Sonic Blast Man

Publisher: Taito

Designer: Taito

Type: Beat-em Up

Platform: SNES

Release: 1992

Rating:

Personally, I’m not a particularly big fan of the game genre I call ‘beat-em-ups’. This is basically where you play a character that simply punches and kicks their opponents into submission. This is what this game happens to be, though I should point out that it is probably a little more entertaining than some of the others, where you are simply a fighter in an arena and churn through opponents one by one. No, this one is somewhat different in that you are going on an adventure.

I found that the game was quite easy though. In fact, I found that it was a little too easy, namely because I had completed two levels before I actually died, and when I died I discovered that I had only lost one life. This, in my mind, suggests that the game really isn’t all that challenging. Okay, I’m certainly not one of those people that are going to be playing this game for hours on end because, as I mentioned, I’m not a particularly big fan of beat-em-ups. While it wasn’t boring by any sense of the word, still isn’t a game that I’ll be returning too.

C64Anyway, you can find out more about it on Wikipedia, which tells me that it used to be an arcade game, not that I would have ever played it mind you. It seems that it also made an entry onto TV Tropes, which I must admit surprised me, but it must have been popular.