Pasta Master (or Paster Master) is a freeware arena shooter created by Jacob Waldemar Buczynski, where players get to take on demons, octopuses, bugs, teacups, fruits, vegetables, purple shrooms, and even Daleks in this zany adventure into the heart of the netherworld.
"Here is the true story behind Pasta Master. I was laying in bed and I thought to myself 'I will release a game today', so I decided to make a game in one night. The idea I had at the time was a game called 'bug eater'. In this game there would be a picture, and if you clicked on it a short avi of me eating some roaches and beetles would play.
I thought it was a great idea so I got to work drawing the picture. By the morning I had changed my mind about the game, and the new game would be somewhat different.
There would be 10 different meals you could purchase with limited funds, and each meal would be more expensive. The meals would be minigames involving giant bugs, eating bugs, etc. Completing the levels would earn the player money.
The player could not die, but if you ran out of money then you could enter the ceiling and complete a difficult maze. This would earn you cheapest meal/minigame. You could also enter a mouse hole and metamorphose into a mouse, you could also walk outside, enter a car and play a minigame involving driving. The aim would be to save enough to play the most expensive minigame and complete it successfully.
The final Pasta Master was actually cut back quite a bit. It was too big with all the levels so I just kept the best bits." - Jinxtengu
Name: Pasta Master
Developer: Jinxtengu
Platform: Windows
Size: 6.53 MB
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