Bust-a-Move '99
In the tradition of the Bust-A-Move series, Taito's Bust-A-Move '99 is a traditional puzzle game. The main objective is to destroy or get rid of (by dropping) all the bubbles located within the stage. Once you…
Bust-a-Move '99 is an arcade developed by Taito, released 6 November 1997 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo 64 and PlayStation.
What Bust-a-Move '99 is
Bust-a-Move '99 is an arcade game developed by Taito and released in 1997. It was published by Acclaim. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo 64 and PlayStation.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the tradition of the Bust-A-Move series, Taito's Bust-A-Move '99 is a traditional puzzle game. The main objective is to destroy or get rid of (by dropping) all the bubbles located within the stage. Once you do this, you'll graduate to the next level. While the premise may sound simple, the logic and execution is not. Using a "bubble shooter", you must aim and shoot your bubbles to the top of the screen so that you can bring three bubbles of the same color together. When you do this, the bubbles will pop. One way to earn points is to have the popping bubbles as well as the bubble that was shot fall off the screen (in multi-player, it puts these bubbles on your opponent's side). This also…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Bubble Bobble series
Bust-a-Move '99 is the 34th of 95 entries we hold in the Bubble Bobble series. It arrived 7 months after Bust-A-Move 3. The next entry was Bust-A-Move 3 DX in 1998. Its critic score of 69 is almost exactly the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Space Bust-A-Move at 100.
How it was received
Bust-a-Move '99 holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1997 averaged 65, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Bust-a-Move '99 launched on 6 November 1997, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto, NFL Blitz, Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers and Diddy Kong Racing. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto, NFL Blitz, Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, Diddy Kong Racing.
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