Zzap!64 30

Cite as: Zzap!64 30
Original: https://archive.org/details/zzap64-magazine-030
sha256: 86c017fe3945944951196d8437ca36deb435c20157e72e30e154f4c5a04fd8a1
Archived: https://archive.org/download/zzap64-magazine-030/ZZap_64_Issue_030_1987_Oct_djvu.xml
Accessed: 2026-11-06
Licence: © Newsfield (at the time of publication); scan hosted by the Internet Archive
Credit: Scan in the Internet Archive item "zzap64-magazine-030"; the pin is the item's OCR, as DjVu XML.
Notes: Pinned for the Commodore 64 Bubble Bobble review (pp. 12-13, 97%).

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Zzap!64 reviewed Firebird's Commodore 64 version, at £8.95 on cassette and £14.95 on disk, joystick only, in October 1987, as "a stunning conversion of Taito's surreal arcade machine". It describes a journey through 100 caves, a choice of one- or two-player mode with a second player able to join at any time, the indestructible Baron von Blubba hunting the dinosaurs if a screen isn't cleared quickly enough, an extra life for forming the word EXTEND from lettered bubbles, a 100,000-point bonus, and a secret screen.	`p. 12, Bubble Bobblep. 12, Bubble Bobblep. 12, Bubble Bobblep. 12, Bubble Bobblep. 12, Bubble Bobblep. 12, Bubble Bobblep. 13, Bubble Bobblep. 12, Bubble Bobblep. 12, Bubble Bobble`	Magazine
Zzap!64 gave the Commodore 64 version 97% overall, with 92% for presentation, 84% for graphics, 87% for sound, 97% for hookability and 91% for lastability, and called it "a superlative conversion".	`p. 13 (image n12), ratingsp. 13 (image n12), ratingsp. 13 (image n12), ratingsp. 13 (image n12), ratingsp. 13 (image n12), ratingsp. 13 (image n12), ratingsp. 13 (image n12), overall verdict`	Magazine
Zzap!64's reviewers called the Commodore 64 game "unbelievably addictive" and "simply superb - a licensing triumph", and one wrote that very few games, in any format, generate as much fun.	`p. 12, first commentp. 13, second commentp. 13, third comment`	Magazine