Of all the video games out there being turned into board games, few are as perfect a fit for the tabletop treatment as Bomberman. So it sucks to hear that, having originally been planned for a 2020 release, IDW and Konami’s Bomberman board game has been cancelled.
Designed by Sean McDonald at Tower Games—the same guy behind the neat little Sonic Crash Course—it looked like a very cool, very literal adaptation, featuring stuff like a modular board, which would allow for not just random map creation, but also the slow removal of pieces to simulate the shrinking of the level.
It would have been turn-based, with players able to drop their bombs using colour-coded tokens, and just like the video game, if one went off at the edge of the map, the damage would warp over and continue from the opposite side.
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This is the second IDW x Konami board game to be cancelled in recent months, with a Metal Gear game also being killed off after repeated delays
https://kotaku.com/metal-gear-solids-board-game-has-been-cancelled-1846283342
