still, once you get them, they tend to get a LOT of use in stages.
On the other hand, Mega Man 2 was the game that taught me an interesting lesson in terms of Mega Man games-- as soon as I get to the final boss, I think to myself, "Okay, what's the most USELESS weapon in my arsenal? That simply HAS to be its weak point."
Bubble Lead. Top Spin. Electric Spark. Strike Chain.
It's always the most difficult to use weapon, the one that almost NEVER is effective elsewhere in the game.