Bust-A-Move 99
Bust-A-Move 99

Bust-A-Move 99

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Four players, four little playfields and junk bubbles flying in every direction: that is the scene that makes Bust-A-Move '99 worth having on the Nintendo 64. The N64 edition added a four-player versus mode, and GameSpot picked out those three- and four-player battles as the game's best feature, going so far as to recommend this version over the PlayStation release to anyone who owned both systems.

Despite the name, this is Taito's Puzzle Bobble 3 brought home, the same game Europe knew as Bust-A-Move 3 DX and Japan as Puzzle Bobble 64. The core is as sharp as ever: aim the launcher, match three or more of a color, and drop whole clusters by popping the bubbles that hold them up. Puzzle Bobble 3's signature twist is the rainbow bubble, which takes on a color when a bubble bursts next to it, so one careful shot can turn a dead patch of the board into a fresh chain of matches. The shoulder buttons nudge your aim a hair at a time for the bank shots that really count.

Solo players get plenty on the cartridge too. Arcade mode is the coin-op conversion, Challenge mode runs you through roughly 25 puzzles and grades you at the end, and Win Contest pits you against a string of computer opponents. Collection mode holds more than a thousand fan-made puzzles, most of them quick brain teasers you can skip if one doesn't grab you, and an Edit mode lets you build your own boards from colored bubbles, clear bubbles, stars and blocks.

Reviewers were fair about it: GameSpot called it neither a revolution for puzzle games nor for its own series, but a good game, and that is the right pitch. It is a deep, polished take on the formula with more ways to play than most puzzlers of its era, and on a console built around four controller ports and short on puzzle games, it slots right in as the party game that comes out after the racing is done and somehow lasts until midnight.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1997
Publisher
Acclaim
Developer
Taito
Players
Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
About the game

In the tradition of the Bust-A-Move series, Taito's Bust-A-Move '99 is a traditional puzzle game. The main objective is to destroy or get rid of (by dropping) all the bubbles located within the stage. Once you do this, you'll graduate to the next level. While the premise may sound simple, the logic and execution is not. Using a "bubble shooter", you must aim and shoot your bubbles to the top of the screen so that you can bring three bubbles of the same color together. When you do this, the bubbles will pop. One way to earn points is to have the popping bubbles as well as the bubble that was shot fall off the screen (in multi-player, it puts these bubbles on your opponent's side). This also gives you a lot less bubbles to take care of. Bubbles are constantly falling down. Popping them all in a short amount of time is necessary because the longer it takes you to pop them all, the faster they will drop. If you fail to clear out all the bubbles and they reach the bottom of the screen, the game is over. Bust-A-Move '99 contains some new options never seen in the Bust-A-Move series.

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