Bomberman '93
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ボンバーマン'93A second PC Engine Bomberman, with traps and computer opponents.
Bomberman '93 is the second Bomberman game on the PC Engine. Hudson Soft made it, and several staff returned from the 1990 original. It keeps the core formula of bombs in a block maze, and it adds new traps and items.
| RELEASED IN JAPAN | 11 December 1992 |
|---|---|
| DEVELOPER AND PUBLISHER | Hudson Soft |
| DIRECTOR | Shigeki Fujiwara |
| GAME DESIGN | Tsukasa Kuwahara |
| MUSIC | Jun Chikuma |
| PLAYERS | One to five |
Bombs explode in a cross shape a few seconds after they are placed. A blast sets off any bomb it touches. The single-player game has seven worlds of eight stages each, and the eighth stage of every world ends in a boss.
Power-ups hide under certain blocks. Bomb kick and line bomb both debut in this game, and later entries kept them.
Traps include warp holes and conveyor belts. Some tiles stop you from placing bombs, and some broken blocks come back.
The battle mode allows up to five players in a timed deathmatch. When a player falls, the items they collected scatter across the arena. In the last minute, pressure blocks close in. Computer opponents can join, and you can pick the stage.
Black Bomberman has stolen seven chips from the central computer of a galactic police bureau. He scattered them across planets in the Magellan system. White Bomberman, a detective called Bomber Cop, sets out to recover them.
Shigeki Fujiwara directed the game, and Tsukasa Kuwahara designed it, as on the first game. Jun Chikuma composed the music.
Electronic Gaming Monthly named it the best TurboGrafx-16 game of 1993. IGN placed it on its 2009 list of the top sixteen TurboGrafx-16 games. Paste ranked it fifth in its 2020 list of the best TurboGrafx-16 games.
Of the console's Bomberman games, this one earns the most praise. It also made single-player battles against computer opponents possible, which was new for the series.
- On the Wii Virtual Console, five players need a GameCube controller. Wii Remotes allow four.
- Bomberman '94 is its direct sequel.
- Some stages link hard blocks together in odd shapes.
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