Hudson Soft's director of research and development, Shinichi Nakamoto, commented in a 1995 interview that 'I personally believe that the Famicom version of Bomberman is the one and only version of the game.' This version was ported back to the MSX the following year as Bomberman Special. The Famicom version was developed (ported) by Shinichi Nakamoto, who reputedly completed the task alone over a 72 hour period.īomberman is most known for the NES/Famicom version released in Japan on Decemand in North America in 1987. This very basic version of the game was given a small-scale release for Japanese PCs in 1983 and the European PCs the following year. The original home computer games are more basic and have some different rules.īomberman was written in 1980 to serve as a tech demo for Hudson Soft's BASIC compiler. Bomberman will turn human when he escapes and reaches the surface. There are items that can help improve Bomberman's bombs, such as the Fire ability, which improves the blast range of his bombs. Doors leading to further maze rooms are found under rocks, which Bomberman must destroy with bombs. In the Famicom/NES release, the eponymous character, Bomberman, is a robot that must find his way through a maze while avoiding enemies. The earlier game Warp & Warp by Namco is most likely the inspiration for the Bomberman gameplay. It spawned the long-running series with many installments building on its basic gameplay. In 1985, Bomberman was released for the Family Computer. It had a Japanese sequel known as 3-D Bomberman, in which Bomberman navigates the maze in the first-person. The original home computer game Bomber Man was released in 1983 for the MSX, NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-6001, Sharp MZ-700 and FM-7 in Japan, and for the MSX and ZX Spectrum in Europe (in the UK as Eric and the Floaters, and in Spain as Don Pepe Y Los Globos). We are working on the others.īomberman is an arcade-style maze-based video game developed by Hudson Soft. This game can be played also in a version for SG-1000. The following emulators are available for this game: NeptunJS (JavaScript), Nesbox (Flash), RetroGames (JS) and vNES (Java).

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