Bomberman

Article summary

is a video game franchise created by Yuji Tanaka, Toshiyuki Sasagawa, and Shinichi Nakamoto while at Hudson Soft. The franchise is owned by Konami following its acquisition of Hudson Soft in 2011. The franchise began with the game which was released in Japan on July 1983 and internationally in 1984. Starting with the TurboGrafx 16 rendition in 1990, multiplayer would be introduced to the series, with this version supporting up to five players. Multiplayer would go on to become a key component of the series, with later Bomberman games supporting as many as 10 players locally in Saturn Bomberman and 64 players online in Super Bomberman R 2. , the most recent installment is Super Bomberman Collection.

Key claims

1. release date: 1983 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376936851