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A nicely done, if unoriginal, Defender clone.

Graphics: 4 Sound: 4 Replay Value: 2 Notes: 1-player game; Easter Egg Screen Shots

Nova Blast is rather weak as a game. The sounds are pretty cool, and it looks nice. But it's too blatant a Defender rip-off - really one of Imagic's more disappointing games, considering the company it keeps. Once you're decent at it, you can play indefinitely. It seems that Imagic's late entries suffered on originality, or failing that, gameplay (see Fathom). Sometimes, the effort to keep gameplay identical on multiple platforms meant clipping the wings of a game.

A total of two Nova Blast box variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Imagic	710022-1A	1983	U.S.A.	Standard black tray with cardboard backing; DOES NOT have game name and catalog number on top; game title on blue background on spine
	Imagic	710022-2A	1983	U.S.A.	International Edition—text in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch; standard black tray with cardboard backing; DOES NOT have game name and catalog number on top; game title on blue background on spine

A total of three Nova Blast manual variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Imagic	700022-1 Rev. A	1983	U.S.A.
	Imagic	700022-2 Rev. A	1983	U.S.A.	International Edition—instructions in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish, Dutch
Image not available.	Imagic	????	1983	????	German translation in black and white; need part number and other information

A total of two Nova Blast overlay variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Imagic	740022-1A	1983
	Phil Boland	740006-1A PRTD2014	1983		Part of the Imagic Overlays 2.0 Set (2016); NOTE: uses same part number as the Atlantis overlay

A total of two Nova Blast label variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Imagic	720022-1A	1983	U.S.A.	Text label
	Imagic	720022-2A	1983	U.S.A.	International Edition—label text in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch; silver label

	Standard Imagic attract-mode title screen.
	The firing rate on youre ship's cannon is awesome! Smooth scrolling and well-rendered graphics make the game visually appealing.

This wonderful title screen egg brought to you by Wendell Brown.

Credit: Joe Zbiciak

Left Controller: Press and hold: [1]
Right Controller: Press and hold: [1]
Press Reset
Easter Egg: The title screen has a slightly different look:

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