Not only “the best Bomberman battle mode by far” AND “the best overall bomberman game”… … but also “the best 5th gen party game by far” And one of the greatest “simple to pick up, all ages, multiplayer party games of all time”, provided you have 6-8 Saturn controllers and at least one multi tap.
The battle mode of the PC Engine BM94 is so much better. The levels in SB for multiplayer are all very basic. In BM94 you have really hilarious arena's that give tons of fun with friends. Like the super speed arena, the one with teleports or the one with full-length explosions. Also the AI of the enemies is more fun. They are more random in their behaviour, where on the Saturn they feel like they calculate every move. Also menu's work fast on 94, where in SB you spend so much time waiting and selecting. Last benefit of BM94 is that you have much nicer characters to pick: they are all Bomberman, yet funny, like a mini-bomberman, cop-bomberman, a punk-bomberman, a blimp-bomberman, a girl-bomerman and more. And the 10 player mode of SB is just a pain to watch. Such an ugly level in an otherwise great looking game. And 5 player is more than enough. Try to squeeze 8 in front of that Trinitron.... If you can find that many friends uberhaupt.
@@2kBofFun CD or HuCard ? I’ve never played that one, and haven’t played or seen a TG16 in many years. Is the same 94 title on SNES or another console in its same battle mode glory ?
@@AyeYoYoYooo 94 only exists as Japanese HuCard. You see splotches of content in SBM 4 and SMB5, but none of those has the overall coherence and quality of 94. The Battle mode of SBM5 is pretty close, it has the weird levels, but it only does 5-player, on the PCE you can play 2-5, and the sound is annoying on the SNES.Similar to BM '94, SBM5 is also Japan only.
I haven't played Saturn Bombemran in a long while, but I remember the two things that made me check it out were the Master mode (which I never really played but thought it was cool to have that challenge mode with Bomberman wearing a gi as if it was a martial arts movie), and of course the 10-player widescreen mode that had me forever dreaming about playing with that many people at once. Closest I got was a 7-8 player Bomberman Blast game, which was undeniably awesome of course, and playing Power Bomberman online with 6-7 players (that fangame is def worth talking about with how it might as well be a "Smash Ultimate" of Bomberman games with all the references, powerups, and mainly that it also features a 12-player wide field mode a la Saturn Bomberman...there's a lot of stuff that is clearly based off it in there). There's also Atomic Bomberman which would be funny to check out for you; I hold a level of nostalgia for it and it is certainly the fastest official game with how everyone moves so fast from second 1, and can be either hilarious or annoying to have all the voiced taunts and 90s CGI while playing. But I remember that the second reason for little me to try that one out was because of being the only other official game outside of Sat (and the currently unaccessible, unemulated Hi-Ten Bomberman) that could handle 10 players, even though unfortunately capped at max 5 connected PCs online (technically could still do 10 if there were 2 players in each PC. That was crazy to watch though with the pace AND fields *not being made bigger to accomodate*.
I think it is a step down form Bomberman 94, the granddaddy, the epitome, the G.O.A.T. Why? First of all the way it feels. Bomberman is too slow in Saturn BM, and you get many self-kills because of that. Also there are some really nasty enemies in story mode, the blue blob that jumps over your explosions for example. Then there's the level progressions and boss fights. You can't beat a remote controlled banana by a monkey, impossible. Third annoyance is the music. We went from a 200kB wavetable staple to a 600MB CD track that fails to deliver proper earworms. Especially the multiplayer soundtrack is annoying as heck. Cute it was the NES track remixed, but that is not fun with friends for more than 5 minutes. Last reason why BM94 is better than Saturn is the multiplayer game. BM94 has way cooler arena's with special features like infinibombs or turbo speed. On Saturn BM they are all function the same. And the player sprites are cooler. On BM94 you get to choose from 10 bomberman variations like mini-me, punkhead, cop or blimp. On SMB it is just regular bomberman and friends. Very boring.
This used to be my favorite game back in the days ！ giving me good memories
Not only “the best Bomberman battle mode by far” AND “the best overall bomberman game”…
… but also “the best 5th gen party game by far”
And one of the greatest “simple to pick up, all ages, multiplayer party games of all time”, provided you have 6-8 Saturn controllers and at least one multi tap.
The battle mode of the PC Engine BM94 is so much better. The levels in SB for multiplayer are all very basic. In BM94 you have really hilarious arena's that give tons of fun with friends. Like the super speed arena, the one with teleports or the one with full-length explosions. Also the AI of the enemies is more fun. They are more random in their behaviour, where on the Saturn they feel like they calculate every move. Also menu's work fast on 94, where in SB you spend so much time waiting and selecting. Last benefit of BM94 is that you have much nicer characters to pick: they are all Bomberman, yet funny, like a mini-bomberman, cop-bomberman, a punk-bomberman, a blimp-bomberman, a girl-bomerman and more. And the 10 player mode of SB is just a pain to watch. Such an ugly level in an otherwise great looking game. And 5 player is more than enough. Try to squeeze 8 in front of that Trinitron.... If you can find that many friends uberhaupt.
@@2kBofFun CD or HuCard ? I’ve never played that one, and haven’t played or seen a TG16 in many years. Is the same 94 title on SNES or another console in its same battle mode glory ?
@@AyeYoYoYooo 94 only exists as Japanese HuCard. You see splotches of content in SBM 4 and SMB5, but none of those has the overall coherence and quality of 94. The Battle mode of SBM5 is pretty close, it has the weird levels, but it only does 5-player, on the PCE you can play 2-5, and the sound is annoying on the SNES.Similar to BM '94, SBM5 is also Japan only.
I haven't played Saturn Bombemran in a long while, but I remember the two things that made me check it out were the Master mode (which I never really played but thought it was cool to have that challenge mode with Bomberman wearing a gi as if it was a martial arts movie), and of course the 10-player widescreen mode that had me forever dreaming about playing with that many people at once. Closest I got was a 7-8 player Bomberman Blast game, which was undeniably awesome of course, and playing Power Bomberman online with 6-7 players (that fangame is def worth talking about with how it might as well be a "Smash Ultimate" of Bomberman games with all the references, powerups, and mainly that it also features a 12-player wide field mode a la Saturn Bomberman...there's a lot of stuff that is clearly based off it in there).
There's also Atomic Bomberman which would be funny to check out for you; I hold a level of nostalgia for it and it is certainly the fastest official game with how everyone moves so fast from second 1, and can be either hilarious or annoying to have all the voiced taunts and 90s CGI while playing. But I remember that the second reason for little me to try that one out was because of being the only other official game outside of Sat (and the currently unaccessible, unemulated Hi-Ten Bomberman) that could handle 10 players, even though unfortunately capped at max 5 connected PCs online (technically could still do 10 if there were 2 players in each PC. That was crazy to watch though with the pace AND fields *not being made bigger to accomodate*.
Its the Best Classic Bomberman Game! 10/10 in Multiplayer
I think it is a step down form Bomberman 94, the granddaddy, the epitome, the G.O.A.T. Why? First of all the way it feels. Bomberman is too slow in Saturn BM, and you get many self-kills because of that. Also there are some really nasty enemies in story mode, the blue blob that jumps over your explosions for example. Then there's the level progressions and boss fights. You can't beat a remote controlled banana by a monkey, impossible. Third annoyance is the music. We went from a 200kB wavetable staple to a 600MB CD track that fails to deliver proper earworms. Especially the multiplayer soundtrack is annoying as heck. Cute it was the NES track remixed, but that is not fun with friends for more than 5 minutes. Last reason why BM94 is better than Saturn is the multiplayer game. BM94 has way cooler arena's with special features like infinibombs or turbo speed. On Saturn BM they are all function the same. And the player sprites are cooler. On BM94 you get to choose from 10 bomberman variations like mini-me, punkhead, cop or blimp. On SMB it is just regular bomberman and friends. Very boring.