Bubble bobble nes
The graphics are bright, bold, and colourful, the controls are squeaky tight, and the loading is an absolute non-issue. It’s all simple, arcade fun that pretty much anyone can pick up and play. It’s a neat addition to the gameplay that can provide a more puzzle-like element when seeking to conquer and collect all of the E.X.T.E.N.D bubbles – especially when working out a route across the unlockable harder difficulty setting. They can be obstructive to our little dragon buddies during a hunt for bananas and melons, or be used as a high score tactic to gather enemies together for a cuddly mass execution. The jet streams that travel through most stages influence your bubble’s direction. Abilities include thunder bubbles that horizontally set off a pulse of lightning to eradicate foes, spit firing bubbles at a faster pace and at a greater distance, or even dispatching a time bomb bubble to ride jet streams towards a desired target, to name a few.
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Completing a segment will reward the player with a new ability which can also be upgraded by collecting letters to spell “E.X.T.E.N.D” – very much like the way extra lives are earned in the original. Each one of the five segments that your score is measured across is made up of a collection of ten stages – along with some form of tubby boss that awaits you towards the end of a run. Popping several enemies at once will kick off a combo multiplier in motive to contribute in grasping a three-star rating. The most practical way to pop them all, of course, is by using the spines sat on the cuddly little dragons’ back, which works wonders when hoarding enemies together in a cluster of suds. Pushing the direction down on the d-pad or Left Stick will allow the squishy dragons to tear through a whole heap of them in one fell swoop. It’s now much easier to hitch a ride on top of air pockets of spit to reach higher areas, as our little heroes confidently bounce rhythmically on them with a firm hold of the jump button. In this new iteration, bubbles are a bit tougher to pierce through than they were way back in 1986. The aim of the game is to entrap cute bad guys in orbs of dragon saliva then burst the little blighters off the screen to reap the tasty fruits and sugary desserts that they leave behind. If you have never played Bubble Bobble before, the rules are very simple to grasp. But rather than just having the iconic Bub and Bob blasting through a collection of single-room stages, you now get to share the joy of four-player co-op with two new adorable allies called Peb and Pab. As it happens, a brand new Bubble Bobble game has arrived exclusively for the Nintendo Switch where I can share both the arcade classic that resonates with me so dearly, as well as this swanky new updated version with my beloved family.īubble Bobble 4 Friends stays true to the original’s form of bite-sized, bubble blasting action that the late Fukio Mitsuji once originally designed for Taito. Many years have passed since then, and now I get the pleasure of watching my own children’s minds ticking and developing their own fond gaming memories.
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In fact, I adored Bubble Bobble so much as a kid, that if I were to be asked to whistle something with a gun to my head it would almost certainly be the game’s melody. I remember scribbling down level codes and stashing them in the plastic black slip folders that the cartridges would sleep in before save states became a gaming standard. It was a game so simple to understand that even she – with very limited gaming coordination – could grasp its simple but ingenious mechanics. Back to when I would convince my younger cousin to play it with me so I didn’t have to endure the pain of watching yet another bloody Doris Day musical with her. Revisiting Bubble Bobble on the NES Classic Edition takes me back to one of my earliest gaming memories.