Bomber Man World

Bomber Man World (ボンバーマンワールド, Bonbā Man Wārudo) is a 1992 video game released by Irem under license from Hudson Soft for arcades.[1] It is part of the Bomberman series. It was the second Bomberman game to be released for arcades, preceded by Bomberman (1991), which was also released by Irem.

This article is about the arcade game. For the PlayStation game, see Bomberman World.
Bomber Man World
Title screen
Developer(s)Irem
Publisher(s)Irem
SeriesBomberman
Platform(s)Arcade
Release
Genre(s)Action
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade systemIrem M-97
CPUV30 (at 8 Mhz)
SoundZ80 (at 3.579545 Mhz)

This game is called New Atomic Punk - Global Quest/Atomic Punk 2 in North America, and New DynaBlaster - Global Quest in Europe. The North American version is called Atomic Punk 2, but it shows the text New Atomic Punk - Global Quest ingame.[2]

Gameplay
Gameplay screenshot.

When all enemies are destroyed the player automatically goes to the next stage. Items are lost after each stage, reducing the inventory to one bomb, and the default blast radius and walking speed. There are six worlds with six levels in each; after every fifth level there is a Bonus Stage, wherein soft blocks contain many points items and power ups.

Development and release

Reception
Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
AllGame[3]
Game Zone[4]
Sinclair User76/100[5]

In Japan, Game Machine listed Bomber Man World on their July 15, 1992 issue as being the tenth most-successful table arcade unit of the year, outperforming titles such as King of the Monsters 2 and Football Frenzy.[6] Gary Harrod of British magazine Sinclair User praised the visuals and gameplay, stating that "this may be a simple formula game but it's still good fun to play".[5] Andreas Knauf of German magazine Video Games gave the title a positive outlook.[7] GamesMaster gave it a mixed outlook.[8]

Notes
    gollark: I just download anything interesting on YT etc. and all the stuff from some youtubers.
    gollark: I have something like 120GB of random video stuff versus 5GB of music, 3GB of book stuff and 1GB of notes/personal pictures.
    gollark: Presumably they can just run everything possible off 12V, and simplify cabling.
    gollark: Boards will apparently have buck converters for 5V/3.3V.
    gollark: There's that 4-pin connector for extra CPU power, which is 12V, so I assume they mostly use that.

    References
    1. "Be Mega New Video Games: 『ボンバーマンワールド』". Beep! MegaDrive (in Japanese). No. 35. SoftBank Creative. August 1992. p. 33.
    2. Rhoades, Jason (1998). "Atomic Punk Global Quest - Overview". AllGame. All Media Network. Archived from the original on 2014-11-14. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
    3. Rhoades, Jason (1998). "Bomber Man World - Overview". AllGame. All Media Network. Archived from the original on 2014-11-14. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
    4. Lopez, Amaya (October 1992). "Kill Zone - Bomberman World". Game Zone. Vol. 1 no. 12. Dennis Publishing. p. 82.
    5. Harrod, Gary (September 1993). "Coin Ops: Dyna Blaster - Global Quest". Sinclair User. No. 127. EMAP. p. 44.
    6. "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 430. Amusement Press, Inc. 15 July 1992. p. 33.
    7. Knauf, Andreas (October 1992). "Arcade-News - Geschicktes Händchen". Video Games (in German). No. 11. Future-Verlag. pp. 144–145.
    8. "Arcadia - Dynablaster: Global Quest (Irem)". GamesMaster. No. 4. Future Publishing. April 1993. p. 24.
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