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Bubble Bobble series

Bust-A-Move

A port for Game Gear handheld devices. Controlling the dinosaurs Bub and Bob, players aim and launch colored bubbles toward the top of the screen to connect three or more of the same color, causing them to pop…

2 August 1996

Bust-A-Move is a puzzle developed by Taito, released 2 August 1996 on Sega Game Gear.

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What Bust-A-Move is

Bust-A-Move is a puzzle game developed by Taito and released in 1996. It is available on Sega Game Gear only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A port for Game Gear handheld devices. Controlling the dinosaurs Bub and Bob, players aim and launch colored bubbles toward the top of the screen to connect three or more of the same color, causing them to pop and drop any attached clusters before the ceiling crushes them.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Bubble Bobble series

Bust-A-Move is the 30th of 95 entries we hold in the Bubble Bobble series. The next entry was Bust-A-Move 3 in 1996.

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What it launched against

Bust-A-Move launched on 2 August 1996, within three weeks of Tobal No. 1 and Triple Play 97.

Released around the same time: Tobal No. 1, Triple Play 97.

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When did Bust-A-Move come out?
Bust-A-Move was released on 2 August 1996 for Sega Game Gear.

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