10 Awesome Cancelled Video Games From Famous Franchises
8. Hi-Ten Bomberman
Bomberman is a game of simple pleasures. It doesn't need a gritty, futuristic aesthetic or strange neon colours to keep us hooked on its frenetic gameplay formula (looking at you, 360 version), and the only thing you can really do to improve it is to make it bigger.
That was the thinking behind Hi-Ten Bomberman, a version of the game designed for a pricey Japanese widescreen display format called HD-Vision in 1993 (and there you were thinking that HD was a millennial thing). It was classic Bomberman through and through, but with huge arenas and support for up to 10 players.
Hi-Ten Bomberman never made it to consoles, and was only seen running on a PC with a load of PC Engine controllers plugged into it. The fact is that widescreen HD-esque TVs were way ahead of their time back then, and weren't to go mainstream for another 10 years or so.
Still, everyone has an HD TV now, and Bomberman's pretty timeless, soooo can we have it now please?