I did hear it only took Hudson 48 hours to develop the original Famicom version too! But, it must be a tiny ROM for the FDS, it's one of the main staples you always find on Famiclone multi-carts!
The story goes it was 72 hours, but the only source for this story is a journalist named Hisakazu Hirabayashi who wrote it in his blog in 2011 and then also mentioned it in a Kotaku article
Funny how both the Famicom and FDS did the exact same thing in their respective twilight eras: re-releasing early titles that came out for the other thing.
Growing up renting Bomberman games on the N64, going back to the OG NES one is pretty tough with how repetitive it is. Even Bomberman II has a lot more going for it.
Good video! Interesting theory on the FDS rerelease inspiring them to make Bomber Boy and Bomberan PCE. Would Bomberman have gone farther down the Bomber King / RoboWarrior route if it weren't for this? Perhaps we'll never know.
Those damn floaters are giving Eric trouble again, this time on the disk system! Once again, I might've grabbed this for 500 yen back in 1990. I should mention that by 1990-1999 I was already buying NES cartridges (like Bomberman) for $1-10. In fact, I might've bought the fist Bomberman in 1991 for $5, so not too unlike a Japanese kid back then.
I always liked Boulder Dash/Lode Runner more, but Bombernan is such a huge piece of gaming history. It's quite incredible that nowadays retrogamers cherish it, but not care much about stuff like Gyromite :D
I played through this one a couple of days ago, the difficulty is a bit lopsided (starts off hard and becomes a lot easier after you get a few powerups) but it's a fun one to play through at least once. I'd say it's one of the better games you'd find from 1985 on the Famicom 👍
played this off and on back on NES! I mean it's a fun one, but it was definitely perfected in (most of) the later sequels. especially when they started adding in the multiplayer stuff. but as it is IDK if it aged all that well? but might be fun to revisit to see where the series started. (at least in an easier to play format than the PC originals, of course.) also had to laugh at 'it's bombs, it's always bombs' haha. I think I'm kinda partial to the saturn version though.
We’re like two years from Bomberman II - which is like one of those late NES games that’s $$$ in the used market but really shows off what can be done with old NES. th-cam.com/video/1_1r8G15thU/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared Still, Bomberman 1 is a pirate cart standby, it’s pretty old by 1990
Finding it, with a bad sprite hack, in my battery operated pirate portable was a life saver during long blackouts. There aren't many action games of that vintage with solid strategy and an upgrade path.
Bomberman; Who am I? What's my name? Why do I do all of this? How's my world? What's my relationship to Black Bomber, or any other color bomber at all? It ain't important... As long as I can BOMB!
i will suspect that the amount of money it would cost to port Bomberman to the FDS....Disaster is probabbly a big word. Like it probabbly didn't make a lot of money, or even any money, but it probabbly didn't loose them much money.
@@stevep9177 this is just a re-release of the 1985 game. Atomic Punk on the gameboy in 1991 is a little bit of an iteration, but only Bomberman 2 in 1992 do they actually start to put some effort into it, and get new items, give the bomberman characters personality, do something interesting with the areas, a proper battle mode and so on
I did hear it only took Hudson 48 hours to develop the original Famicom version too!
But, it must be a tiny ROM for the FDS, it's one of the main staples you always find on Famiclone multi-carts!
The story goes it was 72 hours, but the only source for this story is a journalist named Hisakazu Hirabayashi who wrote it in his blog in 2011 and then also mentioned it in a Kotaku article
@@RifeXD Ah, interesting, thanks! I didn't know what the source was, so that'll really come in handy, thank you! :)
Funny how both the Famicom and FDS did the exact same thing in their respective twilight eras: re-releasing early titles that came out for the other thing.
Growing up renting Bomberman games on the N64, going back to the OG NES one is pretty tough with how repetitive it is. Even Bomberman II has a lot more going for it.
I had the same experience. Why _can't_ Bomberman be a 3D platformer again?
As a kid, I disliked Bomberman 1 so much that it kind of put me off the series. I probably should have tried some of the later games.
Good video!
Interesting theory on the FDS rerelease inspiring them to make Bomber Boy and Bomberan PCE. Would Bomberman have gone farther down the Bomber King / RoboWarrior route if it weren't for this? Perhaps we'll never know.
Must be Daylight Saving Time again already
Those damn floaters are giving Eric trouble again, this time on the disk system!
Once again, I might've grabbed this for 500 yen back in 1990. I should mention that by 1990-1999 I was already buying NES cartridges (like Bomberman) for $1-10. In fact, I might've bought the fist Bomberman in 1991 for $5, so not too unlike a Japanese kid back then.
I always liked Boulder Dash/Lode Runner more, but Bombernan is such a huge piece of gaming history. It's quite incredible that nowadays retrogamers cherish it, but not care much about stuff like Gyromite :D
I played through this one a couple of days ago, the difficulty is a bit lopsided (starts off hard and becomes a lot easier after you get a few powerups) but it's a fun one to play through at least once. I'd say it's one of the better games you'd find from 1985 on the Famicom 👍
played this off and on back on NES! I mean it's a fun one, but it was definitely perfected in (most of) the later sequels. especially when they started adding in the multiplayer stuff. but as it is IDK if it aged all that well? but might be fun to revisit to see where the series started. (at least in an easier to play format than the PC originals, of course.) also had to laugh at 'it's bombs, it's always bombs' haha. I think I'm kinda partial to the saturn version though.
We’re like two years from Bomberman II - which is like one of those late NES games that’s $$$ in the used market but really shows off what can be done with old NES.
th-cam.com/video/1_1r8G15thU/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
Still, Bomberman 1 is a pirate cart standby, it’s pretty old by 1990
Finding it, with a bad sprite hack, in my battery operated pirate portable was a life saver during long blackouts. There aren't many action games of that vintage with solid strategy and an upgrade path.
Bomberman; Who am I? What's my name? Why do I do all of this? How's my world? What's my relationship to Black Bomber, or any other color bomber at all? It ain't important... As long as I can BOMB!
"All I know is my own existence!"
Bomberman's quest to turn into someone who can't bomb
It's always weird to me that Bomberman didn't always have PVP.
i will suspect that the amount of money it would cost to port Bomberman to the FDS....Disaster is probabbly a big word. Like it probabbly didn't make a lot of money, or even any money, but it probabbly didn't loose them much money.
Did it really take 5 years for someone to say "we're onto something here, let's iterate on it a bit"?
@@stevep9177 this is just a re-release of the 1985 game. Atomic Punk on the gameboy in 1991 is a little bit of an iteration, but only Bomberman 2 in 1992 do they actually start to put some effort into it, and get new items, give the bomberman characters personality, do something interesting with the areas, a proper battle mode and so on
He's back...
and now
He's just as bad........ (but on the fds)
yeaaaahh
So, what's the lore of Bomberman? Terrorist going around blowing stuff up for no apparent reason?
This game is the definition of "Get Gud"
Once you learn how to play it's game on