What was peak Bomberman to you?

[Nessus]

For me personally the 2 best ones (that I've played) are the SNES one with the Multitap and the DS one.

The DS one in particular is great. You can play 8 player games with just a single cartridge (easily one of my favorite features of the DS).

One of the battle modes uses the DS microphone to detonate bombs, which can get amazingly chaotic with 8 players in close proximity; other players' shouts can detonate your bombs, so it leads to strategies like trying to get farther apart from one another or trying to cover the mic on your DS.

Bomberman DS and Tetris DS (which can do 10 players off of a single cart) are 2 of my all time favorite multiplayer games.

I wish it were possible to play Hi-Ten Bomberman somehow on a modern HD screen, and I'd like to get Saturn Bomberman and all the necessary controllers and adapters one day.

 

[Ferrs]

Saturn for sure.

 

[Aether]

I was young, but I remember it being a pretty exciting, mystical experience. A different experience from most Bomberman for sure. I'd say it's worth playing!

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by the youtube longplay i found its a level bades adventure, the cover let me to expect something different.

Would still play if it was on GB Online on the switch...

 

[Gnorman]

Saturn Bomberman

 

[Ogni-XR21]

Saturn Bomberman.

The N64 version was good, but nowhere near peak bomberman.

 

[srtrestre]

Either Super Bomberman or the N64 ones

this cover is burned into my brain from magazines back then (next to Zelda DX and Mario DX), but i still havent played it. worth it?

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Me too. I have never played it, but that cover art is etched into my mind. Prob b/c of gaming magazines.

 

[Deleted member 39744]

I loved bomberman generation on gamecube because there was a mode with falling bombs from the sky that you had to evade, called the "bombs away" mode, and the music was great

 

[Robochimp]

Super Bomberman with the multi tap has never been matched for me.

 

[Vandova]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one that really enjoyed Bomberman Generation, that game was a lot of fun! I wish I hadn't sold it. :(

 

[TreIII]

For singleplayer, it's gotta be 64. Saturn for mp.

But I'll even give some honorable mentions to Super Bomberman 3-5 and the last few DS games, as they were all just so fun.

 

[Panda Andino]

Bomberman Max 2 GBA and the ost was amazing

 

[Nocturnowl]

I loved bomberman generation on gamecube because there was a mode with falling bombs from the sky that you had to evade, called the "bombs away" mode, and the music was great

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Dodge Battle was the shit, I think we played that in multiplayer more than the standard mode

 

[Giga Man]

Bomberman 64 and the GameCube games (Generation and Jetters). Bomberman 64 had the best and funniest battle mode.

I really wish there was a new Bomberman adventure game.

I loved bomberman generation on gamecube because there was a mode with falling bombs from the sky that you had to evade, called the "bombs away" mode, and the music was great

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The mode was super fun, even when watching COM players.

 

[Deleted member 8752]

and don't forget this, where you had to daisy chain two of them to play 8 players.

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The n64 one was the one I liked most, but in hindsight it's definitely this.

 

[Quinton]

The ones that aren't Act Zero

 

[MrNewVegas]

As a Smash char

 

[Dancrane212]

Saturn Bomberman

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Another case of the first post nailing it. Brought my Saturn Bomberman setup to a convention a while back and it was wonderful to see the 8 player setup getting some love.

 

[flashman92]

All this love for Saturn Bomberman but no love for Bomberman Fight?

 

[Wari Oman]

That one Game Boy game that was like a mixture of Bomberman and Crazy Castle series

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[Wil Grieve]

For me, Bomberman 64: The Second Attack (because co-op) and Bomberman Hero were the peak

 

[Cokomon]

Peak Bomberman was the Super Nintendo era, before better multiplayer games came out during the N64 era onward.

 

[Legacy]

Mega Bomberman was the one i loved the most

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Yes, this

 

[Deleted member 34949]

This thread is reminding how little Bomberman games missed when it came to wild ass alternate game modes.

As someone mentioned, Pocket Bomberman is a pretty neat Crazy Castle esque platformer (with a surprisingly catchy OST), but the real good shit was jump mode.

 

[Bingle Bango]

Bomberman: Party Edition on PS1 was the one I had that I would play with friends growing up. That game was perfection.

 

[point decay]

whichever one was on the SNES (I think it was 2? )

 

[MrBob]

Atomic Bomberman on PC. Remember playing it online a bit.



Always wanted to play Saturn Bomberman though.

 

[djplaeskool]

Mega Bomberman was the one I played the most.
Though I will say that I did have some fun times with friends with Bomberman Jetters.

 

[Craig Majaski]

The two I played the most were Super Bomberman on SNES and Saturn Bomberman, which is my personal favorite. It has a wide range of stages and the addition of rideable dinos make it an amazingly addictive multiplayer game. You can also 2 player co-op the campaign.

 

[Perzeval]

 

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[Don Fluffles]

Super Bomberman R on Switch/Steam/PS4/Xbox One, that after like 3 years of support, updates and patches, is an incredibly attempt at bringing back Bomberman with a very familiar but unique feel. I non ironically loved the very Saturday morning cartoon cutscenes and how much... personality they put into all the Bomberpeople.



I'm also currently playing R Online myself, lol.

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Give us a Saturn Bomberman remake in this style already, Konami, you cowards!

 

[Dead Man Typing]

Saturn Bomberman is so pure.

8 or 10 player multiplayer.
Single player Master Mode challenge rooms.
Single or 2 player co-op campaign.

Features, arenas and power ups were just a refinement of all of Bomberman's best qualities. No game has come close since.

Mega Bomberman was also great. Known as Bomberman '94 on the turbo graphics.

 

[Firima]

I was actually thinking about this yesterday in light of another thread about Bomberman Hero.

64 was absolutely peak Bomberman in its original style, and Hero was meant to be the game (and style) featuring the direction that the future of the series was intended to take, though adventure mode certainly was a big departure from the older style.

 

[Rodney McKay]

My favorite Bomberman game overall is Bomberman Tournament for the GBA.

Fantastic game that's is basically a 2D Zelda for the single player but with Bomberman gameplay. It has a fun pokemon style monster collection mechanic, the different monsters give you different abilities, like being able to remote detonate your bombs and stuff like that.

My favorite multiplayer Bomberman experience was probably Bomberman 64.
Thats when I was going over to friends houses the most and had the most fun doing local multiplayer. Loved the ability to "pump up" the bombs and make them bigger, and when you died you could become a ghost and possess people to mess them up or throw bombs from the sidelines to try and kill the remaining players.

 

[Shiny Man]

Anyone who says otherwise is objectively wrong.

 

[Jimnymebob]

Bomberman for the PS1 is the best if you just want a traditional Bomberman multiplayer experience.

 

[xir]

honestly? reading about saturn BM in egm

 

[Diddy Kong]

Bomberman 64 & Hero.

 

[OneThirtyEight]

Only played the one on Mega Drive....so that one.

 

[Big_Erk]

Saturn Bomberman

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[NHarmonic.]

Bomberman: Party Edition on PS1 was the one I had that I would play with friends growing up. That game was perfection.

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Same. The amount of characters, powers, the animals, and the maps… amazing stuff.

 

[Dr. Alu]

Atomic Bomberman on PC. Remember playing it online a bit.



Always wanted to play Saturn Bomberman though.

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This one right here. It's the only bomberman i played, but i remember playing it with my friends for month if not years every friday. Two on the keyboard, two on gamepads, one on a joystick and I even won one round playing with a steering wheel. What madness.
The soundtrack and the voices where awesome.
Great game with friends, not so great with bots.

 

[SapientWolf]

I expected Saturn Bomberman to dominate, but Bomberman Online for the Dreamcast deserves some love because it is still has one of the most full featured multiplayer modes of the 3D Bomberman era.

Also, if you like Bomberman, give Invisigun Heroes a shot. I think it has a higher skill ceiling.

 

[Nucarn]

Anyone who says otherwise is objectively wrong.

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Was gonna mention this one! Loved this as a kid

 

[Woylie]

I'm kinda surprised there's so little affection for the GC Bomberman games, Generations and Jetters. Jetters specifically was made to go along with an anime that I think never came out in the west, so I guess it makes sense that it's a bit forgotten. Both of those games were my first Bomberman experiences, sort of an adventure/action game based on the oldschool Bomberman formula with a bit of DNA from the N64 games. I also loved the Charaboms even if they were shameless Pokemon ripoffs.

I think maybe the real answer is whichever Bomberman you grew up with, lol.

 

[broncobuster]

Bomberman 64 is where I'm most nostalgic, which is weird because it's an aberration for the series. Really dug the single player mode and the free form battle arena multiplayer.

For classic bomberman, probably 94 or Saturn.

 

[spman2099]

Easily the Saturn era.

 

[Michilin]

Bomberman Tournament was amazing, the gameplay integrated really well with the overworld, the bases had nice gimmicks and the boss battles were cool.

I'm nostalgic because it was the first game in English that had some dependency on dialog that me and my brother played, dozens of hours with a big ass dictionary by our side to translate everything.

 

[o Tesseract]

64 and Second Attack will always have a special place in my heart. Second Attack especially had some pretty creative levels and uses of the different bomb types.

 

[Chucker]

In order for me it was Super Bomberman 2, then somebody around me had the import of 5, and then Saturn.