Classic NES Series: Bomberman

Office workers, unite! Bomberman calls for your aid.

?The? seminal action/puzzle game from the mid-1980s, Bomberman is fundamentally one of the most highly addictive and life-consuming games ever to be produced. In the game, you must navigate Bomberman through 50 mazelike subterranean levels to freedom from his hated Taskmasters, who have sent an army of stooges to prevent him from escaping. Bomberman must create carnage by bombing everything in sight to reach the door to salvation, which can only be entered when all the enemies on the level have been defeated?but the door is initially hidden in the walls of the levels, and there?s a finite time limit. When the clock runs out, the Taskmaster sends in an elite squad of Pontan enemies to destroy you.

Bomberman holds a special place in the hearts of any sunlight-deprived, recirculated-air office worker. The game has some disturbing parallels to the everyday nine-to-five plight of the cubical dweller: The urges to escape the dreaded Taskmasters, bomb the walls around you (your cubicle), and escape an enclosed sunless environment, and the need to complete tasks under an allotted time period while being threatened by the Taskmasters comical flunkies who appear clownish in their stoogery?what a perfect game to play while killing time at work.

Bomberman has a peculiar effect on players?it?s a game that trains you. As you?re drawn into its simple and diverse gameplay, you?ll find yourself gleefully blasting away, setting traps, and setting delayed multiple-row bomb blasts with the skills of a calculating superhuman mad genius. While not as advanced or socially oriented as the recent Bomberman releases, players will find the original Bomberman pleasantly and subversively enjoyable

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