After they rescue her, Bagura sends the duo to a dangerous pocket dimension. The two creatively named heroes, White Bomberman and Black Bomberman, then rush in to save the day. There, Bagura kidnaps Pretty Bomber, who's a pretty cute bomber. Anyway, in this game, Bagura sets his evil sights on the home of the Bomberman people, appropriately called Planet Bomber. For the purposes of this review, I'll be referring to him as Bagura. Depending on the game, his name fluctuates between Bagura, Bagular, Burglar, or Bugler. However, the localization teams can't come to a consensus on how his name is spelled, so it tends to differ from game to game. However, it strangely still has nothing on most of the console incarnations of Bomberman at the time, like Super Bomberman 1 through 4 on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Famicom.Īntagonists differ from one Bomberman game to the next, but there is one who appears in many of the titles, who's likely supposed to be the main baddie of the franchise. At any rate, Neo Bomberman is a step up above all the Atomic Punks in most ways. Note that this Atomic Punk is a completely different game from the one on Game Boy, although that was also a Bomberman title. Not counting Panic Bomber, Neo Bomberman is the third arcade game featuring traditional Bomberman mechanics, following Atomic Punk in 1991 and its sequel, New Atomic Punk: Global Conquest in 1992. However, Panic Bomber was a Tetris-like spinoff, whereas Neo Bomberman is a more traditional Bomberman game. It's the second Bomberman game released for the Neo Geo hardware, the other being Panic Bomber, which was released in 1994. As its name implies, this is a Bomberman game made specifically for the Neo Geo arcade hardware.
Neo Bomberman is an arcade video game developed by Hudson Soft and published by SNK in Japan on May 1, 1997.