11 Facts About Bubble Bobble

Bubble Bobble is a 1986 platform arcade game developed and published by Taito.

Bubble Bobble made bubbles the core mechanic as he thought they would be a fun element that girls would enjoy.

Bubble Bobble became one of Taito's biggest arcade successes, and is credited with inspiring the creation of many similar screen-clear platform games that followed.

Bubble Bobble was followed by a long list of sequels and successors for multiple platforms; one of these, Puzzle Bobble, has become successful in its own right and spawned its own line of sequels.

Bubble Bobble was designed by Fukio Mitsuji, a Japanese game designer at Taito.

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Bubble Bobble liked the idea of the screen being filled with bubbles, and thought that popping them all at once would provide a thrilling sensation to the player.

Bubble Bobble liked to write down ideas on paper as soon as he thought of them, often flooding his office with stacks of paper filled with potential ideas for game mechanics.

Bubble Bobble often worked on holidays and late at night to come up with new ideas for the game and to perfect it.

Bubble Bobble was ported to many home video game consoles and computers, including the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Apple II, Amiga, Famicom Disk System, Nintendo Entertainment System, MSX2 and Sega Master System — the last of these has two hundred levels as opposed to the arcade version's 100 levels, and was released in Japan as Final Bubble Bobble.

In 1996, Taito announced that the source code for Bubble Bobble had been lost, leading to all subsequent home conversions to be reverse-engineered from an original arcade board.

Bubble Bobble has been listed by numerous publications among the greatest video games of all time.