Atomic Bomberman (1997) for PC.
Atomic Bomberman (1997) for PC.
Atomic Bomberman (1997) for PC.
One of the rare Bomberman entries not made in Japan—this one came from Interplay under license from Hudson. And it’s still the only Bomberman exclusive to Windows 95, never released on console.
The look is pure late-90s PC: pre-rendered 3D Bombermen, metallic and chunky, with full 3D cutscenes. It even has voice packs recorded by Billy West and Charlie Adler—complete with a pile of unused lines, some of them surprisingly profane.
Gameplay, though, stays true to the formula. Drop bombs, trap opponents, blow open arenas. It’s fast, chaotic, and faithful to Hudson’s originals. Where it breaks new ground is scale: up to ten players could go head-to-head across a network or crowded around one machine, and the disc even shipped with editors for maps and custom assets.
Critics at the time found it fun but messy—praising the multiplayer mayhem while dinging the cluttered visuals and buggy online. Today it stands as an oddball in the series: a Westernized Bomberman that kept the heart of the game while draping it in Interplay’s very 1997 sense of humour.