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Bomber Man (ボンバーマン, Bonbā Man) was the third Bomberman video game. It was developed and published by Hudson Soft for the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicom, video game console on December 20, 1985 in Japan. It was a refinement of Hudson Soft's original Bomber Man, which was released for multiple home computer platforms in Japan in 1983 and as Eric and the Floaters in the United Kingdom in 1984.
It proved popular, and was subsequently converted by Hudson Soft as Bomber Man Special (ボンバーマン スペシャル, Bonbā Man Supesharu) to the MSX computer standard in 1986 in Japan.
In January 1989, Hudson Soft published it as Bomberman on the Nintendo Entertainment System, the international edition of the Family Computer, in the United States of America.

Versions

The Famicom version was re-released as a budget title through Disk Writer kiosks for the Famicom Disk System in Japan on April 24, 1990.

A port of the NES version was included as a bonus in the Game Boy game Bomber Boy, which was released in Japan on August 31, 1990, in North America as Atomic Punk on May 5, 1991, and in Europe as Dynablaster in 1991. Bomber Boy was included in the three-game multicart, Bomberman Collection, with Bomberman GP and Bomberman GP 2 in Japan on July 21, 1996.

A port of the NES version was released for Palm OS in Japan on December 14, 2001. This version is unique in that it has three possible endings. The first is seen after completing the game without losing a life or using a continue, the second is seen after completing the game after losing a life but not using any continues, and the final is seen after completing the game after both losing a life and using a continue.

The version included in Bomber Boy was released as part of a two-game multicart, Bomberman Selection, with Bomberman GP in South Korea for the Game Boy Color in 2003.

The NES version was released on Game Boy Advance as part of the Famicom Mini series in Japan on February 14, 2004, as part of the Classic NES Series in the United States on June 7, 2004, and as part of the the NES Classics series in Europe on July 9, 2004.

The NES version was also included in Hudson Best Collection Vol. 1: Bomberman Collection with Bomberman II, which was released in Japan for Game Boy Advance on December 22, 2005.

On February 5, 2026, the NES version was included in the Super Bomberman Collection for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S worldwide.

Artwork

Front cover (NES US)Front cover (Family Computer Japan)

WE Computer Museum owns the Super Bomberman Collection compilation digitally for the 64-bit Windows operating system. It includes the Japanese version of Bomber Man for the Family Computer that was edited to contain the ending of the United States version of Bomberman for the Nintendo Entertainment System.