![]() ![]() You’ll have to learn how to hop on bubbles to scale vertical walls, use lightning bubbles to attack enemies along the horizontal plane, ride water bubbles down the level’s architecture and plow over enemies, and drop fire bubbles to give your foes the hot foot. As the game goes along, new wrinkles get introduced that keep things fresh. ![]() Now, just because simplicity lies at the heart of Bubble Bobble doesn’t mean this is a light, breezy romp that you’ll plow through in the course of an hour. Truly, this is some simplistic, straightforward, arcade-style action at its purest. When you’ve cleared out all the enemies on a level, you’re taken to the next stage. Our intrepid heroes attack by capturing enemies in the bubbles they blow and hopping on those bobbles to pop the enemies, all the while picking up items for points like jewels and fruits, as well as helpful items like the shoe that increases your movement and the all-important umbrella that warps you ahead several levels. Maybe we don’t want to find out that it’s not as good as we remember, maybe we just assumed “well, it’s still great, so why bother?” Regardless, we’re finally righting this wrong today, and taking a look at Taito’s 1987 classic, Bubble Bobble, for NES! French fries and jewels for everyone!īubble Bobble brings you on a fantastic adventure into a cave of monsters, where you and a buddy can team up as Bub and Bob, two dinosaur/dragon hybrid-looking creatures trying to fight their way through 100 levels, apparently in the hopes of being turned back into humans at the end of the ride. But for one reason or another, we’ve never actually sat down and put our critical eye to it. Why are we here? What happens after you die? What came first, the chicken or the egg? Why haven’t we covered Bubble Bobble yet? Really, we should’ve done this YEARS ago, it’s an NES game that I imagine 99% of the people who’ve ever played it have positive memories of, this should be a slam dunk for us. There are several great questions in life. ![]()
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