Games | Nintendo Entertainment System | Game Boy | Mega Man Series | Bomb Man
Article by wumpwoast | November 8, 2007
Bomb Man is a rebel. He's a punk rocker with a mohawk who lives at home with his mom and drinks too much beer. Way to freeload off all the cool Robot Masters, jackass.
They could have fit Bomb Man into the original Game Boy Mega Man, but they weren't about to let him crash that party. Aside from his stage being forgettable (other than the big pod-towers that wouldn't fit well on a Game Boy screen), we have other major issues:
- Bomb Man's bomb explosions would either consume two-thirds of the Game Boy screen (at an equivalent resolution to the NES game), or they would be small enough as to be trivially avoidable.
- Bomb Man would have no moving room to avoid his own explosions unless he stood in one place or threw the aforementioned gimp bombs.
Seriously, the most interesting thing to be seen is the first area, where six fleas pounce on you at once. You know fleas mean quality.
This stage is fair warning that Mega Man games could be totally nondescript and boring. Think of Bomb Man's stage as a dry run for such masterworks as Mega Man 6...except that even Six's levels at least stick to cultural and historical stereotypes for their themes. But wait -- punk rockers are a stereotype, too!
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