90 levels of 1 or 2 player 80s-style arcade fun.
Windows executable: https://pahammond.itch.io/bubble-bobble
Controls
To prevent [Up] from jumping when using controllers, press either [A] on the controller or the PICO-8 [O] button (Z on the keyboard) to start.
Player 1
[←] and [→] to move
[↑] jump
[X] fire
Player 2
[S] and [F] to move
[E] jump
[A] fire
Thanks To
- Finn and Lucas for testing
- Many low-res graphics thanks to dwedit.org & @justin_cyr
- PICO-8 for creating an awesome "fantasy console"
- https://lostcave.wordpress.com/ for providing inspiration and a few level layouts
Minified using the GEM Minifier:
https://pahammond.itch.io/gem-minify
Unminified code can be downloaded from:
https://pahammond.itch.io/bubble-bobble
dude, this is awesome! I spent 15 minutes playing this. Favorited!
Awesome! Feels really, really authentic!
One thing: Aren't the spikes on their backs supposed to pop bubbles that come from behind? In this version they push the dragons.
But geez, other than that, amazing job! I played for a few dozen levels and everything felt pretty much perfect!
Never realised that about the spikes. We'll call the pushing a "feature" :)
Thanks for the feedback its great that people are actually playing it.
Oops. Have just updated to include a link to the unminfied code at:
https://pahammond.itch.io/bubble-bobble
Such a great tribute to the original game! It's awesome :)
I played for something like an hour and reached level 39 (over several attempts), and I definitely intend to play more.
The game feels robust and bug free.
On rare occasions though, I've encountered a strange level skip to a blank level for a few seconds (I guess, since it's blank, it has an automatic win condition which triggers a new skip to the next level). I'm not sure what causes it, but it might be related to taking an umbrella, since it seemed to happen somewhat randomly after the normal +3 umbrella level skips.
In case that helps, I've played on the un-minified version from itch, on the pico-8 (thanks for sharing the code, by the way!).
Thank you. I do intend (one day) to fancy-up the title screen and title music a bit. They were rushed in at the end.
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I just saw the overview of this game over wireframe (I know it's from and old zine) and checked the game out
It's great! Wireframes criticism is something you can trust
Thank you. It was a real mission but really pleased with hot it turned out!
Bubble Bobble is one of my all time favourite games and this outstanding conversion is one of the best things I've seen on Pico-8. I also made a video for it too:
That's an excellent play through. Thanks so much.
FYI: No bonus rooms (and a few other things that I couldn't fit in such as the end of level musical notes/ rainbow collections).
Also, there are umbrellas and a couple of other power-ups (flood the screen etc).
Glowing recommendation. Thanks.
Can't believe I never commented on this. This is probably the second game I searched for (after Celeste of course). Bubble Bobble might just be the perfect arcade game IMO. This port is phenomenally good.
Perfect! Now I need cookie, pssst and a jetpac to collect all of my favorite games for zx spectrum
Awesome remake. Just got to Round 13 with a score of 33,560. Bubble Bobble is one of many arcade classics.
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