The game was released in Japan and the PAL region, but not in North America due to the closure of Hudson Soft USA.

As for multiplayer, the game adds a lot over the previous game by adding more characters, each representing a country of Earth (including one of the villains, Pretty Bomber, as France, which marks her first appearance as a non-enemy character).

There are also new cutscenes for the Story mode, which centers around the resurrection of the Five Dastardly Bombers who were previously defeated in Super Bomberman 2, as White Bomber and Black Bomber adventure across various element themed stars in which the Five are causing havoc, under the rule of their creator, Bagular.

He finds the bodies of the five Dastardly Bombers, and then sucks them into his UFO.

[18] In November 1997, in its 60th monthly issue, Nintendo Acción listed it as the 22nd best game they had ever reviewed.