Reading Blaster: Invasion of the Word Snatchers

Reading Blaster: Invasion of the Word Snatchers is the first entry in the Reading Blaster series, following the success of the Math Blaster games.

Unused Graphics#

A sprite sheet depicting animations of Blasternaut moving the colored buttons and controlling a joystick from the Word Zapper level. This was shown in a prerelease screenshot on the game's box.

Blasternaut's sprite sheet for the Sequence Shocker level shows some unused animations, specifically ones that depict him pressing the 'Reset' and 'Done' buttons and also some that show him looking to the right.

A "Try Again" screen, the dimensions of which suggest it would have appeared on the top-right screen.

Unused Enemies#

The Plate Patrol level has two unused enemies: the Dragon Snake from the cutscenes and the Squid. Despite this, both characters still have in-game profiles.


There is also unused text indicating that they won't appear:

This retired Space Patrol Commander does not issue points anymore.
Dragon Snake lives in the sewers where he can't bother your score.
Illitera send this spying snake to watch your move.
This tentacled creature shows up just in time for The Late Show.
Squid is lost in deep space.
Squid missed the space shuttle.