
What makes Dynablaster (and its console brethren) so addictive is Hudson’s masterful balance between arcade and puzzle elements. When you find the exit to the next level, you can enter it as soon as all the enemies are cleared from the screen. You must, however, be careful to not get hit by your own bomb’s fire.

As outerworldly hero Bomberman, your goal is to drop bombs at the right spots to destroy wall segments and enemies, find extras to increase your bomb’s fire-range and the amount of bombs you can drop at once.

The game, which has spun off numerous sequels, was a huge hit for Hudson, although as usual this PC version slipped by almost unnoticed by PC gamers. Dynablaster is an excellent PC conversion of Hudson’s popular PC-Engine arcade/puzzle hybrid Bomberman (although why they had to change the popular name to this obscure title is puzzling).
