Posted on 02/23/2020 at 07:38 PM
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Bust-A-Move is one of my top three favorite puzzle games, right on up there with plain old Tetris and Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo. Although I hate the name "Bust-A-Move." I wish they kept the name from the overseas release, which was Puzzle Bobble. That name just makes more sense!
Anyway, I mostly played it in the arcade back then, but I did rent it on the SNES. I would've owned it on the SNES, but I didn't have as much money back then. Since now I have a bit more money to spend, I usually get any version of the game that comes out now, and have been since the Dreamcast and NEO GEO Pocket days.
I wonder if Taito wishes they would've had a more strict copyright patent on that game since now everyone copies it on mobile devices. And speaking of Peanuts games from your last blog, one of those was called Snoopy Pop:
http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2018/01/29/snoopy-pop-ios-android/
But Taito still makes Bust-A-Move games and their last one was for mobile devices as well. It's called Bust-A-Move Journey.
http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2018/01/31/bust-a-move-journey-ios-android/