Mega Math Blaster is an Edutainment Game in the Blaster Series.
Teaching basic arithmetic, it originally came with a recommended age range of six to twelve. It was subsequently retitled Math Blaster: Ages 6-9 and then Math Blaster for 3rd Grade. And yes, each retitle narrowed the supposed age range, all without the game's educational content ever changing.
The game is a remake of Math Blaster: In Search of Spot, which in turn makes it the fourth remake of the original Math Blaster. The plot involves Spot getting kidnapped by the slime monster Gelator, who is basically an upgraded version of the Trash Alien.
As in the previous version, you play Blasternaut on his mission to rescue Spot.
This game provides examples of:
- Abnormal Ammo: Mega Math Blaster has you throw banana peels, clothespins, and pacifiers at enemies.
- Asteroid Thicket: The normal and "good" endings show Blasternaut and G.C. chasing Gelator through one of these. The game is also bookended by you blasting your way through it in pursuit of said villain.
- Blob Monster: Gelator is a slime monster. One of the endings also has his parents.
- Cobweb Trampoline: The second jungle level ends on one of these, followed by a kissing troll swooping in and carrying Blasternaut up to the exit.
- Continuity Nod: In the introduction, Spot flies past the prison planet Lock-Em-Up, where the previous games' villains Trash Alien, Illitera, and Dr. Minus are imprisoned.
- Convection, Schmonvection: Mega Math Blaster has both lava and fire-breathing statues in an ice cave.
- Expy: Gelator is a yellow alien with three eyes that abducts Spot... exactly like the Trash Alien. In fact, this entire game is a rehash of In Search of Spot.
- Fungus Humongous: One of the bonus levels has these as platforms and an entire mushroom forest as a background.
- Gameplay and Story Integration: On hard mode, the cave runner puzzle takes you right up to the door of the generator room for the next puzzle.
- Hailfire Peaks: The second and third ice cave levels feature lava pits, with the latter also having fire-breathing ice sculptures as platforms.
- Herr Doktor: Blasternaut has a "wrist analyzer", which is referred to as "Freud" and speaks with a German accent.
- Jet Pack: Blasternaut gets one partway through the first ice cave level, allowing him to fly over gaps and punch the foot trolls instead of tripping them up.
- Jungle Japes: Mega Math Blaster has a varying number of these depending on the difficulty. On hard mode, there are two of these followed by an Underground Level.
- Liquid Assets: Gelator drains Spot's intelligence.
- Multiple Endings: Determined by how many bonus objects you found in the game.
- Power Crystal: Each of the first three puzzles end with finding one.
- Ruins for Ruins' Sake: Mega Math Blaster has up to three of these levels depending on the difficulty.
- Taken for Granite: One ending has Blasternaut petrify Gelator during a Western=style showdown, after which the latter crumbles to dust.
- Underground Level: Mega Math Blaster has up to three ice cave levels depending on the difficulty. Hard mode also adds one after the two jungle levels.
- Video Game Remake: As noted above, this is a remake of Math Blaster: In Search of Spot, which was itself the latest in a series of remakes.
- X-Ray Sparks: Getting slimed by the drones in the second puzzle results in this.
