![]() The Miniroons – tiny dragons on Rainbow Island – can’t blow bubbles like series protagonists Bubble Dragons Bub, Bob, Peb and Pab can. ![]() But I digress…ĭo puzzle games need a plot? Puzzle Bobble Everybubble has one. This is your last warning about disrespecting the Snow Bros. That popping sound you heard is editor Matt’s head exploding at that statement, if you were curious ( That’s it. ![]() But still, all of those are pale clones of the one true puzzle king in this space, in the same way (for example) that Snow Bros is a pale clone of Bubble Bobble. Yes, there’s a Puzzle Bobble clone based around a Brazilian football player, because of course there is. Sounding familiar yet? Probably so, because even if you’ve never played Puzzle Bobble, you may have played Snoods, Bubble Witch, Frozen Bubble, Magical Drop or even Ronaldinho Gaúcho: Bubbles to name but a few. Take too long and let the screen fill up, and it’s game over. Matches destroy bubbles, and connected bubbles can be dropped without penalty if they no longer have anything else to cling to. On the very slim chance that you’ve never done so, it’s a match-three puzzle game where you fire bubbles from a cannon at the bottom of the screen towards a descending stack of bubbles. Puzzle Bobble Everybubble! is the latest Puzzle Bobble title from Taito, and like its predecessors, it’s a great game – if a slightly over-familiar one for anyone who’s played a previous entry in the series. That hasn’t stopped Taito over the years, with 18 official sequels or spinoff Puzzle Bobble titles by my count under its belt, and so many clones and rip-offs that they’re not even worth counting. Related reading: Another puzzle game from a vintage series (or, in this case, two series’) that’s worth checking out is Puyo Puyo Tetris. Isn’t it nice when games developers polish an idea until it’s just about perfect from the first attempt? It certainly is, but it creates a huge problem for any subsequent sequels. ![]() Fire up a copy of OG Puzzle Bobble (or Bust-A-Move, depending on where on the planet you live) and it’s absolutely just as playable today as it was back then. I use that tense specifically because it’s one of those concepts where the developers got it absolutely plumb right from the get-go, all the way back in 1996. ![]()
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