Classic NES Series - Bomberman ROM

Classic NES Series: Bomberman is a port of the original Nintendo Entertainment System classic Bomberman. The original game was developed and published by Hudson, though this title is published by Nintendo. It was released alongside a variety of other games in the Classic NES Series in 2004. The game was also released in Japan as part of the Famicom Mini series.

Bomberman is most known for the NES version released in Japan on December 19, 1985 and in North America in January 1989. Hudson Soft’s director of research and development, Shinichi Nakamoto, commented in a 1995 interview that “I personally believe that the Famicom version of Bomberman is the one and only version of the game.” This version was ported back to the MSX the following year as Bomberman Special.

Bomberman’s appearance in this game (Hudson Soft re-used an enemy graphic taken from their own 1984 NES/Famicom port of Broderbund’s Lode Runner) is an early version of Bomberman’s more famous design, a robotic anime-like character with a pink antenna. The game was also released on Game Boy as a “Game B” mode of the game Atomic Punk. In 2004, this version of Bomberman was re-released for the Game Boy Advance as part of the Famicom Mini series in Japan and the Classic NES Series in North America and Europe. It was released in the same year for the N-Gage.