When did Space Bust-A-Move come out?

Space Bust-A-Move was released on 18 December 2008 for Nintendo DS.

Space Bust-A-Move (2008) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Space Bust-A-Move

The smash-hit classic arcade game is going where no bubble has gone before in Space Bust A Move! Help the twin brothers, Bub and Bob, as you journey to distant planets to collect "Cosmo Bubbles" in order to…

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What Space Bust-A-Move is

Space Bust-A-Move is a puzzle game developed by Lancarse and released in 2008. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Space Bust-A-Move is a puzzle video game developed by Lancarse and published by Taito in Japan, and Square Enix worldwide for the Nintendo DS. It was first released in Japan under the title Space Puzzle Bobble on December 18, 2008. It was later released in North America under the title Space Bust-A-Move on July 28, 2009, and in Europe under the title Puzzle Bobble Galaxy on August 28, 2009. As with Arkanoid DS, Space Invaders Extreme and Space Invaders Extreme 2, the game is compatible with Taito's paddle controller.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

Its themes are action and fantasy.

Where it sits in the Bubble Bobble series

Space Bust-A-Move is the 70th of 95 entries we hold in the Bubble Bobble series. The next entry was Bubble Bobble Plus! in 2009. Its critic score of 100 is 32 points above the series average of 68. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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How it was received

Space Bust-A-Move holds a critic score of 100 out of 100. That places it above 99% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 35 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Space Bust-A-Move launched on 18 December 2008, within three weeks of Prince of Persia (2008), Prince of Persia, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future and Spelunky Classic. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Prince of Persia (2008), Prince of Persia, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, Spelunky Classic.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Space Bust-A-Move yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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