🤖 Blaster Nova
An original action platformer in the classic robot-master tradition, on our Arcade shelf. Nova, a little robot hero with a star for a heart, runs, jumps and blasts through the stages of four Machine Lords — the Forge, the Tide, the Volt and the Frost. Beat a lord and his weapon becomes yours, and every weapon is another lord's worst day. Clear all four and the gates of Dr. Umbra's Sky Fortress swing open. Hold fire to charge, grab checkpoints, and mind the disappearing blocks.
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Weapon Nova Buster
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How to play — Nova's exact rules
- Move & jump: on a phone, hold the left pad to run, tap JUMP and FIRE on the right; small ▲▼ buttons appear beside ladders. On a keyboard: ← → or A D run, ↑ ↓ or W S climb, X / K / Space jumps, Z / J fires, C swaps weapon, P pauses. Let go of jump early for a short hop; Nova forgives the edge — a step past the lip still jumps.
- Charge shot: hold FIRE and Nova glows — a short hold fires a medium bolt, a full hold a big piercing bolt that smashes straight through shield bots' guards. Plain taps are fast and light. Releasing on a ladder or mid-air works too.
- The weakness ring: each lord you beat hands you his weapon. Forge Flare melts the Frost Lord, Frost Shards short the Volt Lord, the Volt Arc dances across the Tide Lord's water, and the Tide Trident douses the Forge Lord. A weakness hit deals triple damage — but every stage is beatable with the plain Nova Buster if you'd rather earn it the hard way.
- Getting hurt: Nova has an energy meter. Enemy shots sting, bodies sting more, lava and spike pits are the end of that life. Fallen robots drop energy capsules — grab them. Checkpoint flags turn gold as you pass; that's where you wake up, energy full, with five lives per stage attempt.
- Stage hazards, honestly: disappearing blocks blink before they go — the rhythm is always the same, never a trick. Electric floors in the Surge Plant glow a warning before they zap. Ice in the Glacier Works is slippery for Nova and for the Frost Lord. Dam currents push — jump with the flow, not against it.
- The Fortress: clear all four lords and Sky Fortress I opens — a gauntlet of everything at once, guarded by the Warden. Clear that and Dr. Umbra himself is waiting in Fortress II, and he does not fight fair. Your stage wins, weapons, best times and score are saved on this device.
Pick a Machine Lord below to start.
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