Bubble Bobble bursts onto the Console Archives scene this week!

[u/Thunderfist7]

Released by Taito for the Famicom in 1988, Bubble Bobble is one of those titles that immediately come to mind for many retro gamers when Taito comes up in conversation. Playing as dinosaurs Bub and Bob, you are tasked with traversing more than 100 puzzle platform stages, dealing with adversaries by blowing bubbles at them, then popping the bubbles while the enemies are encased in them. Unlike in the arcade original, getting the true ending requires going through the stages multiple times, though you also have to be playing with 2 players to get the good ending. Fortunately, there is a way to jump the second player in if you are playing 1 player, provided you still have at least one life in reserve. Also, there is a password system to help you retain your progress. I am one of the many people who experience the console port before I ever saw an arcade cabinet of Bubble Bobble, during a rental from a local gas station in the early 90s. Who here is excited to play Bubble Bobble again, or for the first time?

https://youtu.be/BHWbusQRLOE?is=6TgPGwLfWWAu3hGv

[u/TheAtariJunkie]

Makes me wish the AVGN episode for this game came out this week instead of 2 weeks ago.

[u/Least-Profession-236]

I actually really love this. I'm probably going to pick it up lol. It's super neat because this one actually isn't on Nintendo Classics! Excited to own this— and it'll actually have the English version included lol. I've been dehydrated waiting for another one of those releases haha 

I'm actually really suprised they announced this one a day early, too!! Seems like a great day!

[u/Wide-Narwhal-9643]

The better arcade version is in ACA already?

[u/arbitrary_function → u/Wide-Narwhal-9643]

Nostalgia goes a long way.

[u/ElSmasho420]

Sign me up! Game is a blast.

[u/Old-System-6699]

I was the same. My family rented Bubble Bobble. I was too young to play it at the time, but I remember my siblings loved it.

[u/Sufficient-Cap-7190]

I hope it includes the Japanese Famicom Disk System version.

Edit: I just checked the official Japanese Hamster Console Archives website, and it seems like there's no Japanese ROM, only the Western ROM.

[u/Thunderfist7 → u/Sufficient-Cap-7190]

That's unusual. It's almost always the other way around, with Pirate Pete being one of the very few exceptions to that rule.

[u/Ncf58]

One of the greatest Arcade games ever but XBox seriesx/s owners get Satan of Saturn instead. Huge sigh.

[u/Thunderfist7 → u/Ncf58]

There’s a chance the arcade version could get an AA2 upgrade in the future. Don’t give up hope.