Bubble Bobble

Bubble Bobble is a Video game of platform of 1986, developed by the Japanese company Taito. At the origin marketed on Terminal of arcade, the play was related to many family systems and knew several continuations. The universe of play was also declined in another series, Puzzle Bobble ( Bust-a-Move ), of the very popular plays of puzzle also.

Gameplay

The play puts in scene two Dinosaure S, Bub and Bob, of which been engaged were removed. Bub, helped of Bob in mode two players, must traverse the few 100 levels of the play to deliver them.

Each level is composed of a screen fixes with for environment a whole of platform S more or less alambiqué. Monsters evolve/move in this decoration and the goal is of all to eliminate them without being made touch. The dinosaurs have the capacity to spit of the bubbles which imprison the enemies during a few seconds; they do not have then any more but to make burst the bubble to kill the monster and to reveal an object which comes to inflate the score. There are different parameters which enter gradually concerned, coming to complex the principle: beyond of a certain limit of time, the monsters accelerate brutally; duration of " capture" bubbles is variable and of the drafts can deteriorate their trajectory, etc

The resolution of the levels recquiert thus addresses and reflection. The play conceals moreover many mysteries (system of obscure points, varied no-claims bonus objects, hidden end, etc) which require a certain time of experimentation to be bored.

Exploitation

Versions

Taito marketed Bubble Bobble in August 1986 in Japan. The production taxes and of distribution in Salle of arcade to the United States were yielded to Ramstar (October 1986). The bearing S on family supports started to be launched in 1987 concerned videos: there was of it more than one ten on the whole, without counting the republications on the platforms of the following generations:

An not-official bearing also saw the day on Micro BBC.

Bubble Bobble is available on PlayStation, Saturn and MS-DOS with the pack Bubble Bobble also featuring Rainbow Islands (1996, Acclaim), which also includes/understands its continuation Rainbow Islands . The play also left on Game Boy Advance with Bubble Bobble: Old & New , which proposes old and a new version of the play, and on N-Pledge (2004, via Taito Memories ). Lastly, the play is also available on PlayStation 2, Windows and Xbox through the Compilation S Taito Legends (2005, Xplosiv) and Taito Memories vol. 1 (2005, Taito, only on PS2 and in Japan).

Reception

Bubble Bobble is regarded as traditional Jeu of arcade.

Development

Bubble Bobble was conceived by Japanese Fukio Mitsuji, with whom one owes also the design of the characters. Ichiro Fujisue and Nishiyori programmed the play, and Tadashi Kimijima carried out the sound environment. Although original, Bubble Bobble has similarities with two preceding plays of Taito, Chack' N Pop (1983) and Fairyland Story (1985): enemies in resembling commun runs and an architecture of the levels.

English of Software Creations developed conversions Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum, which was published by Firebird in Europe and Taito with the the United States.

  • Programming: David J. Broadhurst, Stephen Ruddy (C64)
  • Graphics: Andrew Threlfall
  • Music: David Whittaker (Amiga) , Tim Follin (ST, CPC, ZX) , Peter Clarke (C64)

The American studio Novalogic developed the versions APPLE II and DOS.

The series

The success of Bubble Bobble generated several continuations, they-also carried or declined on various Micro-ordinateur S or console S. a derived series Puzzle Bobble , it-also very popular was born in 1994.

Episodes

  • 1986 - Bubble Bobble
  • 1987 - Rainbow Islands
  • 1990 - Parasol Stars
  • 1993 - Bubble Bobble Leaves 2
  • 1994 - Bubble Symphony (Bubble Bobble 2)
  • 1995 - Bubble Memories
  • 2002 - Bubble Bobble: Old & New
  • 2005 - Bubble Bobble Revolution
  • 2007 - Bubble Bobble Evolution

The derived series: Bubble puzzle

See also: Puzzle Bobble (series)

Puzzle Bobble , also known in occident under the name of Bust-a-Move , is a series of puzzle ranges putting in scene characters of Bubble Bobble . Appeared in 1994 on Terminal of arcade, she is very appreciated and was related to many supports. The series includes/understands five plays of arcade:

Notes references

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