History VideoGame / Bomberman

* ''Bomberman'' (1983) - MSX, ZX Spectrum, NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-6001, Sharp MZ-700, FM-7; (1985) - NES
** ''Bomberman II'' (1991) - NES

!!This franchise contains examples of:

* ChainReactionDestruction: Bosses in ''Super Bomberman''. Somehow it explodes in thin air around them too.

* DummiedOut: ''Atomic VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}'' came with modding tools, making DummiedOut portions of the game easy to find - including unused, profanity-laced vocal taunts.

* MirrorBoss: The [[QuirkyMinibossSquad evil bombers]], which started showing up in ''Super Bomberman 2''.
** One world in ''Super Bomberman'' pitted you against [[BossRush waves of]] [[EvilKnockoff unnamed evil]] [[WolfpackBoss Bombermen]] built by one of the game's main villains.

* MonsterClown: The boss of the second world in ''Super Bomberman'' is a giant clown head.

** A majority of the Bomberman Land games.

* NostalgiaLevel: ''Super Bomberman 5'' has perhaps the most ridiculous execution of this trope with the first four worlds being entire Nostalgia Worlds based on the four preceding games.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: The Four Bomber Kings (plus Great Bomber) to the Five Dastardly Bombers in ''Super Bomberman 4''.

** In ''Super Bomberman 2'', Plasma Bomber's doomsday device fulfills this role quite surprisingly by [[spoiler: killing Plasma Bomber just before he could complete a HeelFaceTurn then attacks Bomberman.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: in ''Bomberman 64: The Second Attack'', Bomberman is revealed to be this in the Good Ending.

* DontTryThisAtHome: Pile Driver from Generation.

* FiveManBand: In the ''Land'' games:
** TheHero: Cheerful White
** TheLancer: Cool Black
** TheBigGuy: Giant Gold
** TheSmartGuy: Bookworm Green
** TheChick: Cute Pink
** TagalongKid: Kid Blue

* MiniGameGame: The ''Bomberman Land'' spinoff series.

* {{Spinoff}}: The ''Bomberman Land'' series on the DS and PSP, which shifts the focus to bomb-based {{Mini Game}}s.

* ''Bomberman'' (1983) - {{MSX}}, ZXSpectrum, NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-6001, Sharp MZ-700, FM-7; (1985) - [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]]

* ''VideoGame/SuperBomberman series'' (1993 - 1997) - [[SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super NES]]
* ''VideoGame/SaturnBomberman'' (1996) - SegaSaturn
* ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman 64}}'' (1997) - {{Nintendo 64}}

* ''VideoGame/BombermanWorld'' (1998) - {{PlayStation}}
* ''VideoGame/BombermanMax'' series (2000 - 2002) - GameBoyColor, GameBoyAdvance
* ''VideoGame/BombermanLand'' series (2000 - 2008) - [=PlayStation=] (Japan-only), {{PlayStation 2}} (Japan-only); NintendoDS, {{Wii}}, [[PlaystationPortable PSP]]
* ''VideoGame/BombermanGeneration'' (2002) - NintendoGamecube

* ''VideoGame/BombermanActZero'' (2006) - XBox360

* ''VideoGame/SuperBomberman series'' (1993-1997) - [[SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super NES]]

* ''VideoGame/BombermanJetters'' (2002) - Nintendo Gamecube, {{PlayStation 2}} (Japan-only)

!!Notable games in this franchise include:

* [[TheRightHandOfDoom The Left Hand Of Doom]]: Bomberman had an oversized claw glove on his left hand in ''Bomberman: Act Zero''.

* ContinuityReboot: ''Bomberman: Act Zero'' was meant to take the franchise in a DarkerAndEdgier direction. [[EpicFail It wasn't well-received.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Used as a marketing ploy for ''Bomberman: Act Zero''.

* BigDamnVillains: [[spoiler:Regulus/Bulzeeb in ''The Second Attack!'' Zoniha is about to kamikaze Bomberman after losing when he shows up and cancels her attack. Then he loudly declares that [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou he's the only one that gets to defeat Bomberman]] right before making her one with a black hole.]]

* BonusLevelOfHeaven: ''Bomberman 64''.

* ChekhovsGun: When [[spoiler:Regulus/Bulzeeb saves Bomberman by cancelling out Zoniha's light attack with his dark bombs. During the true final battle, The Angel of Light and Shadow uses a similar attack as she did, and using the dark bombs cancels it out.]]

* CowardlySidekick: Pommy.

* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Bomberman does not get anywhere with Lilith]] in ''The Second Attack!''.

* DoNotCallMePaul: Regulus in ''The Second Attack''.

* DownerEnding: The BadEnding for ''The Second Attack'' more or less implies that [[spoiler:the universe and all life will be destroyed by the God of Chaos. To say nothing of how the Astral Knights stay dead, Rukifellth is engulfed by Sthertoth, and Lilith stays behind on the Warship Noah to be with Rukifellth just as it's being destroyed, leaving Bomberman, Pommy, and Sthertoth as the only surviving characters.]]

* {{God}}: [[spoiler:In ''The Second Attack!'', you have to fight ''The Angel of Light and Shadow'', who created the universe, as the TrueFinalBoss.]]

* GravityMaster:
** ''Bomberman 64: The Second Attack!'' has the title character sucked into a black hole, which is really created by a gravity generator that needs to be destroyed.
** Regulus' bombs create black holes.

* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Parodied in one of the bonus scenes from ''Bomberman 64: The Second Attack!'':
-->"It's not much fun making speeches about my plans without an audience..."

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:The bad ending of ''The Second Attack!''.]]

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: [[spoiler:Regulus]] goes as far as [[spoiler:killing his own teammates]] to ensure that he would be the one to defeat Bomberman.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The pre-boss battle music from ''Bomberman 64: The Second Attack'' sounds almost exactly like the ''JamesBond'' theme. ALMOST!

* ThirdPersonPerson: [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "Pommy's name is Pommy!"]]

* UnrealisticBlackHole: Black hole bombs in ''Bomberman 64: The Second Attack!''.
** For that matter, the black hole Bomberman and everything else is stuck in during that same game, because everything isn't crushed into a very dense sphere in the middle. The antagonists even have these Black Hole Generators that must be destroyed, which may be why they don't act like actual black holes.

* AxCrazy: Assault Bomber. From the moment he crashes into the arena in a freaking ''meteor'' and you hear his insane cackle, to him flying all over the arena shooting enough bombs to level a small town without much care for anything resembling accuracy, it's pretty clear that the guy is absolutely unhinged.
--> [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Wg9i3UNOY#t=13s So.. are you BOMBERMAAAN!?!?]]

** Bomberman can do this in ''Generation'' as well.

* ChekhovsGun: When [[spoiler:Regulus/Beelzebub saves Bomberman by cancelling out Zoniha's light attack with his dark bombs. During the true final battle, The Angel of Light and Shadow uses a similar attack as she did, and using the dark bombs cancels it out.]]

** Let's not forget [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvXKL7Ei--s CONSTRUCTOOOOOOOOOOR X]] in ''Generations''. (It's doubtful that [[LargeHam he'd let us]].)

* TheDarkChick: Artemis in ''Bomberman 64'', Natia (from Devils of Garaden) from ''Bomberman Hero'', Beauty Bomber from Crush Bombers in ''Bomberman Generation'', Mermaid Bomber in ''Bomberman Jetters''.

* DeadCharacterWalking: In most of the newer VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} games, there's usually an option to allow defeated players to harrass the living ones by riding around the edge of the stage in a hovering vehicle and throwing bombs at them. In some of the games, managing to directly kill one of the players this way could also revive you and let you resume playing normally, hopefully not getting killed in turn by the same player who you just offed.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:Altair.]]

* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Sirius. Hoo boy.]]
* EvilLaugh: Bagular in ''HERO'', Rukifellth and Zoniha in ''The Second Attack!'', [[spoiler: Sirius]] in ''Bomberman 64''.

* GiantSpider: Mantis in ''Bomberman 64''.

* LetsPlay: One for Bomberman Tournament is available [[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBE0E97B19D6A3007 by Hawk3y389]]
** [[http://lparchive.org/Bomberman-Hero/ Bomberman Hero]] and [[http://lparchive.org/Bomberman-Jetters/ Bomberman Jetters]] Lets Plays are available by TheStrawhatNO, hosted on the Let's Play Archive.

* MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: An interesting case in ''Bomberman 64''. [[spoiler:Though Sirius actually does a great job at posing as your ally, Hudson Soft kind of ruins his disguise with their descriptions of him in the game and the manual by constantly questioning his true intentions. The fact that the level where Sirius tests Bomberman's battle skills is titled "Friend or Foe?" doesn't exactly help his disguise either.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: To be fair, [[spoiler:you probably didn't expect Sirius to betray you]] in ''Bomberman 64''.

* OhCrap: In the multiplayer mode of ''VideoGame/BombermanJetters'', the characters will say some things when they realize they're stuck between bombs, like:

* StellarName: ''Bomberman 64'' features characters named Sirius, Orion, Regulus, Altair, and Vega.

* VehicularAssault: The second Orion battle in ''Bomberman 64''.

* YouExclamation: [[spoiler:Sirius to Regulus]], before the '''final''' final battle in ''Bomberman 64''.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Spoken word for word by [[spoiler:Sirius to Bomberman after Altair has been killed.]]

* ''VideoGame/BombermanHero'' (1998)

* ''VideoGame/BombermanJetters'' (2002) - Gamecube, {{PlayStation 2}} (Japan-only)

* AmbiguouslyGay: Nitros from Bomberman Hero

* BonusStage: ''Bomberman Hero'' has one after each of the first 4 bosses, in the form of simple timed areas with gems, power-ups and 1-ups to grab.

* BossOnlyLevel: Pretty much every boss in ''64''.

* CatGirl: Natia from ''HERO'' is a [[FetishFuel sexily sadistic]] example. With weird hair, too... and a GIGANTIC head.

* ChasingYourTail: The Sphinx-like Bolban in ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} HERO'' has an armored front and a vulnerable tail. In the second battle, both his frontal shield and his breath weapon are disabled, but his missiles are harder to avoid because you're fighting him in an underwater tunnel.

* DolledUpInstallment: ''Bomberman Hero'' was originally going to be a new Bonk game, but at some point or another the staff decided it'd have more mass appeal as a Bomberman game. Sure explains why it's a mainstream 3D platformer where Bomberman can actually jump on his own.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Natia's apperance from Bomberman Hero. Also she carries a whip.

* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: The Evil Bomber of ''Bomberman Hero'' (Devil Bomber in Japan) was originally the villain of ''[[GameBoy Bomberman GB 3]]'' a game never released in America.
** Bagular, easily the closest thing the entire series has to a BigBad, barely averts this by appearing in ''Mega Bomberman''. However his appearance in ''Bomberman Hero'' is based off his appearance in ''Super Bomberman 3'', which was unreleased in North America. In fact, nearly all of the games with Bagular never came out in the USA; pretty much no-one recognized him in ''Bomberman Hero.''

* MusicalNod: In ''Bomberman Hero'', the menu theme is lifted from straight from the Famicom/NES [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNB8V1NPYc0 Bomberman]].

* RecurringBoss: Nitros in HERO. For the first three planets, he's fought at the end of the second area, but on Mazone, he's fought at the beginning of the third instead.

* SecretLevel: ''Bomberman Hero'' has a surprising amount of these, including [[spoiler:revisiting a flying and underwater stage on foot as the Golden Bomber, a snowboard race against a snowman enemy, a second collection quest, and a few completely new stages accessed by mashing Start as you boot up the N64]].

* SingleBiomePlanet: ''Bomberman HERO'' features these with Primus (a swampy/forested planet) and Kanatia (the LethalLavaLand and BuildLikeAnEgyptian mixture, although there are a couple of crystal cave levels there). However, it appears that planet Bomber is very Earth-like and Mazone had a small jungle at its equator (considering it was a snowy planet).

* UnderwaterBossBattle: The rematch with Bolban in ''Bomberman Hero'' takes place underwater, using the Bomber Marine.
* UnexpectedShmupLevel: Some of the underwater and air levels in ''Bomberman Hero''.

!!Contains examples of:

* OneHitPointWonder: In the early games, getting caught in explosions or [[CollisionDamage colliding with enemies]] meant instant explodey death. Grabbing the Heart power-up granted you one hit of MercyInvincibility (although you can pick it up again after it's blasted out of you in some games). Later games just give you a heart-based health meter ala TheLegendOfZelda, complete with {{Heart Container}}s either purchased from shops or hidden in the game world.

* TimedMission: All of the classic 2D games which don't play like "''Bomberman'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''TheLegendOfZelda''" have a timer. If Bomberman doesn't complete the stage in time, he spontaneously dies for no logical reason. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in all of the 3D games, for the most part.

* MarketBasedTitle: ''Bomberman Tournament'' is known as ''Bomberman Story'' in Japan. It's a more fitting title if you ask this troper, since "Tournament" would imply more emphasis on online multiplayer with singleplayer that boils down to "multiplayer with bots". However, this game is more "''Bomberman'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''TheLegendOfZelda'' with a side of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''" in terms of the singleplayer... not that some people even bother with singleplayer in a ''Bomberman'' game.

* EverythingsBetterWithKangaroos: Started showing up with ''Bomberman '94''[=/=]''Mega Bomberman'' and have practically become a mainstay since then. They're [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter even more adorable]] and [[PowerupMount also give you a ride]], and for whatever reason, [[WhaleEgg hatch from giant eggs.]]

** Pommy is an expy to both {{Kirby}} and [[{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]].

* MarketBasedTitle: ''Bomberman Tournament'' is known as ''Bomberman Story'' in Japan. It's a more fitting title if you ask this troper, since "Tournament" would imply more emphasis on online multiplayer with singleplayer that boils down to "multiplayer with bots". However, this game is more "''Bomberman'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''TheLegendOfZelda'' with a side of ''{{Pokemon}}''" in terms of the singleplayer... not that some people even bother with singleplayer in a ''Bomberman'' game.

* SpinningOutOfHere: In ''Bomberman Tournament'', each [[{{Mon}} Karabon]] has its own special ability that can help Bomberman when exploring (some are passive, others need to be activated manually). Pommy (your first ally and a CaptainErsatz of {{Kirby}} and [[{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]]) has the ability to transport Bomberman to any (major) town he's previously visited. Using this power causes Bomberman to spin rapidly before he's launched into the sky and lands in his intended destination.

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-->''Bomberman, Bomberman''
-->''Mass destruction across the land.''
-->''Makes a bomb, any size.''
-->''And he's yours, to customize.''
-->''Look out! Here comes the Bomberman!''
-->''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-06yRkXgDTA Bomberman 64 commercial]], [[FilkSong sung to the tune of]] {{Spider-Man}}''

* AxCrazy: Assault Bomber. From the moment he crashes into the arena in a freking ''meteor'' and you hear his insane cackle, to him flying all over the arena shooting enough bombs to level a small town without much care for anything resembling accuracy, it's pretty clear that the guy is absolutely unhinged.

* TheAnimeOfTheGame: ''BombermanJetters''. Also ''{{Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden}}'', which predates ''Jetters''.

* NoExportForYou: ''Super Bomberman 3'' through ''5'' and ''Panic Bomber W'', the Japanese ''Bomberman 64'' (as noted above, our ''Bomberman 64'' is their ''Baku Bomberman''), The ''BombermanJetters'' anime, and everything ''{{Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden}}'' related, for starters.

* OhCrap: In the multiplayer mode of ''BombermanJetters'', the characters will say some things when they realize they're stuck between bombs, like:

** Dr. Mechadoc in the ''[[BombermanJetters Jetters]]'' game.

** [[http://lparchive.org/Bomberman-Hero/ A Bomberman Hero]] LetsPlay is available by TheStrawhatNO, hosted on the Let's Play Archive. They are also in the middle of a BombermanJetters LetsPlay.

* MemeticMutation: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkBnkX3R1hQ Constructor X and his Laser Blade.]]

* TheJimmyHartVersion: The pre-boss battle music from ''Bomberman 64: The Second Attack'' sounds almost exactly like the ''JamesBond'' theme. ALMOST!
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbNlF6rdvcE This track]] from the original sounds like something out of ParasiteEve.

* OddNameOut: ''Atomic Punk'', ''Dynablaster'', ''Eric and the Floaters''.

* ChasingYourTail: The Sphinx-like Bolban in ''{{Bomberman}} HERO'' has an armored front and a vulnerable tail. In the second battle, both his frontal shield and his breath weapon are disabled, but his missiles are harder to avoid because you're fighting him in an underwater tunnel.

* ContemptibleCover: The U.S. release for the first [=TurboGrafx=] ''{{Bomberman}}'' had [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/31/Bomberman_(TurboGrafx-16)_boxart.jpg this]] as its cover.

* DeadCharacterWalking: In most of the newer {{Bomberman}} games, there's usually an option to allow defeated players to harrass the living ones by riding around the edge of the stage in a hovering vehicle and throwing bombs at them. In some of the games, managing to directly kill one of the players this way could also revive you and let you resume playing normally, hopefully not getting killed in turn by the same player who you just offed.

* DummiedOut: ''Atomic {{Bomberman}}'' came with modding tools, making DummiedOut portions of the game easy to find - including unused, profanity-laced vocal taunts.