Magic Bubble

Arcade Video game published 26 years ago:

Magic Bubble (c) 1998 Yun Sung.

Group 3 or more bubbles of the same colour together to make them disappear. Clear the screen before they reach the bottom or before your opponent clears their screen. Magic Bubble is a very obvious copy of Taito's sublime "Puzzle Bobble" series.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM3812 (@ 4 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 8 Khz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 320 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 8192

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 1

- TRIVIA -

This game is a hack of "Puzzle Bobble 4". The level design, gameplay, and map layout are identical to Puzzle Bobble 4. The bubble and block graphics have been slightly changed, and the music and backgrounds have been replaced by ones from other sources. Some of the backgrounds have been ripped from "Earthworm Jim 2", and "Rayman". There is no copyright date found on the title screen, but "Puzzle Bobble 4" was released in December 1997, so "Magic Bubble" can't be older than 1998.

Default highscore table (RANKING) :
1 THANK YOU 500000
2 YUN SUNG 90000
3 MR KANG 80000
4 MR LEE 70000