Puzzle Bobble

Right.

And then not long after that, the local video store got MVS and they had Fatal Fury 2 and Puzzle Bobble, one of them.

And that was when I first played one.

Yeah.

when i started running it on a sandisk sansa which i picked up you know i picked a couple up for a song on on clearance prices you know years and years ago i i think i was motivated to install rockbox because i like the idea of having more control i liked the support for lossless flax which are what i rip my audio cds to i'll then you know mp3 it if i need to get it onto something else or you know something i really don't care about need to save space But the other really cool thing about Rockbox is that you're getting a proper extensible operating system.

There are a bunch of native plugins, and yes, it does run Doom, along with a ZX Spectrum emulator, a chess game, a Bust a Move clone, which I actually found myself playing a lot more than I expected to.

That game had never appealed to me, but I think having...

Because the SanDisk Sansa has a wheel interface, and it's a very satisfying game to play with a click wheel.

I have my little Game Boy emulator that emulates all sorts of old games.

And he's been playing Bust-a-Move, which is a...

I've seen it, yeah.

Which is a character-driven, match three balls to match the color, and then you race against the clock, and you can play against the computer.

That's the fourth mode you can play in the game.

And this one feels the most like a puzzle game that would be similar to, yes, Puzzle Fighter, but also like Bust a Move or Tetris, where there is a threat happening.

You're playing until you fill the screen like Tetris, and then it's game over.

So you try to see how high of a score you can get by clearing these colors as the lines of colors are changing.

There are some arcades around, but a lot of them are just ticket machines.

As in, there's very little, like, games as in, like, like your classic arcade game, like Donkey Kong, Metal Slug, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Puzzle Bobble, Bubble Bobble.

You know, like the classics, actual video games and not just, and not trying to just get a high score and get tickets.

Games that were, like, games that were games.

They did Samurai Shodown 3, they did Metal Slug in '97, and then a second one in '99.

And Bust A Move Pocket.

Never played that game, but that sounds very interesting.

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... which one?

I, I-

Bust A Move Pocket?

Bust A Move Pocket.

a Move episode.

It's $23 for Bust a Move.

Again, I don't love the Super Nintendo version.

Not the best game in the series, but, you know, it's something.

She fights with a, uh, a net and hook like a, a gladiator.

So, um, as far as other things that I played, Dan was, uh, screwing around with the Pandora's Box in the garage, and I played, like, an hour of Puzzle Bobble.

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So there's a little bit of that game.

And there's also maybe Bust-a-Move.

Yeah, a little bit of Bust-a-Move going on as well.

So you're just basically matching fruit types with each other, and as you match them up they don't explode, they then expand into a bigger fruit.

And then, then they, then they match up and then it's turned into a bigger fruit, and it gets really quite silly.