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Aaaahhhh, Bomberman 64 was one of the first games I played as a kid. It's still something I would consider a favorite, although my opinion of it has changed a little over time.
Probably about a year ago, I showed the game to an online friend like "hey, lets both get the rom and try to race eachother through it!" and... I think we got to the first Blue Resort level before our lack of understanding how to get all the secrets in the game started really bugging us. So he looked up some videos showing how to get the Gold Cards and costume pieces and it seriously seems like Hudson designed certain bits of the levels with the intention of using crazy speedrunner tactics as the Actual Only Way To Get The Secret Items.

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skip to 2:20.
The context for this bit of footage is that you need the Ultra bomb powerup to get some of the secret goodies in this level. It's in this little secret room, under a grate being held up by some thin pillars. It looks like what you're supposed to do is throw bombs onto the pillars in the water, and then bounce bombs off of them, into the thin pillars that you need to blow up, but that's pretty much impossible. I've spent hours trying to do it. You can pretty much only blow up one of the pillars, because your bombs won't reach the other ones.
So then this guy just bounces a bomb off of his own head to bounce over a small ledge you aren't supposed to get over. This is a tactic they use in other levels, too.

I still love the game, don't get me wrong, but I've also still never managed to get to the secret bonus levels.

I also have to agree, the levels do look really nice despite the low poly count. I'd be pretty proud of myself if I could 3D like that.