(I apologize for the blurriness)
Yup, Bomberman started out as a goofy looking guy in overalls and a hat. It wasn't until the third game (After Bomber Man and 3D Bomber Man) that he became the little robot guy we all know and love. Go figure.
What the original Bomberman looked like
(I apologize for the blurriness)
Yup, Bomberman started out as a goofy looking guy in overalls and a hat. It wasn't until the third game (After Bomber Man and 3D Bomber Man) that he became the little robot guy we all know and love. Go figure.
Last edited by blue lander; 07-16-2007 at 02:06 PM.
lol wow. I didn't know that, thanks for posting the pic. It makes me appreciate the look of Bomberman a lot more now!
For someone with such a distinctive look Bomberman sure has had a lot of identity crises over the years.
holy shit! I would've never known.
thats a new one to me too. The thing I love about this site is learning so many new things about vids.
I prefer the look of the new Bomberman as well, but I wish they kept the little feather in his hat. It made him look like a pimp. Now, this game was released in the UK as "Eric and the Floaters" for the Spectrum. A lot of poorly researched websites and magazines call it a "precursor" or "distant ancestor" of Bomberman because it's so different. But it's a direct port of the first game called Bomberman, so it is the first Bomberman.
A few other interesting facts about the original Bomberman:
* No powerups.
* Only the floater enemies, who are actually really smart when they want to be. Mostly they just wander around.
* The points you get for killing floaters or getting treasure are random
* You and enemies can walk through bombs (which takes out 99% of the strategy of the game).
* The level ends when you kill all the enemies, or when you find an exit.
* Bombs do not automatically line up with the bricks. Meaning you can blow up a quarter, a half, or three quarters of a wall (and still can't walk through it)if you don't line it up exactly.
* Every few levels there's an "Auto bomb" level, where Bomberman drops bombs automatically. You drop 4 or 5 bombs in a row, they explode, then you drop 4 or 5 more.
Last edited by blue lander; 07-16-2007 at 07:33 PM.
what is this game for?
That particular one is for the PC-8801 line of computers, but I think there were versions for the PC-6001, FM-7, MSX, X1, and probably the MZ-700 or MZ-2200 as well. Pretty much all of the major Japanese 8 bit computers of the day. It was also released in the UK on the Sinclair Spectrum. There was no console port, and as far as I know all of them came on cassette tape except the MSX version, for which there is a cartridge version (probably a tape version as well). There's a beecard (Precursor to hucard, sort of looks like a TG-16 card) version of Bomberman for the MSX as well, but it's closer to the version that appears on the Famicom/NES.
Last edited by blue lander; 07-16-2007 at 03:17 PM.
Wow, that's awesome. From a guy who looks like he got out of a Zuit-Suit riot to a lovable cartoony character. I wonder who made the decision to change the character.
These cartridges are dirty as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!
No way.
Kaboom is the original Bomberman.
I guess he got out of jail, started dressing like Gilligan, and then became a robot!
What the heck is a toriger?
I think it's their valiant effort at spelling trigger.
Are you sure about that?Originally Posted by blue lander
That can't be right. It's not a gun game, is it?
Perfection in wanted posters. All other criminals can only aspire to such stylishness.
Okay, you lost me. What exactly does this have to do with Bomberman?
That's the unibomber, IIRC. He's a kind of bomberman, I suppose.
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