Lost In Translation/Puzzle Bobble 4

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Puzzle Bobble 4
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Manufacturer Taito Corporation
Released 1997
Control
Method
8-way Joystick
Dial
4 Button(s)
Main CPU 68EC020 (@ 16.000 MHz)
68000 (@ 16.000 MHz)
Sound CPU Stereo
ES5505 (@ 15.238 MHz)
Video
Details
Raster (Horizontal)
320 x 232 pixels
58.97 Hz
8,192 Palette colours
Screens 1
ROM Info 19 ROMs
14,157,133 bytes (13.50 MiB)
MAME ID pbobble4 · pbobbl4j · pbobbl4u

About The Game

Puzzle Bobble 4, as its name implies, is an arcade video puzzle game.

Shoot coloured bubbles towards clusters of other bubbles. When groups of similarly coloured bubbles are formed, the bubbles burst.

Trivia

The game forbids the initials 'SEX' on the high score table. If you try, it gets changed to 'AAA'.

Updates

The US version is slightly different, it has a "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screen and a "Recycle It, Don't Trash It!" screen.

Series

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

Staff

Director
Kazuhiro Oohara
Planners
Kazuhiro Oohara
Tsukasa Ohshima
Nobuaki Kuroki
Takayasu Masaki
Base Game Designer
Seiichi Nakakuki
Programmers
Hiroshi Maruyama
Emoyan
Okazu Taiyaki
Nak
Character Designer
Miyabi Tashiro
Graphic Designers
Miyabi Tashiro
Chino Maeda
Ken Ninomiya
Mari Fukusaki
Sakotan
Debi
Kao
Kimiaki Yomo
Seiryu Kitagishi
Sound Producer
Hisayoshi Ogura (Zuntata)
Sound Director
Munehiro Nakanishi (Zuntata)
Sound Composer
Rim. (Zuntata)
Voice Actors
Hisayoshi Ogura (Zuntata)
Naoto Yagishita (Yag) (Zuntata)
Nakayama Jyotohei (Zuntata)
Mizuki.U (Zuntata)
Kumi.K
Takako.A
Chinami Nishimura (B1Produce)
Design Works
Mihoko Sudoh
Quartity (?) Warranty
Nobuhiro Koyama
Makoto Obonai
Satoshi Katsumata
Eiji Kawabata
Production Control
Seiji Watanabe
Kazuyori Masumoto
Kazuhiko Azuma
Eiji Maruyama
Takeshi Nakatani

Cabinet and Artwork

Ports

Consoles
Sony PlayStation (1998)
Nintendo Game Boy Color (2000)
Sega Dreamcast (2000)
NUON [Unreleased] (2001, "Bust-A-Move 4")
Nintendo 64
Computers
PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (1999)


The contents of this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
The sources used include MAME (version 0.113u2) and history.dat (revision 1.28 - 2008-10-18).
Please see http://www.arcade-history.com for credits.