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Instruction booklet · February 1993

Sonic Blast Man

Hack and slash/Beat 'em up1 playerPre-ESRB

The story

Sonic Blast Man is a beat'em up based on the arcade classic. In this version Sonic Blast Man must save the Earth from diverse kinds of evil forces, from street gangs and terrorists, to aliens and robots and finally, an evil clone of himself under the name of "Heavy Blast Man". The fight starts on a construction site in Earth and ends up in outer space.

Specifications

Released
February 1993
Developers
I.T.L, Zuntata
Publisher
Taito
Players
1
Genre
Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Rating
Pre-ESRB
Series
Sonic Blast Man
Themes
Action
View
Side view

What the magazines said

EGM · not on record yet

Players
70/100 (5 ratings)
GameRankings
72%
BE KIND, REWINDFebruary 1993
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Feb. 6

Former tennis player Arthur Ashe, 49, dies of complications due to HIV in New York. Ashe was believed to have contracted the virus from a blood transfusion during a heart surgery ten years earlier.

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