Blaster Master (video game)

Blaster Master, known in Japan as Super Planetary War Chronicle: Metafight or simply Metafight, is a 1988 platform/run and gun video game developed and published by Sunsoft for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game is the first in the Blaster Master series, and spawned two spin-off games as well as two sequels. The game follows Jason as he discovers a tank known as Sophia the 3rd, which he uses to battle radioactive mutants. The player controls Jason and the tank through eight levels of gameplay in order to find the whereabouts of Jason's pet frog Fred, and to defeat the mutants and their leader, the Plutonium Boss.

Blaster Master was praised for its smooth play control, level designs, detailed and clean graphics, and music, but was criticized for its high difficulty level and lack of passwords or save points. The game was novelized by Peter Lerangis as part of the Worlds of Power series by Scholastic Books.