There’s an excellent breakdown of all of the code, which you can read here if you’re so inclined, and it’s a good thing it’s been done, given that Taito itself apparently lost the source code back in the mid 1990s. Strictly Limited Games limited release, 39.99 each. It features two cute bubble dragon critters named Bubblun (aka Bub) and. Pop 35 or more, and it’ll be the fast bubble sweet instead. Bubble Bobble 4 Friends, officially licensed Nintendo Switch game. Bubble Bobble is a classic arcade platformer made by Taito and released in 1986. Originally released in 1986, Bubble Bobble is a colorful platform video game with a fiendishly addictive two player co-op mode, which quickly became an. Blow 35 bubbles in a level, and in the next you’ll get a long range bubble sweet at normal difficulty. Want more of those sweet, sweet powerups? Again, they’re not random, but appear based on a set of constant counters that tick over relating to your game actions.

You can’t play it for all that long without working that chained bubbles give you high scores, but bubble control also allows you to control your score, which lets you get extra fruit at the end of each level, as long as the tens and hundreds column of your score is identical, unless you’re playing two player, in which case they’ve got to both match (but don’t need to match within your score). There’s a strong suspicion that almost everything that happens in Bubble Bobble is randomly generated, because, hey, who had the power for complex AI back in 1986?īubble Bobble’s particular secret - and pat yourself on the back if you knew this, but at least anecdotally it seems there’s a lot of folk who don’t - is that almost everything that happens in the game isn’t random at all, and if you know what you’re doing, you can do very well out of its predictability. Because Bubble Bobble hides a secret, and it’s one that I’ve found not all that many people know. It’s also obviously a title that Kotaku’s written about a whole lot in the past, right? Well… when I went searching, I found that this wasn’t so, and that got me more than a little concerned. INSIDE THE STEEL CAGE!īut be warned: I’m going to quickly tag out to this guy. In any case, my love of Taito’s bubble blowing dragons is rather well known, and I’ll personally take on anyone who dares disparage it.

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