Super Bomberman 2

According to Famitsu, Super Bomberman 2 sold 153,587 copies in its first week on the market and 730,000 copies during its lifetime in Japan. The Japanese publication Micom BASIC Magazine ranked the game second in popularity in its August 1994 issue, and it received a 23.7/30 score in a readers' poll conducted by Super Famicom Magazine. It also garnered generally favorable reception from critics. GamePro's Lawrence Neves gave the game a positive review, praising the strategic gameplay, cute graphics, and music, though he remarked that the single player mode is considerably less engaging than the multiplayer. Next Generation reviewed the game, rating it five stars out of five, and stated that "This is truly God's perfect party game." Next Generation's 1996 lexicon of video game terms included the joke entries "Bomb-o'clock" and "Bombaholic", in which they referred to Super Bomberman 2 as "the videogame of choice for game developers everywhere". Later that year they named it the 3rd best game of all time, saying it "epitomizes the Japanese art of taking a ludicrously simple concept, and then executing that concept faultlessly. The control is superb, the graphics are ultimately functional... the play is balanced to perfection - and four players won't have more fun doing anything else. We mean it. Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Quake, Daytona USA - they're all great multiplayer games. But Super Bomberman 2 is better." In 1999, Next Generation listed Super Bomberman 2 as number 30 on their list of the "Top 50 Games of All Time", commenting that "Of all the games that came out of the 16-bit era, Super Bomberman 2 remains a timeless reminder of the ingenuity and purity of gameplay that characterized Nintendo's world-beating console." IGN ranked the game 89th on their list of the "Top 100 SNES Games of All Time". In 1995, Total! ranked the game third on their list of the "Top 100 SNES Games". In 1996, GamesMaster ranked it sixth in "The GamesMaster SNES Top 10". In the same issue, they also ranked the game 10th in their list of the "Top 100 Games of All Time", at the time calling it "the best multi-player game in the world."