Sunday, June 26, 2011

Bomberman (NES Game)


Many people know Bomberman on later systems as one of the all-time greatest multi-player games. Bomberman on the NES is a single player game only, but it features the same gameplay as the other versions of the game. Basically you're a a guy fighting...I dunno...99 Luftballons. The balloons will kill you if you touch them, as will the blast from your bomb which projects, barring any obstacles, one square in each direction. It takes good timing to kill your enemies, because once they are more than one square away from your bomb, they are free and clear.

Bomberman is a simple game. The gameplay is simple and easy to pick up, the music is simple yet catchy, and your enemy's patterns are simple and fairly easy to predict. There isn't much variation, but if you enjoy the first level, you'll enjoy the rest of the game. Bomberman is a classic, and a game you should definitely own on some system or another. I would actually recommend later versions of this game, such as the excellent Super Bomberman on the SNES, over the original. That being the case, I can't give Bomberman more than...

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