Final Blaster
A vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up that configures its difficulty to match the skill of the player. Final Blaster is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up for the PC Engine. The player is part of squadron of…
Final Blaster is a shooter, released 28 October 1990 on Wii and TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine.
What Final Blaster is
Final Blaster was released in 1990. It was published by Namco Bandai Games. It is available on Wii and TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up that configures its difficulty to match the skill of the player. Final Blaster is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up for the PC Engine. The player is part of squadron of fighters sent to save the world from an alien invasion. Final Blaster hosts a number of features that are distinct to the game: the first is a charge shot that resembles a phoenix and is the only form of projectile that can destroy certain larger enemies. The second is that the game configures its difficulty depending on how many power-ups the player has when finishing a level, or how often they've been destroyed. The game was unique to the PC Engine and did not see an international release…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Final Blaster launched on 28 October 1990, within three weeks of Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe and Review: Jashin Fukkatsu.
Released around the same time: Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, Review: Jashin Fukkatsu.
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