Puzzle Bobble 2 (c) 1995 Taito.
A puzzle game. Link 3 or more colored bubbles by shooting an identical colored bubble. When they are joined together, they pop.

>>> TECHNICAL DETAILS
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Taito F3 System hardware
Prom Stickers : E10
Main CPU : 68EC020 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound CPU : 68000 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound Chips : ES5505 (@ 15.23805 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 320 x 232 pixels
Screen refresh : 58.97 Hz
Palette colors : 8192
Players : 4
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 4

>>> TRIVIA
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Released in July 1995.
This game is known in US as 'Bust-A-Move Again'.
This game runs on the Taito F3 System hardware but it was re-released (licensed to SNK) on the SNK Neo-geo MVS hardware in 1999 as 'Puzzle Bobble 2 [MVS]'.
If you look closely at the bubbles, you'll notice that the enemies from 'Bubble Bobble' are trapped inside; a different enemy for each different colored bubble. The following chart shows which enemies are trapped in which color bubble :
Legend : Color of Bubble => 'Bubble Bobble' Enemy Inside
Blue => Zen-Chan
Yellow => Pulpul
Red => Invader
Green => Drunk
Purple => Monsta
Orange => Banebou
Black => Hidegonsu
White => Mighta
On the last level, you will see characters from 'Bubble Bobble' & 'Rainbow Islands'.
The game forbids the initials 'SEX' on the high score table. If you try, it gets changed to 'AAA'.
Stepehn Krogman holds the official records for this game with 75,275,450 points (factory setting).
Zuntata Records released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Puzzle Bobble Variety - ZTTL-0009) on 28/03/1997.
- SCORING -
Pop a bubble : 10 points.
Drop bubbles : the first bubble is 20, and each additional bubble scores double.
Thus : bubbles dropped score
1 20
2 40
3 80
4 160
5 320
6 640
7 1280
8 2560
9 5120
10 10240
11 20480
12 40960
13 81920
14 163840
15 327680
16 655360
17 or more 1310720
Unlike Puzzle Bobble, there is a way to get more than 1.31 million points. It's possible to get 2621440, 5242880, or even 10485760 points! To do this :
* You need 17 or more bubbles.
* One of these bubbles must touch exactly one bubble of a group of
similarly colored bubbles.
* The bubble that pops the similarly colored group of bubbles must
not touch the group of 17 or more bubbles.
Bonus points : are awarded based on how fast you completed the stage.
Time you completed points awarded
1-5 sec. 500,000
6 sec. 494,600
7 sec. 481,700
8 sec. 469,400
9 sec. 458,400
. .
. .
46 sec. 14,100
47 sec. as low as 300 or NO BONUS
48+ seconds or greater NO BONUS

>>> GAME SERIES
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1. Puzzle Bobble (1994)
1. Puzzle Bobble [MVS] (1994)
2. Puzzle Bobble 2 (1995)
2. Puzzle Bobble 2 [MVS] (1999)
3. Puzzle Bobble 2X (1995)
4. Puzzle Bobble 3 (1996)
5. Puzzle Bobble 4 (1997)
6. Super Puzzle Bobble (1999)
7. Azumanga Daioh Puzzle Bobble (2002)
8. Super Puzzle Bobble 2 (2002, Sony PlayStation 2)
9. Super Puzzle Bobble All-Stars (2003, Nintendo GameCube)
10. Puzzle Bobble Vs. (2003, Nokia N-Gage)
11. Ultra Bust-a-Move (2004, Microsoft XBOX)
12. Puzzle Bobble Pocket (2005, Sony PSP)
13. Puzzle Bobble DS (2005, Nintendo DS)
14. Space Puzzle Bobble (2008, Nintendo DS)
15. Puzzle Bobble Wii (2009, WiiWare - Nintendo Wii)

>>> DESIGNERS / PROGRAMMERS / STAFF
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Game designer : Seiichi Nakakuki
Character designers : Kazuhiro Kinoshita, Baw Baw (Bawbaw), Ko-Ji Terada, Kat, T. Akitsu-Osaru-, Rie Amino, Uoosy Maler, Yuko Kajihara, Ryota Sasaki, Yasunobu Kousokabe, Miwa Kamiya, Rieko Kobayashi, Miyabi Tashiro, Masami Kikuchi, Anpanmanda, Saori Hiratsuka, Vap Corp.
Programmers : Hiroshi Maruyama, Junichiro Noguchi
Sound (Zuntata) : Nakayama Joutohei, Kazuko Umino, Yasuko Yamada, Syu
Designers : Kumi Mizobe, T. Yoshiba, M. Osaka, Y. Mori

>>> GAME PORTS TO OTHER SYSTEMS
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* Consoles :
Sony PlayStation (1996)
Nintendo 64 (1998, 'Bust-A-Move 2')
Nintendo Game Boy (1998, 'Bust-A-Move 2')
Sony PlayStation 2 (2005, 'Taito Memories Vol. 2')
Microsoft XBOX (2006, 'Taito Legends 2')
Sony PlayStation 2 (2006, 'Taito Legends 2')
* Computers :
PC [MS Windows 95/MS-DOS, CD-ROM] (1996, 'Bust-A-Move-2 : Arcade Edition')
PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (2006, 'Taito Legends 2')
* Others :
SNK Neo-Geo MVS (1999)

>>> OTHER GAME RESOURCES
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Game's rom.