Introduction Hudson Soft released Super Bomberman 3 for the Super Famicom in 1995, and it reached Europe the same year. In the story mode, Bomberman sets out to stop Professor Bagura and the Five Dastardly Bombers, who have returned to cause trouble across five planets. Each stage is a maze of soft blocks that must…
Introduction Hudson Soft released Super Bomberman 2 for the Super Nintendo in 1994. In the story mode, Bomberman is captured by the Five Dastardly Bombers, a group of evil Bombers who want to conquer the galaxy, and he must escape and defeat them one by one across their worlds. The story mode is a single-player…
Introduction Pang! 3 was released in arcades in 1995 by Mitchell Corporation, the third main entry in the balloon-popping series that began with Pang. The rules are simple and addictive: bouncing balloons fill the screen, and firing at one splits it into two smaller balloons, which continue to split until they disappear. Touching a balloon…
Introduction Hudson Soft released Super Bomberman for the Super Nintendo in 1993, the first Bomberman game on the console and the one that turned the series into a party staple. In the story mode, White Bomberman and Black Bomberman team up to stop the villains Carat Diamond and Dr. Mook, whose army of robotic bombers…
Introduction Lode Runner began as a 1983 computer game created by Doug Smith and published by Broderbund, and Hudson Soft brought it to the Famicom in 1984, with the NES version reaching North America in 1987. The player controls a runner who must collect every pile of gold on the screen while avoiding robotic guards….
Introduction Money Puzzle Exchanger was developed by Face and released for the Neo Geo arcade system in 1997. Its twist on the competitive falling-block formula is built around Japanese coins: coins of 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 500 are pulled down from the top of the playfield, and the player gathers them and pushes…
Introduction Nintendo released Wario’s Woods in 1994 for both the NES and the Super Nintendo, and the NES version is known as the last game Nintendo itself published for the console in North America. Wario has taken over the Peaceful Woods and filled it with monsters, and Toad sets out to clear them with help…
Introduction HAL Laboratory released Adventures of Lolo 3 for the NES in 1991, the final entry in the western Lolo trilogy. King Egger has once again turned the people of Eden to stone, and this time both Lolo and Lala are playable, with the player able to switch between them. Instead of a simple series…
Introduction Nintendo released Dr. Mario on the NES and Game Boy on the same day in 1990, casting Mario as a doctor fighting an outbreak of red, yellow and blue viruses inside a medicine bottle. Two-coloured megavitamin capsules fall into the bottle, and the player rotates and positions them so that four or more of…
Introduction Pang was developed by Mitchell Corporation and published by Capcom in 1989, appearing as Pomping World in Japan and as Buster Bros. on North American cabinets. The premise is simple enough to grasp in one glance and surprisingly hard to master: bouncing balloons drift around the screen, and the player fires a harpoon straight…
Introduction Adventures of Lolo 2 was developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo, released for the NES in 1990 as a sequel to the original Adventures of Lolo, continuing its single-screen puzzle format where Lolo must collect all heart framers on a stage while avoiding or manipulating monsters to open a path to the…
Introduction Arkanoid II: Revenge of DOH was developed and published by Taito, released for the NES in 1988 as a direct sequel to the original Arkanoid, continuing the Vaus spacecraft’s brick-breaking mission against the resurgent alien force DOH. It expands on the original’s formula with new stage layouts, additional power-up capsules, and boss encounters against…