/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8705301
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Taito arcade platformers from the 1980s.

Is that the level where the bubbles gravitate towards the middle and you have to hop on them? Yeah, that one's pretty tough.

I've been playing this game on all kinds of devices and emulators varying from shitty java phones to desktop pcs for literally decades now. I used to especially love this back in school on my s40 nokias. I fucking love bibble bubble.

>>8705331
there is a column in the middle where the bubbles will stay put, but otherwise they move to the sides. maybe it's just a fuckup in the NES version, but this level fucking sucks. I eventually managed to beat it by waiting until the "hurry up!", afterwards there's an opening on the right edge long enough to bubble jump up.

>>8705362
That's what is meant to happen.
Get in the middle and jump on your bubbles while blowing more to create higher jumping points.
This is fundamental shit you will need to learn.

>tfw you get an umbrella that lets you skip it

>>8705301
>it was at this moment I realized this game was not made by friends who wanted me to have a good time, it was made by dickheads who wanted to see me suffer
First time playing an NES game, I take it? Most of these games were made by sociopathic Japanese salarymen who hated children.

>>8706248
There's also a weird effect that happens to devs where the game you're making seems a lot easier than it actually is. I made a space invaders clone once, and adjusted the difficulty to what I liked. Forgot about it for years. Then went back and tried to play it... filtered. Filtered hard. Couldn't even survive a minute.

>>8705301
Kids could beat this.
Get good.

>>8706230
if you stand in the middle and blow bubbles, they go to the sides. they do not stay in the middle. thanks for admitting you have never made it to stage 57.

>>8705301
Filtered.

Anyone know if the NES version follows the arcade version's powerup logic? In the arcade, powerups appear after a certain number of events happen. For example, after X bubbles pop, powerup Y spawns. Is it the same on NES or is it just random?

>>8706273
Taito play test their stuff using hundreds of japanese schoolkids, this is how the difficulty levels are set, not by the devs skills.

>>8705301
yeah, the game was already getting tough and it became absolute bullshit there
It's unfortunate because the game is good fun to play but it's bogged down by the absolutely insane difficulty

>>8706509
I believe it still does

>>8706304
People should stop using this argument, kids are not idiots and they're mental sponges at that age. The average kid will always be better than the average adult at video games.

>>8706304
Kids struggled with this. I know because I was that kid. This stage brought me many a game over, and most of my childhood runs of Bubble Bobble stop here until a concentrated effort to get past it. Or a lucky umbrella.

>>8706509
I know for a fact that's how the NES logic works. I didn't know that's how the Arcade version worked.

>>8705301
I still remember this damn level's password. FEJJJ (or FEJAJ if you're on your Super Bubble Bobble run)

>>8708475
People should stop whining and get good

>>8706248
>Most of these games were made by sociopathic Japanese salarymen who hated children.
Bubble Bobble's designer thought this game would be good to play with your girlfriend on a date. This is referring to the arcade version that has cryptic secrets missing from the NES version.

>>8708691
What does it mean

semi-related: I just found out I had this in my collection. I don't remember buying or playing it. I don't have my Saturn set up right now. Is it any good?

>>8708691
Cryptic and nauseatingly cute is such a weird combo. I don't hate it though.

This is the game
that doesn't end.
100 levels.
And start again.

>>8708794
I too am curious
>>8709137
Based and Lambchops-pilled

Never made it past these fuckers

>>8705301
I watched The Mexican Runner's video of this and he cleared it in about 4 attempts. It's just a simple pattern you have to figure out--shoot a column of bubbles up the sides of the screen to scale your way to the top where the Space Invaders are.

these fuckers

this level design is so jank, you have to half-clip through the walls to do this shit, and that stupid crystal ball disappears fast

and then this stupid door disappears if you don't get to it fast enough

THESE FFFUCKERS

>>8706304
As a kid I was filtered by the angler fish boss in Kirby's Dreamland 2.

>>8712748
TROLOLOLOLOLOLOL

>>8708810
btw fantastic game

>>8712748
I think even in 1P mode, you can press START SELECT to give player 2 one of your lives. But of course it requires you have a spare life before you pop Big Drunk's (or Grumple Gromit's if you prefer) big bubble.

>>8705301
It's really a two-player game. This level and a few others are much easier with two players. Not to mention, if I remember correctly, the "good" ending is impossible with only one player.

>>8713529
You remember correctly. >>8712748

>>8712748
But i have no friend....

>>8708691
>I enclose these magical medicine here, because those are my worst fears...

>>8713807
>nah this nigga making shit u-
>wait a sec
>rotate the letters a bit, and...
>my fucking face when

>>8713897
the first line is the alphabet