BOMBERMAN FANTASY RACE REMAKE SERIES

In 2004, this version of Bomberman was re-released for the Game Boy Advance as part of the Famicom Mini series in Japan and the Classic NES Series in North America and Europe. The game was also released on Game Boy as a 'Game B' mode of the game Atomic Punk. Bomberman's appearance in this game (Hudson Soft re-used an enemy graphic taken from their own 1984 NES/Famicom port of Broderbund's Lode Runner) is an early version of Bomberman's more famous design, a robotic anime-like character with a pink antenna. 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. Enhanced ports and re-releasesД«omberman is most known for the NES/Famicom version released in Japan on Decemand in North America in 1987. ДЄccording to Zero magazine, Bomberman adopted gameplay elements from the Coreland/ Sega arcade hit Pengo (1982). The Famicom version was developed (ported) by Shinichi Nakamoto, who reputedly completed the task alone over a 72 hour period. 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.Д«omberman 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. If you're a fan of Bomberman or Mario Kart, it's worth renting, but it's a little too short, and the tracks are a little too simple to warrant a more long-term relationship.In the NES/Famicom release, the eponymous character, Bomberman, is a robot that must find his way through a maze while avoiding enemies. Altogether, the game's not very long, very good, or very bad - which at least wins it the dubious distinction of being the best Bomberman game on the PlayStation to date.

The music in BFR alternates between sounding like a speeded-up tape and an imported electronic toy - ultimately, these sounds earn the game points for quirkiness. The graphics are a bit plain for this generation of PlayStation games, and pop-up and build are an issue, of course, but it's not a horrible-looking game. In the two-player split-screen mode, you can make a bet and race against a friend. Make enough, and you can buy extra power-ups, better Tiras and Louies, and gain entrance into the next race. If you come in first, second, or third, you'll get cash. Using a feature available in a number of Japan-only horseracing video games, you can make your mount sprint ahead for short distances until it tires. (Just about everything is here, from power bombs to triple bombs plus, there are a few new items as well). In the single-player mode, you race against four opponents, drop or throw bombs at them, and use power-ups found along the way. The bomb-chucking star of Hudson's genre-defying series and several of his friends have saddled up on Tiras (the worried-looking hippo-dinosaur hybrids) and Louies (the excitable kangaroo creatures introduced several games back), and they are competing in races for money and fame. Since Bomberman has long been known to play with fire and explosives, it was really just a matter of time before he added the track to his long list of vices. It hit Mega Man in the Japanese release Rockman: Battle & Chase and Square's cutesy-cutesy Chocobo in Chocobo Racing. The undeniable urge to race has struck many a platform- and puzzle-game hero.

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