[2] It would be revised and ported to newer hardware and operating systems, with enhanced versions rebranded as Math Blaster Plus!

A series of mathematics problems appear on the screen, and the player must move to fire the cannon pointing at the correct answer.

[3] Math Blaster was designed to aid students to master first-to-sixth-grade mathematics in an exciting and interesting manner.

[1] By November 2, 1985, the game had sustained 92 weeks on the Billboard charts for Top Education Computing Software, and was placed at #2.

[5] New Math Blaster Plus was reviewed in the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Guide Book where it was praised for its "arcade-quality graphics [making] drills snappy and entertaining".