Talk:Blaster Learning System

Box at bottom
Is it necessary to go over waht the box says at the bottom of the article, there?

Math Blaster vs. Blaster Learning System
There doesn't really seem to be a "system." We've all played this as kids. Why isn't it just called "Math Blaster"?

I think this should be 'math blaster' for the same reason as the above petition.


 * Why isn't it just called "Math Blaster"?
 * Because half of the series is called "Reading Blaster" and the series as a whole has been advertised as "the Blaster Learning System." 67.171.163.212 22:04, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * At some point it was advertised as such for marketing reasons, but that was a temporary selling point, not so much an ongoing strategy what it as a whole is. Also, no....Reading Blaster was *NOT* half of the series. There were far more math products and sequels, and the reading line has much fewer products. Davidson/KA tended to branch into other lines for those (Grammar for the Real World, Headline Harry, etc.)

Remake?
I played Math Blaster Ep1, Ep2, and Mega as a kid and fondly remember them. I can tell you that Mega Math Blaster is NOT a remake of the original. It has a few similar elements here and there, but there is a totally different story (including a new antagonist) and lots of different gameplay. Being that many sequels in games use old gameplay elements, I'm going to have to call it a sequel NOT a remake.

Endlessmug 03:35, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Remake !!
Mega Math Blaster is definitely a remake of Ep1. It has similar elements because it's the same basic thing, and a different story because otherwise it's an update, not a remake. A sequel continues the story. The remake retells it. I was working in the Torrance building in QA and I saw what they were doing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.225.12.19 (talk) 09:16, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Brian Reynolds - Not Brian Reynolds
The Brian Reynolds referenced in this article is *NOT* the same Brian Reynolds linked to in the page. The artist Brian Reynolds was an artist at Knowledge Adventure during the same time he would have been designing games for other companies.

The Knowledge Adventure Brian Reynolds is a talented artist who did a lot of fun art. However, he did not design Civilization II.

Blitz Games? No.
Why is Blitz Games being listed as a developer for this series (which, by the way was not a system, but that's not an argument worth having now).

Unless a title can be produced showing the contrary, Blitz didn't work with Knowledge Adventure until Barbie Horse Adventure for PS2 and Xbox (if you want to blame someone for that).

Most of the development for actual Blaster Titles was (and still is) done internally, outside of certain special projects. The first console titles were done by Western Technologies, and even the Math Blaster DS game was done by KA's own team.

Blitz' inclusion is inaccurate...please show reference otherwise this needs to be changed.