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Bubble Bobble
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Item Description
Two little dragons, one screen, and a theme tune that never quite leaves your head. Bubble Bobble's formula fits in a sentence, yet it's tuned so well that people are still playing it four decades after Taito's 1986 arcade release. Bub and Bob, two boys transformed into bubble-blowing dragons, head into the Cave of Monsters to rescue their girlfriends, clearing one single-screen round at a time by trapping every enemy in a bubble and popping it into a shower of fruit and bonus items.
Bubbles are your weapon, your platforms and your puzzle pieces all at once. Blow a stream of them and bounce your way up to a ledge you couldn't reach by jumping, or catch a lightning or water bubble drifting through the round and wipe out a whole crowd at once. Waste too much time and the invincible Baron von Blubba appears to chase you off the screen, so every round pushes you to work fast. Two players share the screen at the same time, racing for fruit, rescuing each other from tight spots and arguing over who popped what, which is exactly how this game was meant to be played.
The NES version is more than a straight copy of the arcade. It stretches the adventure to 113 rounds instead of 100, reworks some layouts and items, and adds passwords so you can return to a round you've already reached. The deeper you go, the more each round turns into a little puzzle of drifting bubble currents and enemy patterns, all building toward a boss at the very end, and Tadashi Kimijima's bouncy theme plays the whole way through.
Fukio Mitsuji's design launched a long family of games, from Rainbow Islands to the Puzzle Bobble (Bust-a-Move) spin-offs, but the original Bub and Bob adventure is still the purest form of the idea. Hand a second controller to someone you like, or someone you want to beat, and the NES cartridge does the rest.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1987
- Publisher
- Taito
- Genre
- Shooter, Platformer
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-op
About the game
Bubble Bobble is a platform game, with each level being a single screen. The enemies must be cleared from a level to go to the next one. With one player controlling Bub and the other controlling Bob, the player can jump and collect items for points (such as fruit). The real power Bub and Bob have however is the ability to blow bubbles. These bubbles can be as platforms to leap on, or to trap enemies. Enemies trapped in a bubble must be popped by jumping into them, wherein they'll turn to fruit. Additionally, power-ups sometimes float by in bubbles. They include lightning, which flies out horizontally at enemies, and water, which drags the player and enemies straight down flowing over platforms. Taking too long to complete any level will summon Baron Von Blubba, who will float around the screen trying to destroy the player.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayBubble Bobble on NES
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