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Revision as of 22:57, 11 November 2019
Bubble Bobble is a single-screen action game developed and published by Taito, originally in the arcade in 1986, and then ported to over a dozen platforms.
I first saw Bubble Bobble in an NES strategy guide, and, from a screenshot I assumed the end boss was on level 50. Only later, after playing the game with the daughter of one of my mother's clients, did I realize that the end boss was on level 100, and it was his hit points that I was reading which replace the level in the display.
Contents
Status
I have beaten the NES port and received the bad ending (one-player mode).
Review
3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
Best Version: 36%
— This section contains spoilers! —
Good
- The dinosaur kids, Bub and Bob, are both cute characters for the game, and many of the monsters are also adorable enemies.
- The main music theme is quite hummable.
- Several of the levels have a creative layout that not only look cool, but take advantage of the game engine.
- The NES and Game Boy manuals are quite comprehensive.
Bad
- The sound gets pretty annoying pretty quickly.
- For a game that is so easy, the end boss is especially difficult.
- The UK computer manuals are awful.
Ugly
- The game is highly repetitive. After only a few minutes, you've seen pretty much everything the game has to offer. It would be better paced at about 30 levels.
Media
Box Art
The North American Romstar marquee is a mess. Bub and Bob are quite malformed and, although the typeface is interesting, the extremely busy background and red-on-black makes it hard to read.
Documentation
Maps
Graphic Sheets
Videos
- youtube.com/watch?v=BuXOSBb4hQw - Longplay, Arcade.
Titles
Language | Native | Transliteration | Translation |
---|---|---|---|
English | Bubble Bobble | ||
Japanese | バブルボブル | Baburu Boburu | Bubble Bobble |
Links
- Video Game Rating - 3
- Video Game Graphics Rating - 4
- Video Game Sound Rating - 4
- Pages with broken file links
- Games
- Video Games
- Video Game Prime Order - Action, Strategy, Adventure
- Video Game Genre - Platformer
- Video Game Genre - Platform Shooter
- Video Game Genre - Shooter
- Game Mechanic - Playable Female Character
- Media Theme - Fantasy
- Arcade Games
- Amstrad CPC Games
- Apple II Games
- Amiga Games
- Atari ST Games
- Commodore 64 Games
- DOS Games
- Famicom Disk System Games
- Game Boy Games
- Game Gear Games
- MSX2 Games
- NES Games
- Sega Master System Games
- ZX Spectrum Games
- Action
- Single-Screen
- Trope - Damsel In Distress
- Games I've Beaten
- Multi-Player
- Multi-Player Co-op
- 4-bit Color Graphics