Video game nostalgia - Contra and Bomberman boardgames in development

Konami has reached licensing agreements for boardgames to be developed based on two of their iconic video game titles: Contra and Bomberman.

Blacklist Games and Kess Co. will publish a cooperative 1-4 player game inspired by the Contra video games in 2020. The designers at Blacklist Games are Brady and Adam Sadler. They designed Street Masters, Brook City, and Altar Quest. All three of those games feature the Sadler brothers' signature modular deck system. Implementing that system for Contra will allow players to select a unique commando deck, stage, and enemy.

IDW Games will publish a boardgame based on the Bomberman series of games, specifically 2017's Super Bomberman R. This will IDW Games' second implementation of a Konami video game to a board game, as they also are publishing the upcoming Metal Gear Solid: The Board Game. The Bomberman video games traditionally have both cooperative and competitive modes of play, so it will be interesting to see if the board game version follows suit.