Hi-Ten Bomberman - 1993 High Definition System (Now in HD)

Now in HD video!!
This is the revolutionary Hi-Ten Bomberman, a ten player bomberman with custom hardware on one of the earliest and most expensive High Definition televisions from 1993. Yes, 1993. The system is quite amazing to imagine that HD gaming was taking place over 14 years ago in Japan. There are rumors this game was done on a PC-FX prototype hardware, but it's more like a one of a kind machine. This game went on to inspire the 10 player Sega Saturn version of bomberman, the best version of the game ever made. This footage is ultra rare and probably the only footage available now, if ever.

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[Shadowlayer]

Amazing, hey kev is that a plasma HDTV? or a tube unit?

Were those even available for sale in Japan at the time?

[ASSEMblerEX]

It's a plasma TV. It cost $40,000+ and was targeted at hospital and government.

They were for sale but hard to get. You can buy a 100 inch LED tv right now, but good luck finding one

outside of NYC showrooms. Same thing with the plasma.

[Robert H]

WTF, japan had plasmas back in 1993!!??.............bullshit

[ASSEMblerEX]

They had them, they just cost $40,000 each.

[ASSEMblerEX]

First plasma display was invented in 1960's

[Jaklub]

lovin the soundtrack, wish it was available anywhere

[GGGG761]

costco has 80 inch tvs rite now for just under 4,000

[SuperJustinChannel]

0:29 I really want those custom Multitaps with the multiple BomberMen.

[ezri85]

I didn't see my first plasma until a 1998/9(?) trade show where they had one hung up on a wall playing what I assumed was a prototype PS2 running an early Tekken Tag Tournament. Price tag was about $40,000 AUD

I of course moved on from that display and got my first taste of a japanese dreamcast a year before the rest of my country :D

[Zuhzuhzombie]

Whats in the custom hardware?



[DownDuckling]

What resolution did that TV have?

[DuplicatedOnce]

Where can you get the board or cabinet? Where and when did you get this tape?

[Hattakiri]

Was this Rear Projection? Or already PDP / LED / LCD?

How much did such a TV machine cost those days?

[srarcade]

Nothing custom- Early HDTV 16:9 CRTs were around. I'll admit, the video makes it look like a modern flat panel display with the bezel but that technology just didn't exist back then at that scale.

For more info and pictures of this game running on a 16:9 SONY HDTV CRT at Hudson's headquarters, look up Next Generation (US) magazine issue March 1995 page 78-81

[waltermh111]

The timeline I am looking at for this though doesnt give any info about the tech shown in San Jose in 1994, and doesnt give details again til pointing out a 42in display in 199

So, it could be a very fancy custom CRT with the lack of info even about the Hi-Ten Bomberman from another source, but I wouldnt be so easy to dismiss a one off tech demo as being plasma based on having little info on plasma display showings around the world back then.