Wario Blast Featuring Bomberman! ROM

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Wario Blast Featuring Bomberman! is a crossover game between the Wario franchise and Hudson Soft’s Bomberman series that was released in 1994 and 1995 in North America and Europe, respectively. The game is a reskinned version of Bomberman GB, which was released in Japan in August 1994. The Wario series theme was exclusively added to Western releases. Aside from Wario’s presence, the game is mostly unchanged and plays like other Bomberman titles.

The Bomberman GB released in the West is actually the Japanese Bomberman GB 2. Wario, in his constant search for new lands to conquer and treasures to gain, has found the extra-dimensional portal that links his world with the one that Bomberman inhabits. Thinking that the Madbombers will make a nice addition to his legions of mindless minions (as well as a new source of funds for his nefarious schemes), Wario steps through the gate… and soon finds that the Madbombers are not quite the dimwitted flunkies he originally thought them to be!

The player can choose to play as either Wario or Bomberman, but this does not change any aspects of gameplay, other than reversing the passwords for each level. There are eight rounds in total, including three regular levels and one boss level per round. The game shares its objective with other Bomberman games. The player has to blow up between one to three opponent(s) via the use of bombs to advance, while they try to do the same to the player.

The entire game is played from a top-down perspective. The player maneuvers around a grid-like playing field, setting off bombs to blow up unsuspecting enemies, and destroy blocks to clear the way and to reveal occasional Normal Items. The player wins by defeating the enemy Madbombers (which take on the appearance of the character not chosen). Every level is played with a best-of-3 rule.

If the player wins two times, they gain access to the next level. Failure to do so results in a Game Over. When playing the game on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System with a Super Game Boy, an additional multiplayer mode for up to four players is available, known as the Battle Mode. In this mode, two or more players are able to play against each other, with up to four players being supported using the Super Multitap.