8. Puzzle Bobble

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Puzzle Bobble is a tile-matching arcade puzzle video game for one or two players created by Taito Corporation in 1994. It is based on Taito's popular 1986 arcade game Bubble Bobble, featuring characters and themes from that game. Its characteristically 'cute' Japanese animation and music, along with its play mechanics and level designs, made it successful as an arcade title and spawned several sequels and ports to home gaming systems.

Gameplay

This is the screen when a player playing alone (1 player mode). Player plays against time only. In order to win the game, player has to clear the play field by matching the same color balls (Colors consist of yellow, red, blue, and green). Player has to shoot the ball, and try to match the color. The ball will be removed from the play field if three or more balls on the play field are matched with the player's ball shot from the pointer. After a period of time, if the game went too long, the play field will be more cramped (the balls on the play field are getting closer to the player). Player will lose if he/she could not able to clear all of the balls on the play field in a period of time. 

It offers 2 players mode as well!  Here, the players play against each other and time. It's quite challenging. The game play is about the same.

Interactivity

One of actions involved in this game is the pointer to the left and to the right (approx 90 degree: 45 to the left, and 45 to the right). Player also could shot the ball using a button (based on the settings).


Concept

It's like a puzzle game with color based.


Goal

The goal of this game is to clear those balls on the play field by matching the color. Player matches the color and shoots the ball from the pointer. There are several stages that could be done in order to win the game (1 player mode).

Challenge

The challenge is that there are several different colors, and also there might be difficulty when trying to match the ball with the same color (other balls might block the way).

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