NES Works #104: Bomberman / Robowarrior / Othello

Video Works by Jeremy Parish

A lot of shenanigans happening with the NES timeline here at the end of 1988, a situation that I'll explore more next episode. For now, it's worth noting that this episode brings us:

1. Two games that may or may not have actually debuted in the U.S. in December 1988, and
2. Two games from the same franchise, possibly released simultaneously by different publishers.

Bomberman and RoboWarrior don't share much branding in common in the West, but both hail from the same germ of inspiration.

RoboWarrior, AKA Bomber King, would branch off briefly to become its own thing under the auspices of developer Aicom, who kind of Hudsoned Hudson here by creating a variant of that company's franchise and then claiming it as their own. Sort of. Except that outside of Japan it was reskinned into someone else's thing. It's complicated. Othello, however, is not complicated.

This is the fourth time this channel has looked at an Othello game. You know the drill.

Production note: NES footage captured from @analogueinc Mini. Arcade footage captured from MiSTer FPGA cores; special thanks to @MiSTerAddons . Video upscaled to 720 with XRGB Mini Framemeister.

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