Bomberman/Trivia

Creator Backlash: Hudson Entertainment has all but disowned Act Zero.
Follow the Leader: The series is guilty of blatantly tying in concepts or mechanics from other games. Some of these were well received (the Rooi in response to Super Mario World's Yoshi, and the Charabom in response to Pokémon). Others not so much (Act:Zero in response to the massive influx of Darker and Edgier reboots).
Keep Circulating the Tapes: Both Hi-Ten Bomberman and its cousin Hi-Ten Chara Bom were exclusive to events hosted in 1993 and 1994 respectively, and were never released for home consoles in any format; however, they were the basis for the Saturn Bomberman Battle Game.
Marth Debuted in Smash Bros: The Evil Bomber of Bomberman Hero (Devil Bomber in Japan) was originally the villain of Bomberman GB 3 a game never released in America.
- Bagular, easily the closest thing the entire series has to a Big Bad, barely averts this by appearing in Mega Bomberman. However his appearance in Bomberman Hero is based off his appearance in Super Bomberman 3, which was unreleased in North America. In fact, nearly all of the games with Bagular never came out in the USA; pretty much no-one recognized him in Bomberman Hero.
Milestone Celebration: Amusingly, Super Bomberman R has a spot on the cover highlighting the series 33rd anniversary. It seems less like an anniversary celebration than it is celebrating the series actually getting a new mainline game following a Sequel Gap.
No Export for You: Super Bomberman 3 through 5 and Panic Bomber W, the Japanese Bomberman 64 (as noted above, our Bomberman 64 is their Baku Bomberman), The Bomberman Jetters anime, and everything Bomberman B Daman Bakugaiden related, for starters.
- A majority of the Bomberman Land games.
- The PlayStation 2 and Game Boy Advance versions of Bomberman Jetters, Japan.
- Saturn Bomberman Fight!!, Japan.
- Bomberman Wars, Japan.
- Bomberman: Panic Bomber, Japan.
- Net de Bomberman, Japan.
- Bomberman Kart, and its Updated Rerelease Bomberman Kart DX, Japan.
- Bomberman Hardball, Japan and Europe.
- Bomberman Story DS, Japan and Europe.
Old Shame: Bomberman: Act Zero was Hudson Soft's attempt to re-imagine their iconic character for Xbox 360 audiences. It was slammed by critics and players for being too Dark and Edgy compared to its older games, along with a host of other problems. Hudson's US branch attempted to defend criticism of the game at first, but in this promo video for Bomberman Live (its first entry on Xbox Live Arcade), producer Joel Breton and marketing VP John Lee dismiss Act Zero as a very bad idea in hindsight.

Lee: Let's not do that, dang it!

Remade for the Export: Bomberman '94 was released in the west in the form of a Sega Genesis port titled Mega Bomberman after the TurboGrafx-16 was discontinued in the west.
- And Mega Bobmerman had inferior graphics, despite being on a more powerful system, and only supported up to four players instead of five, despite the Genesis being capable of five players with the right MultiTap.
Sequel Gap: Super Bomberman 5 was released in 1997, Super Bomberman R was released in 2017.