Blaster Master (book)
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Blaster Master is a young adult novelization of the video game Blaster Master, and the first book in the Worlds of Power series. The book is attributed to "A. L. Singer," which was a pen name for Peter Lerangis. It was published by Scholastic in 1990.
My mother allowed me to buy this book from a monthly school book catalog. Although I didn't know anything about the game on which it is based, the fact that it was about an NES game enticed me. I enjoyed the book enough that it made me seek out and play the game. It was only then that I learned how little the book had to do with the game.
Review
Good
- The book is fun and properly geared toward children.
- The book has a much more interesting backstory than the American game's "boy's pet frog escapes and leads him to radioactive waste where he falls into an underground cavern and steals a futuristic tank."
- The characters created for the book add important camaraderie to the main character, and allow dialogue to an otherwise dialogue-free game. The character Eve was even ret-conned into later installments of the game!
Bad
- The book uses a lot of artistic license adding to and changing a fair amount of the game.
- Some of the writing is a bit hokey, but then, it is written for elementary school students.
- The jokes surrounding Eve's inability to grasp American idioms are pretty bad.
- The book glosses over the later levels, bosses, and power-ups of the game with a single page.
Ugly
- Nothing.
Media
- Worlds of Power - Blaster Master - Paperback - USA - 1st Edition.jpg
1st edition, US paperback.
- Worlds of Power - Blaster Master - Paperback - USA - 2nd Edition.jpg
2nd edition, US paperback.
- Worlds of Power - Blaster Master - Paperback - UK.jpg
UK paperback.
Links
- goodreads.com/book/show/762662.Blaster_Master - GoodReads.
- atarihq.com/tsr/odd/scans/bm.html - Review.
- gamebooks.org/Item/3632 - Game Books.