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Math Blaster ages 9-12 is a Math Blaster game. While it's loosely a remake of Math Blaster 2: The Lost City, this game is a separate story that simply follows similar themes to the original and in fact is set after the original games, as a sequel. In this respect it followed the same pattern as Mega Math Blaster, which was loosely a remake of Math Blaster Episode 1: In Search of Spot. It was released on October 30, 1997.
- Abnormal Ammo: Given the monkey theme, it's no surprise that you use bananas as weapons. The hostile portraits in one of the bonus levels use coconuts.
- And I'm the Queen of Sheba: After it's revealed that the Terrible Monkey King isn't so terrible:GC: Who are you?
Monkey: Well... I'm, uh... I'm the Terrible Monkey King.
Blasternaut: And I'm a monkey's uncle! - Conveyor Belt o' Doom: One of the bonus levels is set on a non-hazardous one. If you fall off, it just cuts the level short and sends you to the next puzzle.
- Delayed Safety Feature: In the intro, the Blasterpals crash-land their ship on a seemingly barren planet and only when they come to a complete stop does the severe impact avoidance inflatable device deploy, filling the entire ship and then expanding out of the airlock when they exit.
- Escort Mission: The bridge levels alternate between building the actual bridges and puzzles where you need to guide several hopping monkeys across floating platforms. Fortunately, you only need to keep them from falling.
- Expospeak Gag: The ship computer refers to the air bag as a "severe-impact-avoidance inflatable device".
- Failed a Spot Check: The Blasterpals miss an alert that they're about to crash into a planet because they're partying.
- Fantasy World Map: There's a map of the entire crater that you can use to track your progress through the game, featuring landmarks visible in the background of each area.
- Humongous Mecha: The Terrible Monkey King uses one as a disguise.
- Hurricane of Puns: The ending of Math Blaster Ages 9-12. Lampshaded with the line "Enough with the monkey jokes already! Stop!"
- Jungle Japes: Much of Math Blaster Ages 9-12 takes place in an inexplicably lush crater on a barren planet, with about half of the game being in various jungle regions.
- Large Ham: The old guy and the Terrible Monkey King.
- Nerd Glasses: The Terrible Monkey King has these to complete his decidedly unimposing figure.
- Shout-Out: The ending and enemies from Math Blaster Ages 9-12 are a reference to The Wizard of Oz.
- The Trees Have Faces: The first two bonus levels take place in forests with trees that have spooky faces on them. Said trees can also appear in the background of the bridge-building puzzle depending on the route you take during your journey.
- Vertebrate with Extra Limbs: The flying monkeys.
- Video Game Remake: Math Blaster Ages 9-12 is a remake of Math Blaster: Secret of the Lost City that implements the puzzles differently.
Math Blaster Ages 9-12 features the math team of GC Max and Spot, who have recently crash landed on a mysterious planet, and are perched at the rim of a forbidding crater. Your journey into the crater begins your quest.
Owned by Knowledge Adventure and published under their educational media franchise, JumpStart, the Math Blaster series began in 1983 with the educational computer game Math Blaster! In the earliest games, players follow protagonist Blasternautlater renamed Blasterhis sidekick Spot, and their robot companion Galactic Commander in order to play interactive, space-themed math games and puzzles. The series originally focused solely on mathematics, but it later expanded to include other subjects such as language arts and science. Knowledge Adventure published spin-offs for these subjects, beginning with Reading Blaster in 1994. As the games evolved over time and graphics improved, the main characters changed appearances several times and Blaster's universe changed as well. Beginning in October 2005, Knowledge Adventure began a new plotline set in the year 8296, in which Earth is controlled by computers and humans have completely forgotten how to do simple math because of their reliance on technology. The players follow Blaster on a quest to restore the humans' knowledge and put a stop to a controlling computer named Cyclotron X. In a few of the Blaster games, the main character is a green creature named Rave who must stop a mad scientist known as Dr. Dabble. These particular characters were introduced in Math Blaster Mystery: The Great Brain Robbery. Players can find the Blaster games online, on handhelds such as the Nintendo DS, on consoles such as the Nintendo Wii, and as applications on mobile devices. Targeted to children from ages three through 12, these games combine specific lessons with arcade-style gameplay designed to reinforce topics. Many parents and teachers use these games as educational supplements, and in 2006, the game Math Blaster: Mastering the Basics won a National Parenting Center Seal of Approval.
The Blaster games that had FMV cutscenes (Mega Math Blaster, Math Blaster Ages 9-12, etc.) always used QuickTime for their Mac versions. The Windows versions used Video for Windows instead at first, using the same AVI files for both platforms. The 1999 "For 3rd Grade" release of Mega Math Blaster not only fixed the Y2K bug, but also moved to QuickTime 3 for the Windows version. Post-2000 releases of Ages 9-12 moved to QuickTime 5.
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