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Bomberman: Panic Bomber

It is a "falling blocks" puzzle game based on the Bomberman franchise. The goal of the game is essentially to cause your opponent to lose by causing their gameplay field to fill to the top with objects. You do…

22 December 1994

Bomberman: Panic Bomber is a puzzle developed by Hudson Soft, released 22 December 1994 on Wii U, Wii, FM Towns and Sharp X68000.

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What Bomberman: Panic Bomber is

Bomberman: Panic Bomber is a puzzle game developed by Hudson Soft and released in 1994. It was published by ASCII Entertainment. It is available on Wii U, Wii, FM Towns, Sharp X68000 and Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD.

The premise, in the publisher's words

It is a "falling blocks" puzzle game based on the Bomberman franchise. The goal of the game is essentially to cause your opponent to lose by causing their gameplay field to fill to the top with objects. You do this by causing chains of bombs to explode, sending useless rubble over to your opponent's field, which they must then remove themselves. Bombs are earned by causing chains of three identical blocks to disappear. Bombs can only be blown up with an explosion from a lit bomb, which falls from the top of the screen every so often. If the player causes enough damage, they can eventually earn a giant bomb, which will remove a large amount of debris from the playing field, and cause their…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Bomberman series

Bomberman: Panic Bomber is the 20th of 158 entries we hold in the Bomberman series. The next entry was Mega Bomberman in 1994.

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What it launched against

Bomberman: Panic Bomber launched on 22 December 1994, within three weeks of Tekken, Umihara Kawase, Breath of Fire II and King's Field.

Released around the same time: Tekken, Umihara Kawase, Breath of Fire II, King's Field.

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When did Bomberman: Panic Bomber come out?
Bomberman: Panic Bomber was released on 22 December 1994 for Wii U, Wii, FM Towns, Sharp X68000 and Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD.

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