[phillryu]

Bomberman is the original Battle Royale: Lots of players starting distributed around a map, farming and gathering powerups and making their way to each other until there's one person left standing. (Even including the map constricting in size as time runs low like the 'storm' in Fortnite and PubG.)

[TeMPOraL]

Curiously, the article has a screenshot that clearly displays the words "Battle Royal" in the 10-player mode; that would push the earliest use of this term in video games back to at least 1994.

[leovander]

Brawl Stars is a hybrid arena game with a Bomberman type mode, but its really a last man standing. It comes off as Bomberman since you can collect power ups during the match.

[zhoujianfu]

I was going to say exactly the same thing... back in college I used to dream of online 100-player bomberman. And now we sort of have it with fortnite!

[dlhavema]

Agree, bomber man was a super fun game. My wife and I loved playing it together on the ports we got for our Wii back in the day.