Bubble Bobble on Nintendo DS

[poprock]

Bubble Bobble Revolution to be precise.

Here's some screenshots. It's due out in October.

[Shannow]

Oh my.

Oh my oh my.

[PapaZeb]

All this does is make me weep that Sony dropped the ball on their PSP games release schedule...but lollarious that on its 1 year anniversary, the DS will have 3 decent games.

[poprock]

I'm a tad lazy today so can't face writing up a nice news piece on the game... but since you're interested, here's the press release unedited:

The trademark New Age mode constitutes the bulk of the game. It takes the form of a single player adventure, allowing players to pick previously played levels from a map of the island where the story takes place. On a quest to rescue some missing friends, the eponymous Bub or Bob return to play through levels displayed across the two screens of the Nintendo DS. These levels also scroll horizontally to provide a wide, panoramic play area.

New secrets to unlock include a playable character designed by Harvest Moon character artist, Igusa Matsuyama, a touch screen based mini game and a devilishly mysterious method for gaining 100% completion, involving Bubble Bobble's famous food-based bonus system.

New features also abound in the levels: There are new environmental dangers, a new way to enforce the time limit, microphone-activated fans to alter the flow of bubbles and, most interestingly, a brand new power bubble. Along with series stalwarts like the torrent-inducing Water Bubble and its companions, the Fire and Lightning Bubbles, comes the Ghost Bubble; an entirely new power-up that opens up a plethora of new gameplay techniques and possibilities.

Bub and Bob also have new bubbles of their own to blow, again opening up a wide range of new tactical opportunities to exploit. Bubble Bobble Revolution also gives players a limited health bar rather than maintaining the stern one-hit kills of the original.

Bubble Bobble Revolution will also feature a brand new four-player competitive multiplayer mode. Here, combatants fight to rid levels of monsters with the victor being the player who captures the most. The fact that players can harm each other with their bubbles adds an entirely new aspect and mood to the Bubble Bobble lineage.

Those wishing for a more co-operative approach will benefit from the Classic Mode's two-player recreation of the arcade original, which also contains a single player version for those bravely wishing to be the sole conqueror of the first game in the much-celebrated series.

[Potatojunkie]

Someone needs to take the word 'Revolution' away from Nintendo, so that they can't use it any more.

[Stew]

Bubble Bobble!

[poprock]

Originally Posted by PapaZeb

All this does is make me weep that Sony dropped the ball on their PSP games release schedule...

Oh, I don't know. I've had a Japanese copy of Puzzle Bobble since February.

[Densu]

It looks like some shit java game tbh. MINCE. Iv got BB old and new for the SP canni beat it.

[Aislinn]

i got that for my gba sp. included the old school one and a new version. hours of bubbly fun!

[Disco_Stew]

youre giving me horrible memories of Puzzle Bobble VS on the N-Gage

[Timmy]

bubble bobble on the mega drive was classic.

or was it the master system? ..

either way.. fucking loved it... played it for days on end.

* Timmy ponders if it was mega drive or master system now...

[Densu]

It was released on all formats but its an arcade game.

[Disco_Stew]

I got bubble bobble for my pc ages ago, it also had Rainbow islands and a enhanced version of Rainbow Islands

[Addy]

First knew it on the Atari, then the Gameboy. What a game! I used to have the theme song as my ringtone! Tis teh roxx0rs!

[Stew]

I remember fondly the days when my friends and I would run home to my house after school and load it up on the Commodore 64 tape drive and play it for hours untill migranes forced us to stop.