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Duke Serkol · #29 Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 5:51 pm

Shiro wrote:

I kinda thought Bomberman II was a direct sequel to the first game, after Bomberman was turned human but without sprite differences to help build a mascot or something (since his human form is Lode Runner).

Bomberman II came out very late in the life of the NES. In fact, I'm pretty certain it came out shortly before Bomberman 93 on the PCE... which means already after the first PCE Bomberman game. This makes sense since both games feature the Black Bomber. So yeah, that would classify Bomberman II more as a sequel to the PCE Bomberman than the NES one. Ironic uh?

The original Bomberman on NES, like I said and as you pointed out, has had only a few sequels. The Hudson-made NES Lode Runner games (although technically it is Bomberman that is a prequel to those), Bomberking and Bomberboy on the GB (I'm listing these two in order of release, but in terms of plot it's the other way around).
The arcade games by Irem also appear to be set in this continuity, but that is open to debate.

Shiro wrote:

I just remembered that PC Engine Bomberman had two humans, one of which Bomberman had to rescue and was remarkably different from himself: there is one that looks like a doctor, and he could pretty much be an earlier design for Dr. Ein, or maybe the one who built Bomberman since there he owns such a large lab, don't you think?

That seems in fact to be the case. I mean, I do not have any official sources (like say, manuals *sigh*) but I've heard some people who seemed to know their stuff state that the scientist in the first PCE Bomberman is Bomberman's creator, Dr. Ein. Looks like in the future they finally find the cure for baldness (either that or he transplanted his beard on top of his head).

Shiro wrote:

In this same game Kurobon's castle was destroyed, though, so I don't give it much credit (since it was supposedly taken in Super Bomberman). I also don't think a castle can be easily rebuilt, even for Bombermen.

Yeah, the Black Bomber can make his own artificial planet, but fixing a castle? That's impossible clearly

Shiro wrote:

In regards to Bomberman Tournament: you know, I never really noticed it in that way! To me, it all seemed just slightly implied. But since it's been almost two years since I've last played the game, I'll have to play through it again to make correct statements about this.

The quotes ARE admittedly thrown at you in a rather unorganized fashion, so one has to commit them to memory in order to understandwhat the heck they are going on about (for most of the game, I thought there were two Max, Bomberman's friend and a knight. Only during the ending when the queen recognized him I realized they were one and the same).

Shiro wrote:

...You know, we could make a wiki of sorts to Bomberman. There are many games and many plots, if I wasn't a diehard fanboy, I wouldn't remember half of it! I did edit some articles in wikipedia, but I can't go in-depth there (much like comparing the original wiki with Mario wiki, which is much, much more complete). I also don't feel good about making articles in Bomber Wiki, since it feels the place is abandoned.

I always wanted to make my own Bomberman site to write up this sort of stuff as well as details on the game mechanics (like list in which games the kick cancels the bomb pass and viceversa rather than letting you have both). Never got around it due to both time ad lack of webspace.