If you look closely at the bubbles, you'll notice that the enemies from Bubble Bobble are trapped inside a different enemy for each different colored bubble.

It is unusual in being popular with women and girls. As well as typically cute Japanese animation (Bub and Bob from 'Bubble Bobble' operate the cannon) and music, the game's mechanics and level design were beautifully balanced, and the game was terrifically successful at the arcades, spawning several sequels (see Series section for more information).

This game was re-released 6 months later (December 1994) on the SNK Neo-Geo MVS hardware as 'Puzzle Bobble '. This game is known in US as 'Bust-A-Move'. The Bubble Buster title screen is buried in the game itself. The game was originally called Bubble Buster. it was the first in the hugely successful puzzle series from Taito. TECHNICAL Taito B System hardware Main CPU: Motorola 68000 12 Mhz), Zilog Z80 4 Mhz) Sound Chips: Yamaha YM2610B 8 Mhz) Players: 4 Control: 8-way joystick Buttons: 3 TRIVIA Puzzle Bobble was released in June 1994. After clearing the arena, the next round begins with a new pattern of bubbles to clear. Bubbles will fire automatically if the player remains idle. Both players have an identical arrangement of coloured bubbles in each arena and when a player removes a large group of bubbles (four or more), some of them are transferred to the opponent's arena. In the two-player 'versus' mode, the winner is the player who clears their arena first. In the single-player game there are thirty-two rounds to complete. The game is over when the bubbles reach the very bottom of the play area.

At regular intervals the 'ceiling' of the play area - together with any bubbles stuck to it - will drop one row down the screen, decreasing the size of the play area making life more difficult for players. The aim is to forms chains of like-coloured bubbles, making them disappear. This is achieved by firing bubbles up the screen - with the angle of trajectory dictated by the player - at the clusters of bubbles. Puzzle Bobble is an arcade puzzle game offering either one or two-player competitive play, in which the aim is to clear each play area of the coloured bubbles clustered in the upper half of the screen. Arcade Video game published 29 years ago: Puzzle Bobble © 1994 Taito Corp.

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