Jeremy Parish

NES Works #089: Bubble Bobble & Racket Attack

Added 2022-05-04 11:30:16 +0000 UTC

This should be a nice, cozy, and above all familiar episode. I've already covered Bubble Bobble on Game Boy Works, as well as its precursor Chack'n Pop (twice!), but this is the version of the game that everyone remembers. No, not literally everyone—calm down, European Master System fans—but you know what I mean; this is the Bubble Bobble adaptation that has achieved the greatest traction thanks to its contemporary popularity at launch followed by a second wave of appreciation a decade later once emulation went big.

As for Racket Attack, it's a new one here. But it fits nicely alongside Bases Loaded in many ways (having literally been created as a follow-up in the same series), and of course the TOSE/Jaleco combo should be old hat for everyone by now.