Canyon Bomber is upside down breakout and while I can get at least partially down with almost any kind of breakout clone, probably as an old holdover from having a dad who spent a lot of time in bars so I spent a lot of time being babysat by bartop arcade jawns in the 90s and maybe a good shrink would change that but this is America and Joe “I Would Veto Medicare For All” Biden is the nominee for the supposed good guys so haha who the fuck can ever afford a shrink, wait what was I saying oh yeah even as someone who likes simplistic breakout clones this one hovers a little too close to simplistic. And I’m grading on a hell of a scale here.
Canyon Bomber’s main problem is a lack of variety, as you not only can’t control the actual bombers but also don’t have a whole lot of variation in the canyon layout itself. This leads to a kind of funny quirk where the alternative game mode, the Sea Bomber, that they just threw on there to be able to say there were 100 games on one cartridge or whatever is actually the airquote deeper gameplay. Of course, that positive was already being overshadowed by the similar and superior Air-Sea Battle. Still a decent enough title for this early era of console gaming.
Canyon Bomber’s main problem is a lack of variety, as you not only can’t control the actual bombers but also don’t have a whole lot of variation in the canyon layout itself. This leads to a kind of funny quirk where the alternative game mode, the Sea Bomber, that they just threw on there to be able to say there were 100 games on one cartridge or whatever is actually the airquote deeper gameplay. Of course, that positive was already being overshadowed by the similar and superior Air-Sea Battle. Still a decent enough title for this early era of console gaming.