Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Blast Corps

Blast Corps

This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 23, 2022 by Wehwalt (talk) 18:22, 8 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Blast Corps is a 1997 action video game for the Nintendo 64, in which the player uses vehicles to destroy buildings in the path of a runaway nuclear missile carrier. In the game's 57 levels, the player solves puzzles by moving objects and bridging gaps with the vehicles. Blast Corps was developed at Rare by a small team of recent graduates over the course of a year. They were inspired, in part, by the puzzle elements of Donkey Kong '94. Nintendo published and released Blast Corps to critical acclaim in March 1997 in Japan and North America, with a wider release at the year's end. The game received several editor's choice awards and Metacritic's second highest Nintendo 64 ratings of 1997, but sold below the team's expectations at one million copies. Reviewers praised the game's originality, variety, and graphics, but some critiqued its controls and repetition. Reviewers of the 2015 Rare Replay retrospective compilation noted Blast Corps as a standout title. (Full article...)

Most recent similar article(s): Mischief Makers was the last game on Oct 26
Main editors: czar
Promoted: 2016-06-18; last run on 2017-12-22
Reasons for nomination: This year is the 25th anniversary of its release but had a conflict on its original release date, so using the European release date. There is already another (non-rerun) TFA request on Dec 22, so thought this could go the day before or after (Dec 21 or 23).
Support as nominator. czar 01:15, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support: I do have a quick question. Was the N64 image not used in the blurb because it was recently used in the Mischief Makers blurb? I would understand not wanting to repeat this image out of a concern that it is interpreted as pushing or marketing a specific console or product, but I was just curious. Aoba47 (talk) 04:15, 8 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]