The White Bomber, debuting in 1983, as rendered in artwork for 2017/18's Super Bomberman R. — AFP Relaxnews
First released in July 1983 and now with over 70 games in the wild, the Bomberman franchise is 35 years old in 2018.
With its traditional grid-based layout, Bomberman features a network of paths and obstacles, some destructible, and a population of monsters – or other players – preventing the player from completing each level.
A simple concept well suited to both solo play and frantic multiplayer jostles, the franchise as a whole has received over 50 entries to date following a July 1985 debut on Japanese home computers.
The original was re-released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985 then re-booted as a TurboGrafx-16 classic (later on Amiga, MS-DOS PC and Atari ST as Dyna Blaster in Europe), but the arrival of 16-bit consoles introduced a new level of visual creativity.
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