Battle of the Ports - Bomberman (Modern) (ボンバーマン) Show 513 - 60fps 

Can we all take a minute to appreciate how good the main Bomberman theme is? Yeah, it debuted back in the NES game, but it really came to life here with the addition of the second verse. I'd honestly argue it's up there with the main Mario, Zelda, Bubble Bobble and Tetris themes as one of the most iconic and timeless tunes in gaming.

Finally, the Amiga got a respectable port of a Japanese console game. And I seem to remember it came bundled with a serial adapter to allow 4 joysticks to be connected. But lots of love for Hudsonsoft from us Amiga owners. Both Bonk (BC Kid)! And Yo! Joe! were awesome too.

That Turbografx-16 cover is priceless

Good to see Eric finally get over his issue with the floaters

I love a channel where these are the “modern” versions.

It's like a history lessen came full circle! Thanks for showing the modern version, it really is neat to see the original versions and this for contrast.

the tg16 port is beautiful on all fronts. music, sound, design. i love it

Proud owner of the PC-Engine version... still one of my favourite games for the system. Oh, and pro tip: don't bomb the exit squares, unless you like extra monsters chasing you. 😉

Yayyyy!!!! Welcome back, Mark. My favorite RU-vid show on my Sunday morning. Never missed a Battle of the Ports. It's my go-to. As for Bomberman, the TurboGrafx 16 of Bomberman '94. I played it several times. Such a fun game

oh man, this is the game i grew up with! Hudson Soft masterpiece Bomberman

Sven Appel who was the musician for the canned C64 version, speaking to GTW about it.. Sven tells GTW… “Well, i can tell you that this conversion was never released. I made the music conversion and lots of sprite graphics. The two player battle mode was almost finished. But the game was never released. We made it for Hudson Soft Germany. I don’t have any code left. Only musics and graphics.”

The Amiga entry was my first bomberman game

the Amiga had incredible credits music.

Game Sack is the equivalent to Mac and Cheese on a cold Fall afternoon. Straight comfort food for the senses. I love Game Sack. Been watching the channel almost since the creation of the channel. Excellent episode. Now i gotta download Bomberman Hero gor myself. Thanks Joe for driving up the cost of games

Thank you It was Factor 5 on the Amiga and an "in-house team" from Ubi Soft on the Atari ST. This explains many things.

Let's a go! Love some Bomberman! Nice! 💣 👨‍🚀💣💥💥

6:59 Wow at the game dev trolling the player really hard there. You sound like me on picking the best version cuz of the music. Final Fight CD, PC Engine's Monster Lair, 3DO's Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, etc. are the best versions just cuz of the awesome music, IMO.

"Eric and the floaters" 😅 Dynablaster was a better name i guess than that original one

Something about at least the Amiga and ST ports, is if you had the adapter for Gauntlet II and a few other games, you could do FIVE-player battle mode. Two on the main ports, two on the printer port adapter, and a final player on the keypad. Plus, I think copies of Dynablaster had the adapter in it (least, my second-hand copy did).

Awesome, wasn't expecting a Bomberman '90 video this soon! :)

Damn, both Bonk and Bomberman have really good Amiga ports! I dunno what happened but Hudson Soft got lucky there

I do love the Amiga version and how good the Amiga music is in this game.

I also enjoy the sharp x 68,000 music as well especially the third main theme when you get to the castle areas 6 and 8

Magnificent for setting the stage of the franchise onwards

' _Derivative_ work 1990 SystemSoft'. :-) Using that word reminds me of the early 80s, when it seemed as though every other home game was an unofficial clone of Galaxian, Pac-Man, etc. 7:17

Anything Bomberman is A-Okay with me Mark. Personally, My favorite is Neo Bomberman. Still enjoy playing after all these years. 8^) Anthony..

Bomberman is still one of the best multiplayer games ever made

Bomberman one of my favorite games. First time I played bomberman was the famicom version and still have my game copy. I did not played the one mentioned in the video, but I played the Super Famicom versions.

The Amiga version also had some new music which was great

Played Amiga version a lot with my late dad :) Wonder why both ST and PC went with original soundtrack?

The PCE original is hard to surpass. Bomber Man should've been the system mascot, imo. Bomberman GB on the Game Boy is really slick, too, though it's more of a sequel/spinoff than a true port of the original (still way better than the Famicom version).

SystemSoft also did a nice PC-98 port of another Hudson PC Engine game, Nectaris. It's higher res than the original and all that good stuff, the X68k port is also good but is a lot more chunky imo.

Amiga got good PC Engine games for sure. Also Amiga did not have a FM chip, but only samples, but may have been lowfi due memory, its still fine for this game. Multiplayer was very possible in that version as well But also there was a C64 version in work as well, but newer got finished and released. Its stated in the manual. lol.

Brutal comparison.

Wish someone would rip the music of the Atari ST port, its all original

Played this for years with my mates in the UK. We had it on PC Engine import. Bomberman 94 was the best version on the PC Engine. I haven't played a version of Bomberman better than that.

Love the bomberman series! My first bomberman game was Wario Blast on the OG Gameboy 💣

that PCE soundchip is just so lush

I always played the NES version but definitely I would love to try both PC Engine & X68000 versions

Greay video !!!

They didn't care at all with the ST version. I really wanted to like it because the game itself is great but the sluggish controls have you running into enemies and losing all your power-ups. There's very few cases where I died and it was my fault.

It's a shame that it seems like the ST got the short end a bit too often.

Well at least he's not being decapitated anymore...

I've been way too excited waiting for this show. This game is the gold standard of Bomberman, the game that all future entries in the series need to live up to. my favorite is still the original PC Engine version, it still looks and sounds great now. Sharp X68000 comes in second, a near perfect port, but it looks a little stretched, don't you think? As for the western home computer ports, it would seem they were developed by a one off studio named Actionamics, this is the only game they've ever done. I'm guessing they were just the result of some collaboration between Hudson Soft and Ubisoft? Anyway, the Amiga port is great, I'd go as far as to say it's got one up on the PC Engine in the music department. MS-DOS is there, it does the job, but the Atari ST is comically bad. There's no reason it should look that much worse than the Amiga. It's almost like Commodore slipped Hudson and Ubisoft some fat checks with the agreement they'd purposely botch up the ST port. It would also seem an Atari LYNX port was in-development back in the day. It has the same Dyna Blaster name as the computer ports, and so far, only has it's title screen available online and it looks a bit rough have to say. I'm sure the LYNX could do this type of game well, in fact it can, Bombercats, a homebrew based on Bomberman, manages to fit as much on screen as the official ports while somehow not looking like complete turd. It always surprised me what the LYNX can do. I'd argue it's the only Atari system that is worth owning, as much as saying that might piss some off, but sorry, the 2600 is to put it bluntly, outdated, the 5200 was just bad, the 7800 had potential, and nowadays has a striving homebrew scene, but back in the day was a laughing joke compared to the Famicom or Master System, and the ST is just a worse Amiga, oh and the Jaguar, outside of Rayman, it's got nothing good. Never understood why there are so many passionate Jag fans who will defend the system like their life depends on it.

I had never seen the computer ports, love to see the weird ports! As usual the japanese computer port is by far the best!

Not sure if it’s a different game, but I do remember Dyna-Blaster (Bomberman) from arcades by Irem. It looks and plays like this, but has powerups flooding everywhere and they only last for the current stage

Top Tip, if you want your version to sound like the Amiga version, just put large pillows over your speakers.

Nice:)

I think there was also a C64 version of Dyna Blaster. I had a demo of it from a magazine cover tape.

In a game of this type, better quality music really will elevate one version over another, the X6800 version has better arrangements and sounds so much 'fuller'. The Atari ST does what the Atari ST does, it certainly can do some decent chip tunes but not this time.

Dyna Blaster and Atomic Punk are for Bomberman what *Gryzor, Probotector & C* is for Contra: Names to avoid things related to human war. And both IP names are from Konami nowadays.

I'm hungry hungry hippo for 2D Bomberman!!!!!!!

TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine is arguably the best port for me.

A little surprising how different the Amiga and Atari ST versions are. Usually they're the same games with the same assets and just slightly different graphics and audio. So does "Super" come after "Modern?" And where does "Mega" fit in? 😁

The PC Engine was designed in 1983-5 by HudsonSoft and spent a further 3+ years in development with NEC. Hudson designed the system themselves and it's well over 4 times the power of the snes. But more importantly, the hardware is well designed (a late gimping notwithstanding). I strongly suspect the SNES is a fully 8bit machine whereas the PC Engine graphics chip is full 16bit.

It would be nice if someone made a PC Engine CD homebrew port, with features based on the SharpX68000 version.

The reason why the Amiga, MS-DOS, and the Atari ST ports exist is because the PC Engine barely sold in Europe compared to US and Japan. Also, I didn't know there's the Sharp X68000 port of the PC Engine game...

(c)1990,2024 Konami.

System Soft worked on a Bomberman port? wow.. i only know them because of the Dai Senryaku series, in particular I started with 7 on the original xbox i found at a used game store a decade or more ago, and then tried others like the mega drive and psx ones.. other than that i know nothing about them

I wrongly thought SNES version were related to this one😮😮😮

Its not every day that you get to go "Look at how great the Amiga version turned out!"

I had Dynablaster on the Gameboy. I’m sure it was Bomberman with a different name.

I always forget Bomberman suppose to be like Mega Man or Rockman, just a Robot not some weird alien race who love blow everything.

Among the European computer ports, which soundtrack do you prefer? The Amiga port's direct arrangements of the original tracks, or the Atari ST's new tracks? EDIT: I didn't expect you'd say the DOS port sounds better than the Atari ST. The DOS port's soundtrack still consists of arrangements of the PC Engine version, and it's MUCH worse off than the Amiga. Like, zero redeeming tracks here, and they don't even play in the right worlds. For example, World 1 uses Stage BGM2 instead of BGM1, and World 2 uses the latter. Meanwhile the Atari ST's music actually sounds alright for the platform.

i'm gonna be nitpicky and shitty but shouldnt the x68k version squish the screen signal to a more square aspect?

Bone Bar Man

Any chance of comparing the: Populous, SimCity, Wolfenstein 3D, Iron Lord, or Mig-29 Fulcrum ports?

Make one for Donkey Kong Jr.

Was Super Bonberman on the SFam different?

what did you run the dynablaster dos on? it looks a bit slow from memory

I never knew there was a ST version. Shame it's such a bad port, the ST could do way better.

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Can you make a video on International superstar deluxe?

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The Sharp X68000 and the PC Engine versions are very good! As for the European versions, there is one port I had to choose. And that's the Amiga port! Even though it only uses one fire button, and space as another, it runs very smooth like in a console game! The MS DOS version is okay, but I might have to say that the Atari ST is the worst port, because I knew it was going to be a stinker over the Amiga! It's not completely the worst, but the jerky movement is a pain in the bootie.

The Playstation version was decent - the main reason to own a multitap IMO!