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However, even using MAME or buying your own JAMMA board might not get you the Bubble Bobble experience Mitsuji intended. Debate rages online as to which is the best home version, but for the real experience you should definitely look to the arcade. The game was ported to dozens of home systems spanning several generations. It was a game you could enjoy as a casual player, depositing a coin to pass ten minutes, or as a core player, spending all of your hard earned pocket money mastering the games many stages. Furthermore, like most great video games, the game has plenty of hidden secrets, strategies and techniques. The simple sounding concept is made into something really magical thanks to the games superb presentation, excellent graphics and catchy music.
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To clear a screen you simply defeat all the enemies. Luckily, the enemies in the game can be defeated by blowing a bubble around them and then bursting the bubble. The cave consists of 100 screens of platforms and enemies. You might consider two dragons fairly well equipped to take on monsters, but unlike conventional dragons however, the brothers can only blow bubbles. Super Mario Brothers may be regarded as the best and most influential platform game on home consoles, but when it comes to arcade platformers, gaming connoisseurs will often point to Bubble Bobble as being the best in the genre.ĭesigned in 1986 by the late Fukio Mitsuji, the game sees dragon brothers Bub and Bob (full names Bubblun and Bobblun) venture into the “Cave of Monsters” in order to rescue their girlfriends who have been captured by the evil Baron Von Blubba. The games crisp cartoon sprites have lost none of their charm.