/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7368887]

Which games in the bomberman series would you say are worth playing besides saturn and the pc engine games?

[Anonymous No.7368898]

Bomberman Land Touch is pretty fun. That isn't retro though, and I'd say you've already mentioned the worthwhile retro titles, so 'gratulations

[Anonymous No.7368957]

neogeo bomberman best bomberman
64 is super underrated and has the best SP

[Anonymous No.7369113]

bomberman hero.
maybe it's just nostalgia but I really like it.
nitros is super cool, too.

[Anonymous No.7369437]

Dynablaster on the Amiga with 4 friends.

[Anonymous No.7369670]

64 has the best SP and MP
and is also different mechanically from all other bombermen

[Anonymous No.7369727]

>>7369437
that's what some slavscum would play

[Anonymous No.7369795]

>>7368887
I guess games post-2002 don't count, but I'd recommend the 5 Super Bomberman games, the GB trilogy, Neo, any version of Panic Bomber games (I played the Virtual Boy one), Quest, Tournament, Jetters: Densetsu no Bomberman, and Generation. Have not played any of the N64 titles, but I know a lot of people like 64. Pocket isn't bad either if you want a quick game to beat in under an hour. I believe some people like Fantasy Race as well.

>>7368898
I like this one a lot, and its sequel isn't so shabby, but they're not full-on retro yet. Same with 2 on DS, really good, but not old enough yet.

[Anonymous No.7369880]

>>7369113
Hero is best 1player mode by far.

[Anonymous No.7369883]

>>7368887
All of the SNES games are really good

[Anonymous No.7369907]

>>7369883
The 1st one is a little shaky (though I love its soundtrack and aesthetics)

[Anonymous No.7370006]

The three games on Nintendo 64 that the west got are all good, and more importantly are each unique. Easily my three favorite Bomberman games, admittedly there's some nostalgia bias but I grew up with a number of Bomberman games and the N64 trilogy were ALWAYS my favorites.

Pocket Bomberman is a fun quick little game and turns the series into a platformer. Worth playing, it's fun.

I've heard good things about Tournament and Jetters but haven't played either, and I don't think Jetters has a translation hack. Both are RPGs, but not turn based.

Fuck the board rules, Bomberman 2 DS is one of the best games in the series and I'm gonna recommend it. One of the only 'traditional' Bomberman games to do something different. Very good.

Off the top of my head those are the only good games that do something different. The Super Bomberman games are good, the PC Engine games are good, all those different traditional Bomberman games are good but are nearly identical with only a few unique stage hazards or power ups to set them apart from the others. You don't really need to play ALL of them, they're kinda the same game. I would say Saturn is the best one. If you want more like Saturn you can play those, if you want to see something different then play what I've recommended.

I really like the experimental stuff more than "Super Bomberman, Again" which is what most of the series is like. Some people prefer the traditional gameplay and want the series to stick to that.

[Anonymous No.7370016]

wario blast

[Anonymous No.7370042]

>>7368887
Bomberman 64 is nice

[Anonymous No.7370436]

>>7368887
For actually playing Battle Mode (either offline or online), I recommend Power Bomberman.

It's a fangame but really well done, it has a Saturn Bomberman style, lots of power-ups, dozens of stages, hundreds of characters to unlock, everything is very customizable so you can iron out anything that doesn't fit your taste.

[Anonymous No.7371006]

>>7370016
That game just has so much soul, especially considering it's a romhack. I like how Wario's creator, Kiyotake, had a part in its development.

[Anonymous No.7371018]

>>7368887
The most unique bomberman is a java version of bomberman called 3d bomberman. But, theres a few different games called 3d bomberman. The other ones are traditional bomberman, but this one has interesting level designs you wouldn't expect. Its my favorite bomberman, besidez bomberman 5

[Anonymous No.7371021]

>>7371018
Super bomberman 5*

[Anonymous No.7373071]

Pocket Bomberman is interesting. It's a 2D platformer and a regular Bomberman game at the same time.

[Anonymous No.7373084]

>>7368887
I gotta go with the classics bomberman hero and Super bomberman 2 on the snes. grew up with them and maybe its nostalgia but love them to death.

[Anonymous No.7374142]

>>7369113
Agreed, solid platforming, decent bosses, and kino music. Having played this one first, I always felt the more traditional bomberman games lacking.

[Anonymous No.7374193]

>>7374142
>Having played this one first, I always felt the more traditional bomberman games lacking.
This is how I feel about all of the N64 Bombermans. The top down 2D series just doesn't do it for me.

[Anonymous No.7374218]

They're all the same game. What's the point in playing any of them?

[Anonymous No.7374305]

>>7368887
Another vote for bomberman 64. Graphics arent great, but it was just a lot of fun.

[Anonymous No.7374698]

>>7368887
The SNES ones are as good as any.

[Anonymous No.7374718]

>>7374218
See >>7370006
90% of the games are interchangeable but there some real neat, unique games mixed in as well.

[Anonymous No.7374759]

>>7370006
Tournament is a direct sequel to Bomberman Quest, both of which you would love. Tournament adds Pokemon-like elements (Karabons/Charaboms) to Quest's Zelda-esque gameplay.

[Anonymous No.7374938]

>>7374218
There's a lot of different nuances between battle modes, they may look the same at first glance, but there's a lot of pros and cons.
The same item could work really well or be almost worthless depending on the game, some items may or may not exist, some items are exclusive to certain games, some games have mounts with different powers, in some games the characters themselves have different powers, the arenas are always different from game to game so certain games have a better list of arenas, etc. It's a lot of small details that stacks up into something relevant at the end.

[Anonymous No.7375230]

>>7374759
I've actually tried Quest and wasn't crazy about it, even if I respected it for trying something new. Too puzzle focused for my taste, I didn't like how there could only be one enemy on screen at a time, and how you could only find one once every few screens. Once you get past the first few it's like ten-twenty minutes looking around for a one-two minute fight.

Like I said though, I respect it for trying something unique. I can't think of any other game like that.

Tournament has been a game I've been wanting to get around to for a long time though, it's high time I check that one out.

[Anonymous No.7375236]

>>7368887
I've never played a Saturn game and I'm not sure what a PC engine even is, but Bomberman Generation is a great game. It was actually my first "real" console game. I got it for Christmas along with my Gamecube when I was 6 years old, so it's really nostalgic for me. I think it holds up though. The adventure mode is great, and the multiplayer is fun as well. The coin battle is a lot of fun to play with other people.

[Anonymous No.7375242]

>>7375230
I played Tournament before Quest. IIRC, the action and puzzle elements are toned down in comparison to Quest.

[Anonymous No.7375249]

>>7375236
PC Engine is another name for the Turbografx. I still need to check out Generations. Have it sealed in my armoire, but not sure if want to unseal it yet. I read about it in NP back in 4th grade, and it seemed like it had an incredible amount of soul.

[Anonymous No.7375256]

>>7375249
So what kind of games does PC engine have on it? I don't think I've ever actually picked up on the names of any PC engine games despite using this board for awhile. Is there anything worth emulating?

[Anonymous No.7375259]

>>7375236
>>7375249
I didn't like the singleplayer of Generations as much as the N64 games which I'd played before it, but the multiplayer was fun. I remember me and my friends all really liking the bomb rain multiplayer mode where you just have to dodge the explosions. Even my little sister and her friends liked that mode a ton and they didn't play videogames very often, but they always liked bomb rain.

[Anonymous No.7375265]

>>7375256
A very popular Bomberman game, an overhyped collection of shooters, a cool Castlevania game, and some RPG's of varying quality.
Obviously that's not all of it, but I that's what it's most known for.

[Anonymous No.7375269]

>>7375259
Yeah, dodge battle is another fun one. Also, it's Generation, not Generations. Easy mistake to make, but after booting the game hundreds of times the audio track of him shouting "Bomberman Generation!" is seared into my brain.

[Anonymous No.7375271]

>>7375256
Bomberman '93 and Bomberman '94 are both on it. Both are standard Bomberman games but are widely considered good, on par with the Super games.

The console apparently has a lot of good shmups but the only PCE games I've ever played were the above Bombermans on wii virtual console.

[Anonymous No.7375273]

>>7375265
>>7375271
Huh, seems pretty obscure. Was its failure the reason Hudson got bought by Konami and killed?

[Anonymous No.7375275]

>>7375256
Bonk's Adventure series is something you might want to start wity. If you don't like the original, try its sequel, Bonk's Revenge, which is even better. Also try Ys Book I & II for Turbografx (PC Engine) CD and its sequels Ys III: Wanderers of Ys and Ys IV: Dawn of Ys. Start with those if you want chill games for it. There are a lot harder (arcade-type) games for it and a lot of anime games for turboweebs on it if you like stuff like that.

[Anonymous No.7375278]

>>7375269
Yeah, sorry. Even though I bought the game, I haven't played it yet, and it's so easy to tend to add an s to words like that lol

[Anonymous No.7375284]

People were telling me Bomberman Online for DC has a single-player mode in the same vein as and as good as the N64 ones. Is that true?

[Anonymous No.7375292]

>>7375273
Nah, the last iteration of the "PC Engline" consoles died in 1997 or so, but Hudson still made (great) games for every platform until 2011 when Konami ate them.

[Anonymous No.7375360]

>>7375273
It was only a failure in the West. As far as I’m aware in Japan it was ROUGHLY as well known as SNES and Genesis, though I believe a small amount behind both in sales.

I’m sure bombing in the West didn’t help, but it’s not why they eventually went under years later.

[Anonymous No.7375373]

>>7375284
Definitely not in the same vein as the N64 games. You can look it up yourself, it's just the various multiplayer modes against CPU opponents and then a unique boss. Gameplay is traditional, although the modes/maps are more creative than most 2D Bombermans. There's a mode where the map is split in half and bombs are teleported to the opponents side, and a 'paint the floor with explosions' splatoon type mode for instance. Cool, but not at all similar to the N64 titles emphasis on singleplayer adventure.

[Anonymous No.7375403]

>>7368887
I've been playing through bomberman 3 with a friend on netplay. Finishing the final boss sometime the next few days. I really enjoy it, not sure why they didn't release it in the US. I think it's better than the first. For some reason bomberman 2 didn't have coop adventure mode, so we skipped over it for the time being. Might come back for battle mode at some point.

The stage 3 theme from bomberman 3 is an underrated banger imo.

[Anonymous No.7375569]

>>7375403
>I really enjoy it, not sure why they didn't release it in the US.
I've wondered this too, same for 4 and 5. It's not like the SNES Bomberman games here sold poorly.

[Anonymous No.7375760]

>>7371006
what do you mean its a romhack?

[Anonymous No.7375784]

>>7375760
It's a reskin of Bomber Man GB.

[Anonymous No.7375907]

>>7375784
it was the western release, so... it not really a romhack.

[Anonymous No.7375931]

>>7368887
Panic Bomber

[Anonymous No.7376234]

>>7375403
For Battle Mode SB4 and SB5 are my favorites, they have enough differences that you don't have to commit to just one.
For Story Mode, I think SB2 is the best of the Snes games, Stages have scrolling instead of just being 1 screen, there's more gimmicks to interact instead of just blowing enemies, etc
SB1 and SB3 are just "there" for me, but I do like the Story Mode of Mega Bomberman (Genesis), graphically similar to SB3 but the Story Mode is actually quite different from it and way more interesting.

[Anonymous No.7376268]

I’ve tried playing power bomberman but none of the controllers i have seem to work, anyone know why?

[Anonymous No.7376343]

I like SB3 and Saturn. I think SB5 would have been the best if it didnt have the homing bombs on some battlemode stages. Also not to much of a fan of the mine-powerup. Sucks to randomly step on a mine and sucks even more to accidentally collect the powerup especially when u only have 1-2 bombs :(
Which game has the best Battlemode AI?

[Anonymous No.7376354]

>>7376268
Plug the controller before opening the game.
Did you go to the Options menu to configure? It's not automatic, go either from main screen or you can press F3.
Both my Xinput and Dinput controllers work, but from what I read just now apparently Dualshock 4 maybe be a bit tricky?
If it still doesn't works, you could ducktape it with JoyToKey, it allows you to bind keyboard to your controller.

Some random gameplay for other anons to know what it plays like, game is worth the effort:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl7auF5lqAQ

[Anonymous No.7376367]

>>7376354
Yeah I tried everything from my xbone controller, my switch pro. I got a read from my 8 bit do controller but the menu went wild with scrolling so it didn’t actually work

[Anonymous No.7377364]

>>7375907
Romhack doesn't imply official status. Ms. Pacman was a romhack.
Though for Wario Blast, if they used dev tools then it could be considered more of a mod than a romhack, I guess, because they wouldn't have needed to do any 'hacking'.

[Anonymous No.7377579]

>>7368887
The SNES and N64 era were also great, 64: The Second Attack being the last truly great console release before the Charabom times.