Alien Fiends Beware -- Blasto Has Arrived; Highly-Anticipated Title Pushes PlayStation Development to its Limits and Delivers Unparalleled 3D Gaming Experience.FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 1998--Sony Computer Entertainment America made the universe a much safer place today with the release of Blasto(TM), the innovative videogame developed exclusively for the PlayStation(R) game console See video game console. by Sony Interactive Studios America. The character-driven 3D action/platform videogame, created in the tone of 1940s big-studio cartoon features, combines the best elements of platform, action and shooter games. Blasto boasts huge, free-roaming 3D environments and nonlinear gameplay (with no "levels" to break the flow of the action), complemented by amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. graphics and colorful animation. Blasto stars Sony Interactive Studios America's first originally-created superhero su·per·he·ro n. pl. su·per·he·roes A figure, especially in a comic strip or cartoon, endowed with superhuman powers and usually portrayed as fighting evil or crime. , the pompous and always humorous Captain Blasto, who comes to life with the voice of character actor Phil Hartman Phil Hartman (born as Philip Edward Hartmann) (September 24, 1948 – May 28, 1998) was a Canadian-American Emmy Award-winning actor, voice artist, comedian, graphic artist, a writer, the idea man for Blasto. . With aliens to exterminate, puzzles to solve and gigantic monsters to run screaming from, the player is forced to negotiate tricky paths through six diverse environments, solving puzzles and fighting enemies at every turn. The ultimate aim? To find the evil Bosc(TM) and put an end to his nefarious schemes. "Blasto is a shining example of the caliber of PlayStation games List of Playstation games can refer to:
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Blasto is proof positive that the PlayStation game console possesses the strengths and depths that developers are just now beginning to utilize. Blasto breaks out of the idea of levels, with the entire game constantly streaming from the CD, effectively becoming one gigantic world with multiple "episodes." PlayStation software breakthroughs such as environment mapping, dynamically lit characters and backgrounds, and fully interactive music continues to deliver innovative games that raise the popularity of the PlayStation game console to new heights. So, just who is Captain Blasto? At the moment, he's the only hope the human race has for survival. He's big, he's strong, he's pompous and he loves to fry aliens. Blasto is just what the world needs -- a global patriot who wants nothing more than to rid the universe of every last slimy green alien. He believes that the ends certainly justify the means, especially if the means include zapping as many evil mutant clones as he possibly can. Blasto is Earth's only chance against Bosc and his army of twisted Pear Troopers Troopers in the United States civilian police forces usually refer to members of state highway patrols, state patrols, or state police agenciess. . Sony Computer Entertainment America, a division of Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc., markets and distributes the PlayStation game console in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , develops and publishes software for the PlayStation game console, and manages the U.S. third party licensing program. Based in Foster City, Calif., Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. -0- Visit us on the Web at http://www.playstation.com CONTACT: Sony Computer Entertainment, Foster City Molly Smith Molly Smith is the artistic director of Arena Stage in Washington D.C.. She has been a focused on new play development for the past 30 years while at Arena Stage as well as Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska, the theater she founded and led for 19 years[1]. , 650/655-6044 molly_smith@playstation.sony.com or Kirsten Merit, 650/655-5538 kirsten_merit@playstation.sony.com |
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