video of the first-ever HD game: Hi-Ten Bomberman, circa 1993
this is incredibly rare:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ijWXi-vUzrM
Hi-TEN Bomberman
1993
Japan
10-players
widescreen
high resolution
thought to have been made for a prototype version of the 32-bit NEC PC-FX called "IronMan", but it actually used either twin 8-bit PC-Engine/CoreGrafx systems (Japanese TurboGrafx-16s) or a custom 8-bit PC-Engine of some sort.
display: Plasma HDTV costing $25,000 then, which is about $35,000 today!
don't know what the actual resolution was -- they didn't use standards like 1080i, 720p, 1080p with the older analog Japanese HDTVs but the resolution had to have been higher than standard games of the day.
Hi-TEN Bomberman was never released, but was used as the basis for Saturn Bomberman of 1996, which did support widescreen and semi-high resolution (but not HD).
for comparison, Saturn Bomberman's 10-player widescreen, high resolution mode: http://youtube.com/watch?v=nmaU_Ap7YaQ
though I perfer the look of the earlier Hi-TEN Bomberman.
saw this on GAF
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Originally Posted by Nash
You really need to get this on Xbox Live Arcade:
http://bonk.classicgaming.gamespy.co...bm-flyer-1.png
The first HD game and 360 seems a perfect fit.
The 10-player mode in Saturn Bomberman was a gimped version of Hi-Ten Bomberman, it would be great to finally be able to play the full version.
looks like I was, unfortunately right, about Hi-TEN Bomberman being superior to Saturn Bomberman's 10-player mode :(
more info on Hi-TEN Bomberman, which may be only partly accurate:
Quote:
Hi-TEN Bomberman was the world's first HD-TV video game and was used by Hudson Soft to demonstrate their HD-TV technology. The first version demoed at the 1993 Hudson Soft "Super Caravan" as part of a Bomberman competition and ran using two PC Engine CoreGrafx (5 players on each machine) and a computer to output to the HD-TV. For the 1994 contest, the game was apparently updated to run on a Project Tetsujin "IronMan" prototype board, which many believe eventually became the PC-FX. This version of Bomberman featured up to 10 players and purportedly included Bonk, though this has not been confirmed. Hi-TEN Bomberman was later ported to the Sega Saturn under the name Saturn Bomberman, and Saturn Bomberman does feature Bonk, so it is likely that Hi-Ten also featured Bonk. In 1993, Hi-TEN Bomberman was given the Committee Chairman's Award at the "High Vision Awards 93" hosted by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Many believe that the game was never released on the PC-FX due to NEC's strict content guidelines on the system, though it was eventually ported to the Sega Saturn.
also from that GAF thread:
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Originally Posted by Nash
Hudson could gain a lot of goodwill and attention from ressurrecting Hi-Ten Bomberman for XBLA, as not only would it be 10-player online Bomberman but it would also be giving fans the chance to play the only unreleased Bomeberman game.
It was never released commerically, and only used at Hudson's HQ in Japan and on a roadshow that went round Japan.
http://www.classicgaming.com.br/imag...rman_Foto1.jpg
http://www.classicgaming.com.br/imag...rman_Foto2.jpg
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Originally Posted by Nash
There was a lot in it that didn't make it to the cut-down Saturn 10-player mode, like multiple stages, and the arrows in the above shot.
http://www.classicgaming.com.br/imag...rman_Foto4.jpg
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nash
Look at that HD Bomberman goodness!
GIVE US HI-TEN BOMBERMAN!
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthre...-ten+bomberman
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nash
Saturn Bomberman was very good, but overall it was a bit of a bodge-job.
The 5-player game was a slightly messed up version of Bomberman '94 and the 10-player mode was a stripped down version of Hi-Ten Bomberman. I'd love to see Hi-Ten Bomberman finally get a proper release, and being one of the first high-definition games it is literally screaming 'stick me on Live Arcade'.
