Play Math Blaster - Episode One Online

Game Overview

Math Blaster on SNES is way more entertaining than a math game has any right to be. You're blasting space junk with equations floating around, trying to rescue your buddy from this smug little yellow alien. The whole thing feels like someone took homework and turned it into a weirdly addictive arcade shooter.

First part has you flying through space shooting numbered debris - you've gotta hit the right one to complete equations at the bottom of the screen. Then suddenly you're platforming through caves, adjusting your number by grabbing + and - water drops to squeeze between numbered gates. The final showdown with that obnoxious alien involves diving into numbered hatches to solve equations mid-battle. It's ridiculous, but in that perfect early 90s edutainment way where they clearly just wanted to make a game and slapped some math problems on it.

Honestly? I'd take this over most "serious" educational games any day. The whole thing wraps up in about 20 minutes, but it's a weird little time capsule that somehow makes algebra feel like an action movie.