Follow the exploits of Bub and Bob in two of the greatest arcade platform games of all time!
Bubble Bobble
The Classic is Back, with over 100 levels of frentic arcade action and bubbling fun! Bub and Bob's girlfriends have been kidnapped and it's your job to save them. Capture the villains in your bubbles and pop your way to victory.
Can you defeat the threat and save the day?
Rainbow Islands
Bub and Bob are finally back in human form, but a new threat has arisen. The people of Rainbow Islands have been captured by an evil monster, and its up to Bub and Bob to save the day (again!). Master the power of the Rainbow to shine your way to the top. Use Rainbow Attack and Rainbow Crash to defeat your foes and Rainbow Climb to send you sky-high!
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 December 2009
No qualms about the game itself - anyone buying this already knows what they want from the game. Echoing other comments I will say that when it works correctly it is exactly what you are looking for - Rainbow Islands and Bubble Bobble as you remember them. However I have found that when running this on a Vista PC (already a mistake I know) the whole affair is woeful.
For some reason, the Vista PC mostly decides that even with the 'skip frames' option checked, the game should be played at one third normal speed. Everything slows down, and the whole experience is destroyed - the music of course can't be slowed in this manner, so you have two bars of music, then it reverts back a bar and a half and starts from there again - a skipping, stutttering, amnesiac's melody - for as long as you decide to continue in your futile effort to play a fondly remembered childhood game. No compatibility mode I have yet found alleviates these problems, so if you're buying this, make sure it's not on Vista.
This is the ultimate in retro gaming. I grew up on these games and have been after shareware or emulator versions but nothing has come close to the original - until now. This is great value and will brighten up your day! Sheer brilliance
My children completely LOVED Bubble Bobble, and so did I. So a copy of the game, said to run in Windows XP, was just what I wanted. And when it works, the magic is back, the music, the silliness, the sheer fun of it, GREAT. WHEN it works. Mostly it doesn't run. The screen freezes, the keyboard ignores you, and you find yourself longing for the ALWAYS WORK EVERYTIME state of affairs that consoles give you. My advice -- oh, buy it, but be prepared to utter some unfortunate expletives at the screen on a fairly regular basis. Rainbow Island always runs, no problems, but it isnt Bubble Bobble and that's that.
