Bomberman World

The goal is to complete all five areas of the five different Bomber worlds. To complete the areas, the player must control Bomberman and set bombs to destroy enemies and obstacles that will lead to the exit. To be able to complete each level, the player must locate and pick up all of the Crystals on the map. Once this is complete, the door to the exit will open, and the player is allowed to move on to the next area. In the fourth area of each world, the player will have to defeat a Dark Force Bomber, and an extra boss that is themed after the type of world the setting is in.

Once the player defeats a Dark Force Bomber, the player is given a unique battle armor to wear for the next boss battle, which has a normal attack and a special attack. The battle armor is only used for the boss battles, meaning once the player advances to the next world, the battle armor will be lost.

Long ago, there were four evil Bombers known as the Dark Force Bombers who sought to plunge the Bomberman world into darkness. The ancient ancestors of the Bombermen managed to stop them by imprisoning the Dark Force Bombers within the Blue Crystal. Millions of years later, Bagular, appearing from another point in the time-space continuum, destroyed the Blue Crystal, thus freeing the villains. The freed bombers became Bagular's minions and conquered the four worlds. It is now up to Bomberman to save the worlds from evil.

Bomberman World was shown at the September 1997 Tokyo Game Show under the title PlayStation Bomberman.

According to Famitsu, Bomberman World sold over 76,801 copies in its first week on the market and sold approximately 217,101 copies during its lifetime in Japan. The game received an average reception from critics, holding a rating of 63.40% based on five reviews according to review aggregator website GameRankings. Both Dengeki PlayStation reviewers found the multiplayer mode exciting, but noted that the viewpoint made it difficult to judge distances and led to repeated mistakes, particularly in boss battles. They also said that the single-player mode was monotonous and commented that the previous installments were better. GamePro's Francis Mao praised the game's responsive controls, soundscapes, and crisp graphics, but felt that the angled perspective was not as effective as the direct camera view and that some backgrounds were too detailed to follow the on-screen action.