In this day and age the need to come up with the next best game is getting harder and harder, and these days classics just don't cut the mold anymore as the world increasingly becomes obsessed with going to war, but there are a few quiet franchises still operating under the radar and after 32 years and over 70 games, Bomberman is still going with heavy emphasis on "under the radar"

Other than box art design, the game has barely changed in it's run, although some games are better remembered than others, and their next gen run is worth forgetting but chances are, you are the same White Bomberman with the same cartoon bombs, sometimes you are destroying other colored Bombermans, other times you are destroying other Hudson Soft characters, while another time you fight Wario. Bomberman's collab with Wario is worthy of note as Bomberman didn't get top billing despite being his game.
So we come to today, is Bomberman still relevant in this day and age?
Well yes and no.
At conventions particularly the one I went to not too long ago, Bomberman in the video games room was the most popular choice; played on the Saturn using eight players on a big projector screen, and despite the fact that it was the same battle mode over and over it was still fun and managed to out perform the regular tournament fighting games.
On the other hand Bomberman has been out of action for five years now bar iOS and sadly like his wardrobe buddy Megaman, will probably not make anymore games in this day and age. You see Bomberman is one of those games that comes out and everyone raves about it for a week and it quietly returns to the shadows before it comes out again next year, this also explains why it has such a strange release schedule. Over the years it's tried to break into Karting and Party Games but has failed in the face of Nintendo, in fact the Party one being an ironic case as Hudson Soft help Nintendo design the Mario Party series.
Current State: It's been sent to iOS to see out it's retirement and there's at least still some interest to make more.
Why Should it be Revived?: Well it doesn't need so much reviving so much as it needs to be on a major console even if it's only a download title for Nintendo, PlayStation or X-Box, it's still better than iOS.