Silly Master Blaster

Absurdity as a weapon. Silly Master Blaster from 1985 is exactly the kind of title that would emerge if the creator thought the name was the most important part of the game. Graphics? Minimalist. Sound? Plain. Content? A strange mix of a shooter and something few people today would understand without a manual.

It's a simple shoot-em-up where you fire from left to right and try not to get killed too much. The whole thing looks like something someone wrote on computers from the era when programmers thought cleverness was in the title and sound effects. Controls are straightforward — cursor, fire, survive. No brilliant tricks, no surprises. Just blasts and corpses.

What awaits you here? Cheap fun that lasts as long as you can keep clicking the keyboard. There aren't many levels, difficulty climbs like an endless staircase. The graphics are what they should have been in the mid-eighties — pixels that are neither pretty nor ugly, just boring. The audio accompaniment? Beeping like an alarm clock that got confused with a computer.

Today you'll play it as a curiosity. It's not a masterpiece worth huge amounts of your time, but it's craftsmanship. These simple titles were played when you were bored at the computer and didn't want to think. You load it in an emulator, play for ten minutes and you know what it is. Nothing more, nothing less.

If you have patience for retro stuff and enjoy testing relics from when computers and games meant the same thing as web games on your phone today, there's a place for it here. It's not a classic like Dangerous Dave or Commander Keen, but functional entertainment. An easy choice for a long winter evening.