Every stage will inevitably begin with the players needing to open up the design some, placing bombs and seeking cover from the cross-shaped blasts as you start carving you way into areas of interest. Levels are grid-like and viewed in a top down perspective, Bomberman and any enemies, be they monsters or other players, blocked from accessing each other both by indestructible blocks and ones that can be blown apart by bombs.

Like most entries in the series, Mega Bomberman carries over much of the basic formula of the series and seeks to tweak it in some new and interesting way. Mega Bomberman is Bomberman ’94 with a few tweaks, meaning this beloved Bomberman game has truly been available in the West almost as long as Bomberman ’94 has been available in Japan. However, from 2009 onward, rereleases of the title on things like the Wii and Wii U Virtual Consoles as well as the PlayStation Network did make this classic playable in the United States… although it had already been playable since 1995.

In discussions of which Bomberman game is best, Bomberman ’94 tends to place rather highly, the Japanese only game never making the jump from the PC Engine to its American equivalent, the Turbografx-16.