But that is what I meant in the first place, the games that inspired the SNES collection, not that were inspired by them. I think the plots are similar in the way that something is torn apart (either control chips or relics) by five unknown forces (the Five Dastardly Bombers or the... uh, five bizarre monsters-thingies) sent by a master (probably Bagular in both cases, and although I could be wrong, I prefer to think of it that way) and it's up for Bomberman to defeat them and save the world/galaxy. The areas are also similar (except, as I said before, for the haunted mansion).

You do have a nice intuition, y'know? Neo Bomberman was indeed released in 1997, one year after Super Bomberman 4 and about the same time as Super Bomberman 5. So it was really made with 4's elements, not the other way around as I said. Sorry, sorry!

About SFF and Yabause, they are Sega Saturn emulators. SSF needs something called "SS2", which comes or not with the computer's processor.

in regards to Bomberman 64, you are right but wrong at the same time. I dug around a little and found that the PSX's Bomberman Land was indeed released before (2000), but, as far as I know, Bomberman 64 seems to be a conventional bomb'em-up with additional modes. Buuuut, since I don't understand japanese and therefore can't play through all modes, I may be wrong.