Blade Buster
Blade Buster is a new homebrew NES shoot ’em up by the doujin group High Level Challenge. The game is based on the two time attack modes from the 1990 Turbografx-16 vertical shoot ’em up Super Star Soldier, in…
Blade Buster is an arcade developed by HLC! Project, released 28 September 2010 on Nintendo Entertainment System.
What Blade Buster is
Blade Buster is an arcade game developed by HLC! Project and released in 2010. It is available on Nintendo Entertainment System only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Blade Buster is a new homebrew NES shoot ’em up by the doujin group High Level Challenge. The game is based on the two time attack modes from the 1990 Turbografx-16 vertical shoot ’em up Super Star Soldier, in which you try to achieve the highest possible score in either 2 or 5 minutes. So there are only two short stages in the game, with the boss battles at the end of each one. Aside from the standard enemies, boxes, and gems, there are various hidden bonuses you can get for extra points.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Blade Buster launched on 28 September 2010, within three weeks of Fallout: New Vegas, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach and Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Released around the same time: Fallout: New Vegas, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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