Blasto
Blasto is a 1978 action video game developed and published by Gremlin Industries for arcades. The player controls a spaceship and must maneuver it through a mine field. The player tries to beat the clock to destroy all the mines.
Blasto
- Date
- 1978
- Publisher
- Gremlin Industries
- Genre
- puzzle video game · science fiction video game
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Blasto is a 1978 action video game developed and published by Gremlin Industries for arcades. The player controls a spaceship and must maneuver it through a mine field. The player tries to beat the clock to destroy all the mines.
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Bert Ankrom set the arcade world record on September 8, 2002, with a verified score of 8,730 points. A port for the TI-99/4A home computer was later released by Milton Bradley in early 1981.
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• Title — Blasto • Developer — Gremlin Industries • Publisher — Gremlin Industries • Designer — Lane Hauck • Released — Arcade 1978 TI-99/4A Early 1981 • Platforms — Arcade, TI-99/4A • Genre — Action, puzzle • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer
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