newly unearthed vids of Hi-Ten Bomberman

[SuperGrafx16]

enjoy.

[Tatsujin]

Wow, great find monseur. Thx a lot

[_joshuaTurbo]

F'n amazing!

[Flare65]

Is this some prototype or was it actually released?

[Ji-L87]

I forget, how many inches is that TV? I suppose it still would've been pretty mind blowing to see at the time Too bad all movies on that channel has pretty bad PQ, but what can you expect given the age :p

[Necromancer]

Man, that looks pretty sweet.  Hectic, but in a good way.

[SignOfZeta]

From 1997 eh? Interesting. At some point it came out of retirement. I wonder where it is now.

[SuperPlay]

Nice find, thanks for sharing :-)

[Tatsujin]

Does now someone smart know on what platform that rare gem really runned? I think it isn't clear down to the present day. Most claim that it run on a PC-FX kinda hardware. I think we all can agree that it didn't run on a parallel wired PCE or such. Also because of the HD output.

[PunkicCyborg]

I can only dream of 10 player pce bomberman

[Tatsujin]

OK, most reliable sources saying that it run on a PC with modified inputs using two PC Engines (for controller purpose only).


This site claims that it run on an IBM workstation:

http://www004.upp.so-net.ne.jp/tadabomland/SAMPLEROM2.htm

It also says that the Shibuyas NHK studio Park (video from above) cleaned the system out in 2002. Asking the person in charge about the reason, the answer was simply "it broke down".

[SignOfZeta]

I've never heard a real answer as to what the hardware was either. As far as I know there was only every one running example, and it output HiVision, so it makes sense that it was just a high end computer running a Bomberman game made just for it.

[Tatsujin]

I've read now on several japanese bomberman related sites, that they indeed had used an IBM workstation to run the game on, so I would assume that this information must be right in a way.

Next question would be, what kind of workstation in particular, using which OS and what software etc.

[NightWolve]

Purty cool.

[SignOfZeta]

I've read now on several japanese bomberman related sites, that they indeed had used an IBM workstation to run the game on, so I would assume that this information must be right in a way.

Next question would be, what kind of workstation in particular, using which OS and what software etc.

I would assume DOS. As for the hardware...something pretty good with a unique video card, probably made for TV broadcast. Most computers back then could barely generate a HiVision quality image and obviously very few could actually output actual HiVision since it wasn't even used outside of Japan. It might have output RGB and then gone through a HiVision conversion box, or maybe it never actually was HiVision since, I think, the pro monitors capable of doing HiVision back then (that display had to be $20k for real) were just as able to use RGB which would have been higher quality anyway.

Whatever it ran on, NHK probably had a bunch of them and nobody else.