Blaster retrospective

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Every week or two I find myself wishing that Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar had made a sequel to Robotron 2084. Every year or so I remember that they actually did. Well, sort of.
After that, I have to lug the noble black plastic hulk of the original Xbox out of storage to discover whether this sort-of sequel is as weird as I remember it being. This brings us up to date. Up to date with yesterday, anyway, when I sat down with a pile of old cables, a dusty crate of superseded consoles, and Midway Arcade Classics - a gem of a compilation which, infuriatingly, never made the backwards compatible list for the 360.
The game I headed straight for was Blaster, Vid Kidz' third - and final - release, and an arcade adventure that starts with the goose-pimpling sentence: "The year is 2085."
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