Bubble Bobble

Bubble Bobble description

Bubble Bobble is absolutely perfect materialization of the concept of "arcade". Along with other Taito games - this Titan of the world of arcade games such as Space Invaders, Qix, or Arkanoid, it seems millions of people from all over the world with the words "arcade machine". Indeed, it is incredibly difficult to come up with something so addictive and annoying not to be able again and again to pass from the beginning, trying to get as far as possible. Of course, like most arcade games of the 80s, she was an interesting mode of playing together - the single player mode is, in principle, is not even provided (although, of course, nobody forbids to play one, giving the second player on the wolves, but the difficulty of the game increases seriously). Unfortunately, this game is little known in our country, but about its popularity abroad can be judged by multiple re-releases, ports on almost all available platforms from the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro and Apple II to the Wii, X-Box and PlayStation 2. What can we say, the game was ported even on calculators Texas Instruments TI-8x! Taito always late thought about the IBM PC, but, fortunately, this time the port was released only 3 years after the release of the game, whereas the sequel (which, by the way, one of the most popular games of the time on the Amiga platform) - Rainbow Islands - never saw the light of day on PC.

But now let's return to the game. In it we have embodied in the two dinosaurs who need to pass one after the other a huge number of caves, destroying them all monsters. The main weapon of the dinosaur serve bubbles that they can blow out and you need to catch monsters, then you need the bubble to burst by the dinosaur (apparently, that's what the spikes on the back!). The levels represent the screen with platforms, which typically focused on a vertical (i.e., falling down, go up, and Vice versa). Otherwise, at first glance, it is absolutely primitive. But pretty quickly realize that if the game just randomly jump and shoot to the right and to the left, you will not go far. Some levels are very easy, but from time to time they are interspersed with levels, where without the right tactics, you can lose almost all of life. The fact that the game has a lot of bonuses: in addition to the usual berries and precious stones, bringing the glasses requires the use of special water balloons, which, when burst form the water flow, sweeping away everything in its path, also there are balls of "lightning" that fly horizontally and can get places you don't get bubbles. There is also a more rare bonuses, allowing, for example, to shoot fire. In addition, you should not trust all the walls - many of them can go. In General, the geometry of the levels and the location of the monsters worked out very carefully and thoughtfully. Unfortunately, we must consider how the passing game will not give you need to play very quickly, because the enemies after a short time, go into aggressive mode (the rate increases several times) and just calm down when they kill our heroes. And that's not all - if you still have to wait, it appears unkillable Ghost, which at first slowly and then faster he pursues the player.

Special mention deserve the monsters: each type of threat on its own. Even the simplest form - "robots" - can show a semblance of intelligence when I see it; fortunately, they do not always. More complicated is the case with the ghosts that shoot fire. But the most unpleasant enemies are slugs that fly diagonally and can bounce off any obstacles. When a lot of them, but still evil, you will have to show the wonders of resourcefulness, not to spend all your lives in one level. By the way, lives here quite a lot - continue 10, each with 4 life. But, unfortunately, fatal contact with the monsters is quite a common thing, so in a single game to reach even level 20 won't be easy.

The game is recommended to fans of classic arcade games in the first place, and especially for those who like to play together. But, of course, the game is to see all as an example of great implementation of a great idea and as one of the most famous arcade games in General. By the way, among other things, this game first appeared different endings.

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Source: Archive.org, Mobygames.com