Bomberman Hero - Nintendo 64 Review - Ultra HDMI - HD 

this game is a true classic, and to my surprise, very easy to return to in modern times due to the responsive and simple controls. Great music and interesting level design keep me coming back every few years.

Bomberman 64 is one of my fave N64 games.

Still one of my favorite N64 games. The mechanics, sound quality, and soundtrack were all a lot of fun. Very underrated, in my opinion.

I never got into the Bomberman games, but it always interested me that there were multiple Bomberman N64 games. I had no idea they were THIS different from one another, though, that's pretty cool! Good stuff man!

This is the only bomberman game I liked and its one of my favorite n64 games

Haven't played this in like 15 years, nostalgia attack lol!

I listen to classic dnb daily so this games soundtrack is perfect!

Dude, you deserve a lot more subs. Great work as always.

feel like a dummy. was thinking about rebuying the bomberman game i remembered playing as a kid. and i kept looking at bomberman 64 reviews thinking.... "this doesnt look right." this is the game i remember, so good. bidding on it on ebay now.

Funny, I first played this as a kid on Virtual Console and what stuck out to me most was the music. I picked it up on N64 when I was in college and now listening to the soundtrack is like going back in time to my first semester.

I love this games music! Bomberman Hero truly holds up!

They recently released an english patch for the japanese exclusive Bomberman 64 Arcade Edition. I know you already had a video on it, but it would be cool to see a review.

Loved Bomberman Hero back in the days! Although it wasn't graphically as impressive as a Banjo-Kazooie it still looks really nice nowadays and aged pretty well imho. I remember being engaged with this game for weeks and months. After beating the story mode and getting a high score in each stage you could unlock more stuff, e.g. a specific treasure hunt + playing as a golden Bomberman. Totally underrated gem!

I loved this game! The soundtrack was AMAZING!

I’d say this actually my favourite bomberman game on the system! Like you say it is very easy to just pick up and play in short bursts

I never played this game, but I adore the soundtrack. It's so good that I would often listen to it on my MP3 player.

I was one of those kids that came across Bomberman hero first I never played any other Bomberman beforehand. Personally I loved the game and I wish it was on the Nintendo switch

The Soundtrack of this game is wonderful. Some tracks let you fall into nostalgic 90s Dream Worlds if you listen to them today. My absolute Favorite from the Music Pieces is Dessert, really worth listening to.

Great Game. One of my all time favorite games on my System. I love the music so much I downloaded the soundtrack for my MP3.

Thanks for making me discover a great soundtrack !

I got the first bomberman 64 as a christmas gift without knowing anything about it and fell in love with it pretty fast, but when a friend bought this game a while later I was at first dissapointed that it didnt have the same style of gameplay. After a while the game started to winning me over, everything about it was just so weird in a good way. In the end I dont know if I like the first or bomberman hero the most, but I do know that I still think about bomberman hero from time to time. when I discuss videogames with my friends and we come to the topic about older and newer games, what we miss about the games that came out when we were kids I always think about bomberman hero and how wierd it was. It is to me the perfect example of a game released on a console during the late 90's. Now so many AAA games feel the same in the same genres, but during the playstation and nintendo 64 games you had so much more to choose from, or atleast it felt like that as i was a kid at the time =)

I love, love this game and its soundtrack. I used four tracks of it in my N64 Not For Resale video. Nice, thorough review!

This game is cool. Played it when I was little. That sound track

Nice video buddy. Bomberman Hero is actually my favorite Bomberman game of all time. :) , but anyway great video and keep up the great work. :)

One of my first 64 games and I loved playing it. As a kid I was really bad at it, but everything about the game was so fascinating for me. The ost is classic.

I had no idea this existed. This looks awesome.

I love this game when growing up. The music was cool I remember I dreamt about the music and the levels.

7:06 I remember this beat since I was a kid. Something Kendrick would rap over lol which I listen to. Or the chronic 2001

Im not a big traditional bomberman fan but all of these bomberman n64 games look awesome.

I have a question for u glenn, do you ever think about reviewing outside of the n64, like maybe snes or playstation. On a side note, I thank you for the n64 enlightenment u have given over the years. Your videos got me back into collecting for it, am currently at 153 ;)

God I wish Hudson had made another platformer like this. The controls were so damn good

I absoloutely loved this game when it came out. I haven’t touched it in years but your review has really made me want to replay it. I was getting some serious nostalgia hits from some of the levels you showed, especially the snow levels at the end where you’re on a snowboard. I only had this and Bomberman 64 but I way prefered this as I found Bomberman 64 tricky to get the hang of.

Watched this with my son. Thanks for bringing it to our attention! I picked it up for us.

Seriusly Love Bomberman Hero 64! Are there any other bombermans that play like hero? I loved the story mode approach.

I remember this game. Being ridiculous hard i played this game way to much when i was little

The soundtrack is amazing, new games does not have ost like this.

This is the only bomberman game on the 64 I played and will always will have a special place for me!

On the draw distance issue, there is one stand-out moment I remember vividly... in the desert area, one stage has a foreground-to-background instead of left-to-right arrangement, and in it you ride platforms towards a temple in the background--but as you approach, it looks like the temple is being slowly formed out of sand dripping from the sky before eventually being colored in as the actual stone structure it is. Almost like one of those examples of a game's limitations being a strength... but that's just one stage, so.

PLEASE BRING THIS TO NSO! The second videogame ive ever played in my life and a massive level of nostalgiaa

Omg the memories...

This is one of the best games on the system, as well as all time. Its not only wholly different from the Bomberman series, but no other action platformer is exactly like it. To find this much variation in stage design, one would have to look back to Donkey Kong Country 2 (Another of the all time best).

Hey Glenn! ahhh, another glorious N64 game. I only rented this one as a kid but it I remember it being quite different from the first N64 game. I felt like it was Hudson's "Super Mario 64"-type title. I have it now and will do a full play-through AFTER I 100% Bomberman 64. Still on the hunt for a US copy of Second Attack but other than that my Bomberman collection for SNES and N64 is complete!

‘I can’t accept Drum & Bass. We need jungle, I’m afraid.’

Consider me a subscriber, this was a pretty solid review and Bomberman Hero is one of my favorite N64 games.

Miss your reviews, Glenn! Hope you're doing alright!

I love your channel so much Glenn!

Bomberman Hero was a bold attempt to try something different, though it does feel like a mixed bag in terms of visuals, controls and a fixed camera angle, yet is kind of average as a platformer. the music is rather catchy though. Personally, Bomberman 64 is my favorite due to its unique story and adventure mode as well as a fun multiplayer.

I read the description Glenn! :) I might prefer Beak or Foehn. All are amazing regardless.

I was more of a fan of bomberman hero than bomberman 64 would like to see the return of bomberman with gameplay like this

This review is gonna get me to pop this one in. I just always went off what I had heard in the past and that this was the worst of the 3 American releases. I didn't even checkout gameplay. I love the multiplayer Japanese release but will look forward to finally playing this one now. Good reviews as always. Take care

There were 4 bomberman 64 games ? I know of 64, hero, and 2nd attack what’s the fourth one ?

5:16 "you won't find yourself languishing on the bosses for too long and losing interest in the game" it happened to me with the water stage Sphinx boss battle. I couldn't stop dying, but roughly 5 years later I finally beat the game

You said the 4th and final Bomberman game on N64, but what's the 4th? All I'm seeing is Bomberman 64, Bomberman 64 The Second Attack, and Bomberman Hero, that's 3

loved this game as a kid

Whoa. I just like the one title Bomberman 64 mostly for the multiplayer but i like the campaign as well. Was completely oblivious to how good this one was though. Nice b reel.

Oh no I live in the US and this soundtrack is very memorable

I only was able to play the first Bomberman game, as I didn't know there was more games made on the Nintendo 64.

I'm an American with no knowledge of DNB but I listen to the OST to this almost daily , It's just a great OST in general

I really enjoyed this game, except for that one huge desert level near the end of the game, that level can go to Hades

Lots of N64 music had that drum and bass vibe. I always liked although it wasn't the type of music I listened to at the time. Beetle adventure racing especially comes to mind! Having fun discovering some artists in the genre nowadays!

I really enjoy playing this game. The gameplay offers some variations and so do the environments. Pretty nice !

The soundtrack for this game is really good. Easily top 5 in the system which places it up high overall.

This sound track dough! I want more music like it nowadays!

I actually want to play all 3 Bomberman games on the N64 (not 4 because the 4th one is Japan only and it's hard to get that game here in the states due to it's high cost and it's in Japanese so I wouldn't understand what they are saying in the game)! The reason I want to get all 3 is because I have heard of the Bomberman games for years but have never actually played them due to me being busy with my life or me just playing the most successful games on the console like Mario 64, DK 64, Banjo Kazooie, Smash 64, Mario Kart 64, Yoshi's Story, all 3 Mario Parties, and Banjo Tooie!

Between this and Tetrisphere/The New Tetris, there's some fantastic electronica on the N64

take a guess what my first nintendo 64 game was back in early 1999

This is actually in my top 3 favorite games of all time if you believe it

4 Bomberman 64 games?! I only know this one and the first one 😱

I loved this game as a child.

I'd personally have to agree that Bomberman Hero is not the first game one should recommend for those looking for a so-called "true" Bomberman experience. it's got many of the same aesthetics, but the gameplay is just too different. That said, Bomberman Hero is the only Bomberman game on N64 that I actually finished after I bought it. (Admittedly this was years later after the N64 lost its relevance, but the point stands.) It's not that the other games are bad; Hero just grabs me harder for some reason. I don't think that's a coincidence. Good review Glenn Plant. :)

I hear the background music and can't help but think "Right abboutnow its time for da biggity buck bumble"

I thouht i was the only one that loved the OST from this game. And since i'm from Brazil not UK, you can't say it's because of what was trend at the time. I just like how the soundtrack sounds kinda "space" and experimental. Reminds me of one of the B-Daman Bomberman's for the SNES, probably same composer...

Still prefer The Second Attack due to its solid single-player and excellent multi-player modes, but this game is excellent. Possibly my #1 favorite game soundtrack of all time. Haha, I just finished the video and Glenn made the same statements about TSA.

Had a giant poster of this game on my bedroom door! Got it from a games shop. Never played it though lol

have you heard of Bomberman Act Zero For Xbox 360?. it very different from the other bomberman games.

Will you review world driver championship??

YASSSSSSSSSSS I've been askin for this for a year N a hlf thanks, I lov ethis game and still have soundtack on my phone

I got this game for my birthday back when it came out. Up until a few years ago, it was also the only N64 Bomberman game I had ever played. I never liked Bomberman's voice and it always put me off of the game for some reason. I don't think I ever beat the game either. It was weirdly difficult and my skills at the time weren't super great. I remember getting to the fake final boss and never beating him. Getting a perfect 5 on all stages (especially the bosses) plus all the collectable bombs was simply out of the question for me back then too. I did get a copy of this when I started collecting N64 games years ago and I probably could finish the game finally (all 5's and all bombs) as my skills have greatly increased over the years. I'm going through a weird phase where I don't feel like playing any games right now though, so it'll have to wait... Bomberman Hero is one of those games for me like Sonic 3D Blast. I have a strong nostalgic connection to it, but I don't really care for the game for one reason of another. 3D Blast is a whole different story, but my distaste for Hero is seriously all because I didn't like Bomberman's voice when I was a kid...

Soundtrack steals the show.

God I want to get this game again on my switch

I really enjoyed both this and Second Attack when I was younger, so it's hard to say which is my all time favorite. Hero does have the more memorable soundtrack though, and I liked things like the elemental bombs and levels in Second Attack quite a bit. I guess for me they're about equal, and to this day I still wish there was another action-adventure Bomberman game (there was going to be one on the 3DS but sadly it was cancelled when Hudson went out of business).

It’s funny the game store I get my games from said this wasn’t a good game. I will get it now and try it out.

I think this game cemented the seed for my love of drum'n'bass, making me like that kind of music later on. But honestly, the condition to unlock the final word felt kinda stupid. In addition to finding the 24 hidden trinkets, also having to finish the game 100%? I never felt like it was a nessecity to finish the levels with a perfect score. Maybe it's time for me to go back and finish it 100%.

I LOVE THIS GAME

I don't think it matters where you are from to enjoy certain music genres. I mean I'm an american and a metalhead but I still love this soundtrack, its just so catchy. As for which N64 Bomberman game I prefer? Tough call because I've only played Bomberman Hero and Bomberman 64. I enjoy Bomberman Hero for the fast-paced action platforming but I also enjoy Bomberman 64 for its more puzzle like levels. I guess I would go with Bomberman Hero because I prefer a bit more speed and skill over puzzles and strategy.

Getting a 5 on the jetpack levels is a pain!

I always liked checking this game out in Nintendo Power, but never got around to playing it. Looks fun though.

This game looks fantastic!

Bomberman heroes' soundtrack was a godsend. I however enjoyed playing it the most, I think that second attack was the better game and handled best.

Does it have ability gating like Metroid or Zelda?

Best music on the N64!

this is peak aesthetics

i love the old bomberman 64 games

My fav games

I always like Bomberman 64's multiplayer the best and at the time I also thought Bomberman Hero was a nice change of pace that worked out better than I expected it to. Somehow as a kif it took me a long time to connect the game's story to Star Wars. Makes me feel kind of silly now.

Best soundtrack

4 Bomberman games? I only know of 64, The Second Attack, and Hero?

Dragon Quest Slime at 3:38 ?

I was really dissappointed on these N64 Bomberman games as I loved Bomberman 2 on NES, 3D was just pushed on these too early while Saturn got its fantastic Saturn Bomberman and 10 player multiplayer mode. :) Still... I'd say that Bomberman 64 was the best for me.

it's my favorite bomberman game of all time (at least for single player). The lack of multiplayer is a let down though.