Talk:Bomberman (series)

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[edit] Characters from the anime

The characters from the Bomberman Jetters anime should be removed from here, and moved to the Bomberman Jetters anime page, as the characters in the anime are vastly different, even from the Bomberman Jetters game, such as...

Bagular (Bagura) in the anime is not actually evil, and would never agree to actually destroying a planet, as he opposes Max even destroying the Jetters base.

Max is actually evil in the anime, and helps with a plan to smash the planets Jetters and Bomber together, and destroy both. --67.182.138.63 21:52, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

I'll do it, I swear! --67.182.138.63 00:21, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Done. --67.182.138.63 21:10, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Why aren't there articles for any of the Bomberman Jetters characters? I am goin to start making them. I shall start with Shirobon and it would be very nice if other people would join in making articles for everyone too. Zeeco 00:35, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed

I removed: "Bomberman has a huge variety of expressions (despite his lack of a mouth,) making him one of the most expressive of video game characters." This doesn't seem very factual and even sounds slightly sarcastic. MafiaCapo 22:23, 3 May 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Bomberman Party Edition

Bomberman Party Edition [1] is the Bomberman game I have, but it isn't listed here. Did everybody just forget it or what? --Peng 09:46, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Why delete lists and powerups?

Why delete it??? It is useful for people who want to know more about the game and exact name of the powerups. I think the editor deleted it because he think he is expert in Bomberman? --xertnevnI

where is it??

[edit] Language improvements in article

I have improved the langauge of the powerups section. Anyone can feel free to further improve them. Note that I used British English in the section. I might continue with other sections at a later time. -- xertnevnI, Feb 4 2006.

[edit] Entire Article Copyedited

Copyedited the whole article today, just took one pass at it and made alot of corrections. This included correcting the use of "in" and "on", deleting arbitrary or redundant information, and organizing the text to flow more naturally (especially in the "characters" section). I am not an expert on or a fan of Bomberman so I can't make any true content changes, but I would like for someone to really look at this article and more clearly define some things. As someone who does not enjoy the Bomberman games or story, I found many references to be confusing and not defined.Wjgl 22:26, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

You removed the "Single Player Mode only" tag from the One-Up powerup... however, in the multiplayer variants of Bomberman it is not available. Only its variant, the "Heart", is avaiable in Multiplayer. -- xertnevnI

OK, I made that change. xertnevnI 04:11, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template

I've recently created and added a Bomberman template to most of the Bomberman-related articles. If you have any questions or comments please contact me on my talk page. --TBC??? ??? ??? 04:46, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Awesome. It helped me find the article on the original Bomberman that I was beginning to think didn't exist. Now that I've found it, I see it could use an upgrade. Thanks! Spamguy 21:37, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Powerups & Characters

I don't like the idea of Powerups and Characters for all Bomberman games being discussed in this particular article. Obviously many things mentioned here are not present in all games, but their citation here implies that they're in every BM game since Day 1. I would recommend moving these objects to specific BM game articles in which they appear. There would be some repetition between articles (Extra Bombs probably appears in every BM game), but that's OK.

Hmmm, speaking of which, the Extra Bombs powerup isn't mentioned. Neither is the Blast Radius Boost (or whatever it's called). These are the most obvious ones, people! :) Spamguy 21:37, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Panic Bomber?

You'll have to forgive me, as I'm not certian how to edit templates, but..

The game Panic Bomber is missing from the Bomberman template. Could someone add it in? 71.124.16.93 14:02, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

No problem. Done. Spamguy 17:00, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] All?

Is it necessary to put information for all those characters in this article? Looks like listcruft to me... -- Jared Hunt July 30, 2006, 11:12 (UTC)

See my comment in 'Powerups & Characters'. I'd do something, but I'm not that aggressive a Wikipedia editor to pull off a fix of this magnitude; nor do I have the time. Spamguy 15:14, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Should have read more carefully. Unless it's separated, that's way too much. I think just naming the characters, etc. would be quite enough. Your opinion? -- Jared Hunt August 2, 2006, 13:42 (UTC)
I suggest making a page for all the Bomberman characters, and having the most recurring characters (white and black Bomberman, Pretty Bomber, Max, Buggler and maybe a couple of others) listed here with a link to the character list. --212.159.26.9 20:43, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
I believe that would be classified as Listcruft. -- Jared Hunt August 6, 2006, 13:17 (UTC)
I agree, only the important, reoccuring characters should appear here. As I recall, that's how it was originally set up when the "characters" section first appeared, before people started listing every minor boss that ever appeared in a game. So, yeah, characters like White, Black, Pretty, Bagular, etc. should stay, everyone else should either be removed, or separated to a different page.Rorshacma 23:49, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bombermen

Is this section an inside joke or something? It's complete gibberish for one thing. If I am parsing the parens correctly, the article is arguing about the race of a video game character based on artwork and in-game events? No, this has to be a joke... Maury 11:59, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Not a joke, just poorly written. Altair 19:06, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Snippage!! Maury

[edit] Overly-long character section

Have you seen that thing? It's huge! There must be some way to shorten it. Joizashmo 15:31, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, like discussed earlier, only the main characters, and important, reoccuring enemy characters should be here. The rest should either be moved to their respective games, or have a "Minor Bomberman Characters" article made. And the anime-only characters really shouldn't be here at all. It just looks overly long and cluttered the way it is now.Rorshacma 18:26, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
I've split off the characters section, since it was just too long for this article. I think that perhaps some information can be merged back in, but for the most part it doesn't really belong in this article. jaco♫plane 19:04, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dyna Blaster

Hudson Soft in 1992 also released a version of Bomberman for PC under different name "Dyna Blaster". More info I think it's also worth mentioning and possibly including in the Bomberman series box on the bottom. And an article about it is also missing.

--RoSe-BuSTeR 13:55, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] YouTube links

This article is one of thousands on Wikipedia that have a link to YouTube in it. Based on the External links policy, most of these should probably be removed. I'm putting this message here, on this talk page, to request the regular editors take a look at the link and make sure it doesn't violate policy. In short: 1. 99% of the time YouTube should not be used as a source. 2. We must not link to material that violates someones copyright. If you are not sure if the link on this article should be removed or you would like to help spread this message contact us on this page. Thanks, ---J.S (t|c) 05:23, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fifth generation

Fifth generation Act Zero • Bomberman Land???

Isn't suppoesed to be 7th? --67.68.252.220 04:44, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Major Vandalism

Someone took the liberty of vandalising the Bomberman article. Anyone care to help restore it? I don't know how to do that major editing. Commander Regulus 05:16, 8 February 2007 (UTC)


I wonder who did that... Anyway, I'm working on it. Zeeco 21:58, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Who is your favorite character?

Mine is Max. He rocks. =D Zeeco 20:09, 7 September 2007 (UTC)