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Plasma Bomber · #102 Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:53 pm

So here's something bizarre, that I've never seen mentioned before.

I'm hard at work translating the info from the Super Bomberman Guidebook and posting articles on the wiki. I just posted an article for Moguchan (the mole-like enemy that burrows into the ground and emerges somewhere else), and I was wondering why all of the artwork is drastically different. Then I happened to take a closer look at one of the screenshots from the Guidebook, and I noticed something... the sprites in the Japanese version of the game were entirely different. Punching in the password for Stage 3 into the Japanese version, I was greeted with radically different Moguchans.

It's hard to explain. See for yourself. Both sprites, and the artwork, are now on that page.

So... why the drastic change for the European and U.S. versions? Did... did they misinterpret it as a blackface or something?