Xbox 360

Bubble Bobble Neo!

PlatformArcade

Overview

Bubble Bobble Plus! (Known in Japan as Bubble Bobble Wii) is a platform video game developed by Taito and Dreams, Inc., and a remake of the 1986 arcade game Bubble Bobble. It was originally released for WiiWare in Japan on February 10, 2009, in the PAL regions on April 10, and in North America on May 25. It was later ported to the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service under the name of Bubble Bobble Neo!) and released on August 5, 2009 in Japan, and in North America and Europe on September 16.

As in previous games, the player will have to defeat all enemies across multiple screens by trapping them in bubbles and popping them. The normal mode features the original two playable characters, Bub and Bob. At the same time, the Arrange Mode adds support for up to four players, joined with female characters Peb and Pab, as yellow and pink bubble dragons respectively.

The game contains several playing modes, a remake containing 100 classic stages and a new story mode with 100 new stages, as well as more difficult "Super" versions of those stages.

Bubble Bobble Plus! received "generally favorable reviews", while Bubble Bobble Neo! received "mixed or average reviews", as reported by the review aggregation website Metacritic. N-Europe praised the Wii version, saying it had a wealth of content to enjoy, while the downloadable packs were fairly reasonably priced and offered a significantly ramped up challenge from the standard levels.