Arcade Archives: Bubble Bobble
Arcade Archives: Bubble Bobble is a port of the action game Bubble Bobble. Players control the twin Bubble Dragons that are called Bubblun and Bobblun, and travel through one hundred different stages. The game…
Arcade Archives: Bubble Bobble is an arcade developed by Taito, released 29 January 2016 on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Arcade Archives: Bubble Bobble is
Arcade Archives: Bubble Bobble is an arcade game developed by Taito and released in 2016. It was published by Hamster Corporation. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Arcade Archives: Bubble Bobble is a port of the action game Bubble Bobble. Players control the twin Bubble Dragons that are called Bubblun and Bobblun, and travel through one hundred different stages. The game became popular and led to a long series of sequels and spin-offs. The main goal of the game is to rescue their girlfriends from the Cave of Monsters.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Bubble Bobble series
Arcade Archives: Bubble Bobble is the 79th of 95 entries we hold in the Bubble Bobble series. It arrived a year after Bubble Bobble for Kakao. The next entry was Bust-A-Move Journey in 2017. Its critic score of 80 is 12 points above the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Space Bust-A-Move at 100.
How it was received
Arcade Archives: Bubble Bobble holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 12 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Arcade Archives: Bubble Bobble launched on 29 January 2016, within three weeks of The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2 and Yakuza Kiwami. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2, Yakuza Kiwami.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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