![]() To deal some real damage, you’ll have to make as many matches and combos as you can, then wait until a bomb with a lit fuse appears and use that to blow up as many unlit bombs as possible. The better the combo, the more bombs appear, making combo skills as important as usual for the genre if you want to be an effective combatant. Instead, matching Bomberman heads will create unlit bombs at the bottom of the screen. Three or more of the same color make a match and will get cleared out (this can also be done diagonally), but clearing out heads won’t actually send garbage (depicted as exploded bombs with cute googly eyes here) to the opposing player. First, you need to stack the multi-colored Bomberman heads that fall from the top of the screen. Much like Baku Baku Animalor Pac-Attack, gameplay in Panic Bomber is a two-step process. Your progress through the story mode is depicted on a colorful map that Bomberman crosses to encounter new opponents, which does a lot to add to the scope of the game – Panic Bomber feels bigger and more robust than many of its contemporaries while also retaining much of the main series’ flavor thanks to its presentation and diversity of modes. Mechado, a future villain that appears in Saturn Bomberman and Bomberman Jetters. They’re not the same, but it’s possible that this scientist was a template of sorts for Dr. Bagura is here once again to try and put a stop to Bomberman’s fun, though he’s not the only villain you’ll face you’ll also get to encounter Golem Bomber, Pretty Bomber, Black Bomberman, and a new scientist that never appears again. Over the course of 16 levels, you’ll encounter several foes from almost every Bomberman game up to Super Bomberman 2, such as Ballom, Telpio, and Pass. The PC Engine CD version of Panic Bomber, the first to hit the market, features little in the way of plot and instead focuses more on celebrating the franchise’s popular characters by putting them all in one place. ![]() While some future Bomberman spin-offs failed to get more than a few iterations at most, Panic Bomber managed to get unique entries through the early 2000s and still endures to a small degree thanks to relatively recent ports on things like the Wii U Virtual Console in 2017 and the PC Engine Mini in 2020. It might sound like an unusual idea, taking a franchise that’s partially about destroying blocks and instead asking players to stack them for a bit before letting loose with their explosives, but Panic Bomber manages to establish a distinct identity for itself that makes it worth visiting even today. ![]() For the first Bomberman spin-off since RoboWarrior, Hudson Soft decided to take a crack at the ever-reliable “falling block” puzzle game genre, specifically ones in the vein of Puyo Puyo. ![]()
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