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Buster Blitz II: Muton's Menace (Sorry it's so late)
15 years ago
To see the first/previous entry along this line, read this: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/989762/
Well, it's been over a year, during which time I lost track of where on my computer the file for this little Infaux collection was. Comments below are intended as a suggestion box.
Anyways, here is part 2 of the Buster Blitz series false information.
Buster Blitz II: Muton's Menace
(Arcade: 1990, NES/Famicom: 1991, Sega Genesis: 1993, Super NES/Famicom: 1993)
Muton's Menace marked the return of the Busters approximately two years later when Professor Gene's daughter is now a high school senior. With Daniel, Toby, and Viki now serving as body guards, the game begins when Dr. Muton, operating from his prison, has his mutants crash in and abduct the girl again, leading our mutant canine heroes in a ballroom blitz! Amidst the chaos, Alice was abducted again and they had to fight through eight stages to get her back.
Pretty much more of the same, except that “Pack attacks” were introduced as a mechanic to do damage all over the screen, and a good reason to have more than one player handy. This was not featured in the NES/Famicom port. Also, all. Six prior bosses made a return, along with two more at the beginning. The first level was also noteworthy for playing a modified version of the song “Ballroom Blitz” by Sweet. And also the toggle feature was on that level if you wound up beating on the music player. In the last two levels, you actually dealt with human enemies as the tale took you into the prison to fight against Doctor Muton again. Unfortunately, this all turned out be a gambit by the mad doctor to arrange an escape from his prison, leading to a case of the heroes having screwed up badly, but getting Alice back for Professor Gene.
Buster Blitz has seen a couple of TV adaptations.
The new-found American popularity of Buster Blitz lead to an American TV pilot for the show. Based loosely on the first game, the executives wanted the project to simply follow the lead of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The pilot's writer had other plans. The script turned out to be an exercise in breaking the fourth wall, snarking over the ridiculous plot and premise, and slipping plenty of questionable humor past the radar in 1989, leading parents to complain. This pilot was the only thing seen for any televised version of Buster Blitz in America.
In 1990, as an immediate follow-through for the second game, Japan saw a tokusatsu (special-effects heavy live action) TV series where the three heroes would fight off a new mutant menace every week. In Japan, this series was well known for being campy compared to other popular shows like Super Sentai and Kamen Rider. The fact that the costumes were very cheap and often less-than-convincing often played into the “so bad it's good” quality of the television series. The series lasted for 30 episodes, with 25 episodes airing on a weekly basis, followed by the last five episodes airing all in one week.
Next: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2065589/
Well, it's been over a year, during which time I lost track of where on my computer the file for this little Infaux collection was. Comments below are intended as a suggestion box.
Anyways, here is part 2 of the Buster Blitz series false information.
Game InfoBuster Blitz II: Muton's Menace
(Arcade: 1990, NES/Famicom: 1991, Sega Genesis: 1993, Super NES/Famicom: 1993)
Muton's Menace marked the return of the Busters approximately two years later when Professor Gene's daughter is now a high school senior. With Daniel, Toby, and Viki now serving as body guards, the game begins when Dr. Muton, operating from his prison, has his mutants crash in and abduct the girl again, leading our mutant canine heroes in a ballroom blitz! Amidst the chaos, Alice was abducted again and they had to fight through eight stages to get her back.
Pretty much more of the same, except that “Pack attacks” were introduced as a mechanic to do damage all over the screen, and a good reason to have more than one player handy. This was not featured in the NES/Famicom port. Also, all. Six prior bosses made a return, along with two more at the beginning. The first level was also noteworthy for playing a modified version of the song “Ballroom Blitz” by Sweet. And also the toggle feature was on that level if you wound up beating on the music player. In the last two levels, you actually dealt with human enemies as the tale took you into the prison to fight against Doctor Muton again. Unfortunately, this all turned out be a gambit by the mad doctor to arrange an escape from his prison, leading to a case of the heroes having screwed up badly, but getting Alice back for Professor Gene.
Buster Blitz: The SeriesBuster Blitz has seen a couple of TV adaptations.
The new-found American popularity of Buster Blitz lead to an American TV pilot for the show. Based loosely on the first game, the executives wanted the project to simply follow the lead of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The pilot's writer had other plans. The script turned out to be an exercise in breaking the fourth wall, snarking over the ridiculous plot and premise, and slipping plenty of questionable humor past the radar in 1989, leading parents to complain. This pilot was the only thing seen for any televised version of Buster Blitz in America.
In 1990, as an immediate follow-through for the second game, Japan saw a tokusatsu (special-effects heavy live action) TV series where the three heroes would fight off a new mutant menace every week. In Japan, this series was well known for being campy compared to other popular shows like Super Sentai and Kamen Rider. The fact that the costumes were very cheap and often less-than-convincing often played into the “so bad it's good” quality of the television series. The series lasted for 30 episodes, with 25 episodes airing on a weekly basis, followed by the last five episodes airing all in one week.
Next: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2065589/
