I just remembered while dog walking that there was a Gameboy Bomberman game with Wario?? But only in the west?? Was Wario the player character or the villain? I have no idea, there’s so many bombermysteries
Super Gameboy multiplayer too
it’s just the first bomberman gb game but wario is slapped in there as a playable character. technically he is the bad guy (according to the plot). playing as bomberman makes all the enemies wario clones and vice versa. wario blast also has an exclusive super game boy frame!!
Oh man, there’s a whole world of Gameboy Bumbermen that I know nothing about. I was always curious about the GBC era ones with a cool evil looking sci-fi Bomberman as the variant version
Bomberman rules!! I loved basking in my collection of Bomberman super famicom roms as a teen. Though I could never finish one because of the Gradius-level punishment on death.
Isn’t Bomberman 64 almost a puzzle platformer without jumping? I remember most of the secrets + the postgame purgatory cathedral dungeon being all about creating rube goldberg machines with your bombs
I have to share this Wario Blast post
I did find this post by typing 2630 in the search engine
I loved Mega Bomberman as a kid, but I was only able to rent it from Blockbuster a couple times. The only Bomberman games I actually owned for a while ended up being the weird non-standard ones like 64 and Pocket. I came to love both games, but was disappointed at first that neither of them had the standard grid-based multiplayer battle system. I had to wait until I discovered emulation to properly indulge in those sweet grid battles.
A little disappointed that Mega isn’t in the new collection but I guess it’s not really the Super-Mega Bomberman Collection.
Yeah the secret level involved building bouncy staircases with bombs, and I couldn’t work it out and ended up leaving it for about a year, until I came back and re-played the game and saw that the solution was right there in the end credits. Turned out to be super simple, but kind of unintuitively relied on not pressing a direction when bouncing on the bombs.
if i remember right, mega, super 3, and 94 are all mostly the same game?
I think Mega and 94 are the same, but with different music in some places. Super 3 is different, but I guess most of the 90s 16bit Bomberman games were basically the same anyway.
I think Mega/94 and Super 3 were when they introduced the ‘Louies’, which I suspect was supposed to be ‘Rooie’ since they are, y’know, kangaroos. I remember the pink one in Mega had the special ability to dance, and the instruction manual implied that there was some secret effect of that, but I never worked out what it did besides look funny
I should’ve brought Saturn Bomberman to the last meetup.
Some day someone out there better get a hold of Hi-Ten Bomberman
The first HD game ever made.
Getting to play Saturn Bomberman with a full contingent of players is such a cool experience.
the closest i’ve got is an eight player game of bomberman ds
I think Saturn Bomberman Fight!! is a visually beautiful and special looking videogame. I’ve never really played it more than a few mintues, though.
Perhaps now is the time, though, as we all renew our focus and commitment to the bomber man: apparently a team of dedicated individuals has translated the game into english. A year or two ago? What a world to live in.
I didn’t even know that was a thing!
and you only needed one copy of the game!
i love Bomberman…!!! a couple years ago i played through a bunch of Bombermans i’ll be cheap and just relink/reuse/recycle the post i made about them cuz it covers a lot of my essential Bombermanlove
im right there with u Persona on drawing lots of Bombermans next to my Sonics as a kid, and appreciating how much simpler a design Bomberman is for kid-drawing
Im also glad Mozhra brought up that Bomberman 64 has a comparably great soundtrack to Bomberman Hero it is not quite as unique as BH’s funky breakbeat but it’s still low-key one of the richest and catchiest N64 soundtracks. this one always gets me, just listen to the fuckin dynamics building it up at the beginning there
BM64 has to be the strongest single player Bomberman campaign (with unfortunately a kinda commensurately weak multiplayer for a B-man game, though i still had a blast hahahha playing it with my brother & friends as a kid. cuz Nintendo 64 didn’t need no fuckin multitap)
Woah Super Bomberman 1 has the most grating walking SFX of all time and it ruins the whole game! Anyone knows if that’s an emulation issue? I can’t imagine Hudson leaving this in