Super Bomberman
"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. [""], "Quake", "Daytona USA" - they're all great multiplayer games. But "Super Bomberman 2" is better." In 1999, "Next Generation" also listed "Super Bomberman 2" as number 30 on their "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 Top 100 SNES Games of All Time.