Best of 2019: Exploring the secret depths of Bubble Bobble's design

That would bring us the rare Famicom/NES game Bubble Bobble Part 2 (1993) and arcade games Bubble Symphony and Bubble Memories.

Secrets can tell you a lot about how a game was designed, and Taito’s classic Bubble Bobble is full of them.

Taito’s popular 1986 arcade game Bubble Bobble is one of a class of game that we might call SRPPs: Single Room Platformer-Puzzle games.