Bubbles of Fun! (Bubble Bobble)

Member Name: scuzz

Product:	Bubble Bobble
Date:	13/06/04 (184 review reads)
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====The Story====

Bubby and Bobby are two brothers who have been turned into dragons by an evil witch and thrown into caves. It's your job to guide them through the caves to be turned back into humans again, so they can return home.

====What Kind of Game Is It?====

Like most Amiga games, this is a simple platform game, that involves completing levels that consist of one screen.

It can be played as a one or a two player game so you will need two joysticks.

====The Aim====

To beat the baddies and return to being human.

====Completing the Levels====

A level is completed by killing all of the baddies. There is a time limit and if you fail to complete it withine that time"Hurry Up!" will appear on the screen and all of the remaining baddies will speed up.

If you still take a long time to win, then threatening music will appear and so will a white head. This cannot be defeated! So you must complete the level quickly whist avoiding the head thing. If you still take ages, more invinsible heads will appear and try to kill you.

TIP: When the level is about to be completed, get to the middle of the screen as sometimes, large rewards are dropped that are worth lots of points, which will help you get extra lives.

====Killing Baddies====

When you hit the fire button on your joystick, Bubby will blow a bubble. To kill the baddies, you must trap them in a bubble and then pop it.

====Extra Lives====

There are a few ways of gaining extra lives throughout the game.

The first is by collecting points through the various rewards there are for killing baddies.

The second is through challenges - see later.

And the third is through collecting letters - see next section.

====The Letters====

After the first few levels, you will start to see coloured letters floating about. Collect these as they spell the word &
quot;EXTRA". Once you have collected all the letters needed, you will complete the level you are on and get an extra life.

Watch out for green E's and yellow T's. These seem to be the two that appear the least.

====Challenges====

I call them these for want of a better word. If you see a potion bottle appear, grab it! These transform the level you are on to a timed challenge to collect all of the goodies on the screen. The person who collects the most, will - probably - get an exrta life.

====Special Prizes====

Umbrellas
These appear from time to time and are very useful. They transport you forward levels without you having to complete them.

Boots
These are run fast boot.

Cups
These do various things from sending thunderbolts, to bombs.

====Weapons in Bubbles====

On some levels you may notice bubbles floating around with thunerbolts or flames in them.

If you pop these they will help to kill the baddies quicker.

A TIP: face the opposite direction to what you want the thunderbolt to go when popping it.

====One or Two Players====

This game is much easier played as a two player game with both of you working together.

If you choose the two player option then both of you can play together.

====Graphics====

If you take into consideration that this game was first designed in the 80's then the graphics are really good.

This is a simple game so it's only right that the graphics should be simple too. There's nothing flashy about it but the players are cute.

One cute little touch in my mind, is that when a bubble bursts, the word "pop" appears!

====Sounds and Music====

The music is very annoying and if I remember correctly, there's no way of turning it off.

There is different music for different sections but it's all pretty similar.


There aren't very many sound effects, mainly things like exploding bombs.

====Game Play====

This is a very addictive game, and despite hours and hours of playing it with my sister, we never completed it.

We reached level 140 I think!

====Over All====

I like this game a lot. It's simple to play and one of few games that are good as both a one and two player game.

The only fault I have for it is that there's no save option and the game is very long.

====The Story Continues====

After defeating the caves, poor Bubby and Bobby's troubles aren't over. help them battle there way through Rainbow Islands!

Thank you for reading

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