Bob-omb

Mechanical bomb that will chase you for a short time until it blows up. I wonder what is going on in their heads.

The Walking Bomb

Bob-omb is a small, ambulatory explosive device. He is usually depicted as a black powder grenade with a wind-up key in his back. Bob-omb's first appearance was in Super Mario Bros 2 for the NES, where he could be pulled up out of the ground, and thrown from above by Albatoss. He then reappeared in Super Mario Bros 3, and has since become a mainstay of the Mushroom Kingdom.

Related Versions

Many of the following games spawned new Bob-omb species. The Paper Mario games introduced different types that had different times on their fuses and caused different amounts of damage. Some of the Bob-ombs in those games appeared as NPCs that had a role in the story. Super Mario World introduced the Para-bomb, a Bob-omb that fell to the ground with a parachute.

The Super Mario Bros Movie

Cute lil' guy

Bob-omb made a cameo appearance in the Super Mario Bros movie. There they looked like small wind-up toys. They were used to add the prerequisite explosions to the climax of the film; conveniently, they had a fuse that ran down at the most dramatic moment possible.

Name	Platforms	Developer
Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic	FDS	Nintendo EAD
New Super Mario Bros. Wii released on Nov. 15, 2009	WII	Nintendo EAD
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story released on Sept. 14, 2009	DS	AlphaDream Corporation, Ltd.
Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again! released on June 8, 2009	DSI	Nintendo
Mario Super Sluggers released on Aug. 25, 2008	WII	Namco Bandai Games Inc.
Mario Kart Wii released on April 27, 2008	WII	Nintendo EAD
Super Smash Bros. Brawl released on March 9, 2008	WII	Monolith Software, Inc., Sora, Game Arts Co., Ltd.
Super Mario Galaxy released on Nov. 12, 2007	WII	Nintendo EAD
Mario Strikers Charged released on July 30, 2007	WII	Next Level Games, Inc.
Mario Party 8 released on May 29, 2007	WII	Hudson Entertainment, Inc.

Name:	Bob-omb
Appears in:	55 games
First appearance:	Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic
Aliases

	Mario
	Luigi
	Bombette
	Admiral Bobbery
	King Bob-omb
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