Bakudanjin Demo

Bakudanjin is a fast-paced puzzle and action arcade game for Macintosh and Power Macintosh in the style of Hudson Soft's Bomberman series. Players walk a top-down maze, plant bombs to blast enemies and weak walls, and fight through 28 levels across four cartoon worlds, with end-of-level bosses and power-ups. This is the playable shareware demo from DreamDawn.

Gameplay and modes

The single-player campaign spans 28 stages divided into four themed worlds, each capped by a boss fight, with three selectable characters. A separate competitive side ships 15 two-player versus arenas including Death Match, Capture the Flag, and Steal the Ball, all played on shared-screen 2D maps in the classic Bomberman tradition.

Built-in map editor

Bakudanjin includes a full level editor that exposes complete control over board layout and lets players drop in their own custom artwork, then trade the resulting maps over the Internet. DreamDawn maintained a community map exchange at the bakudanjin site for user-built levels.

Japanese-language style and support

The game is drawn in a cute Japanese cartoon style and ships with Japanese language support: users running KanjiTalk or the Japanese Language Kit get a localized interface and a fully translated manual alongside the standard English presentation.

Developer and shareware terms

Bakudanjin was authored by Chris Pruett and published by DreamDawn (dreamdawn.com). The full version was shareware at US$15.00; this Info-Mac upload (BakudanjinDemo101.sea.hqx, version 1.01) is the time- and content-limited demo distributed for evaluation.

System requirements

Bakudanjin requires a 68040-based Macintosh or any Power Macintosh running System 7.1 or later, with about 4 MB of free RAM, 5 MB of disk space, and a 256-color display at 640x480 resolution.