The day many of you have been highly anticipating has finally arrived, today I’m very happy to announce that Bomberman Online is now back online! Thanks to the collaborative effort of flyinghead and a newcomer to the scene, Farkus, the game is now playable online again after a 23-year server outage. This game has been a work-in-progress for quite a few years now with Shuouma getting it working up to the lobby but struggling to find the missing pieces after that. After putting the game on the back burner for a while, flyinghead and Farkus took up the slack and successfully managed to assemble the entire puzzle and finally give us full online multiplayer functionality!
As a big fan of the Bomberman franchise, I’m very excited about this one as I’m sure a lot of you are as well. I’m sure I don’t really need to explain what Bomberman is but I will anyway since it only takes a single sentence to explain the entire premise: You blow up your enemies with bombs. With that out of the way. the Dreamcast iteration of Hudson’s staple series allows for up to 8 players online via either standard modem or broadband adapter connections. I’m sure this will result in some epic online battles on servers that are likely to be very active. I don’t know if this game will dethrone PSO as the dominant online game on the platform but I’m sure it’ll give it a run for its money. Bomberman has always been a great pick-up-and-play game that anyone can get into and doesn’t require you to dedicate a lot of time to it. This is great as players with only a bit of free time can easily just jump online for a match or two if they have a few minutes to spare. I know I’ll personally be dedicating quite a few of my spare minutes to this game.
Huge thanks to everyone involved with getting Bomberman Online… errrr… back online. Because otherwise we’d have to consider changing the name of the game to Bomberman Offline and I’m sure that would be much more difficult. I hope to see everyone on the bomb field soon! Is that what you call it? I don’t even know. In any case, it’s going to be a blast! I’m sorry…
As always, be sure to check the Connection Guide for all the info you need on how to connect. As with any new server, there may be bugs. If you experience any issues, you can report them in the comments below.
Very cool!
So happy this game is back, the BBA is worth the price. You can play all but one of the BBA games for North America (Unreal Tournament) plus play Classicube with it and use DCPlaya on it to stream internet radio and videos