New Atomic Punk: Global Quest is a 1992 video game released by Irem under license from Hudson Soft for arcades. It is part of the Bomberman series. It was the second Bomberman game to be released for arcades, preceded by Bomberman (1991), which was also released by Irem.
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My god, please don't let Irem touch the Bomberman franchise again.
This is one messy, frustrating, and awful arcade game. This game is the sequel to Bomberman (Arcade) also made by Irem released in '91 that was a pretty damn bad Bomberman game due to how frustrating it was, and guess what? This one is no exception.
These two games tried to take the chill formula of the original Bomberman games and tried to turn them into fast-paced action stages with powerups resetting after every stage but at the same time being present in almost every block that you can break. This is not how you make a good Bomberman stage, I think the randomly generated stage does fit the franchise a whole lot more rather than carefully placed blocks to make some sort of map that will always be the same on each playthrough, and that also means the enemy placement will be the same and if you've played the first Bomberman arcade game you will know that Irem love making bullshit enemies with tons of required hits to kill and attack quirks.
I think I'm making myself pretty damn clear, this game is really, really hard and unfair and we all know why it's because it's a damn arcade game and Irem loves those sweet credits but you know what Irem, fuck you and I'm glad your company died- Wait, Irem? Fuck they are the creators of Gunforce II and most of the employees who left it created Nazca which is the company that made Metal Slug 1 to 3?!
Please forgive me Irem and I hope this was a nice tidbit of history for ya.
Overall, the Irem Bomberman arcade duology is really forgettable and not really fun to play at all, I would just recommend the multiplayer mode which is pretty much the same as the home console version and it's always nice to have the option to play multiplayer Bomberman in the arcade.
This is one messy, frustrating, and awful arcade game. This game is the sequel to Bomberman (Arcade) also made by Irem released in '91 that was a pretty damn bad Bomberman game due to how frustrating it was, and guess what? This one is no exception.
These two games tried to take the chill formula of the original Bomberman games and tried to turn them into fast-paced action stages with powerups resetting after every stage but at the same time being present in almost every block that you can break. This is not how you make a good Bomberman stage, I think the randomly generated stage does fit the franchise a whole lot more rather than carefully placed blocks to make some sort of map that will always be the same on each playthrough, and that also means the enemy placement will be the same and if you've played the first Bomberman arcade game you will know that Irem love making bullshit enemies with tons of required hits to kill and attack quirks.
I think I'm making myself pretty damn clear, this game is really, really hard and unfair and we all know why it's because it's a damn arcade game and Irem loves those sweet credits but you know what Irem, fuck you and I'm glad your company died- Wait, Irem? Fuck they are the creators of Gunforce II and most of the employees who left it created Nazca which is the company that made Metal Slug 1 to 3?!
Please forgive me Irem and I hope this was a nice tidbit of history for ya.
Overall, the Irem Bomberman arcade duology is really forgettable and not really fun to play at all, I would just recommend the multiplayer mode which is pretty much the same as the home console version and it's always nice to have the option to play multiplayer Bomberman in the arcade.