IGN writes: "It's been about four years since the last time Bust-a-Move hit the Nintendo DS, so I think that's a good enough time gap for Taito to wait on its next release. The follow-up the company created for Space Bust-a-Move isn't much of an evolutionary step beyond a couple of new gameplay elements – the Cosmos Bubble is a nice addition, as is a new power-up that wipes an entire horizontal row from the screen in a single shot. It's nice to get online with the game, but it's a little bit of a let down with the sluggish lag that seems more intentional than it is a bandwidth issue. At the very least, the core fun of Bust-a-Move is intact in this update, and that's the important thing".
"Taito's arcade library remains one of the most impressive in gaming history so let's revisit 2 of their most iconic series and see which one offers better bubble-busting games." - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums
Don't forget to vote for your favourite retro bubble-buster at the bottom of the article! 🎮😄
Diehard GameFAN: Welcome back to the fourth installment of “What’s Worth Keeping?” where we help me pare my game collection down to twenty games per system. After all, I own pretty much every system, handheld or console out there and there’s no chance of me ever playing all of these games again, so it make sense to keep only the ones I know I’ll come back to regularly, giving other gamers a chance to own (and hopefully play) the titles I jettison. So far we’ve looked at the Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox and Sony Playstation. This time we’re going to look at a handheld – specifically the Nintendo DS.
Man, If I had to review all the shovelware and crap this guy has had to for the DS, I'd have trouble trying to think of good games for the system too.
GamingTrend writes: "Several puzzle games have a "Match 3" mechanic to them. Some more recent examples are Bejeweled and Puzzle Quest. One of the earliest games with this kind of mechanic was Bust-A-Move, which premiered in the US in 1994 in the arcades featuring the characters from Bubble Bobble. Since then several versions have shown up on most of the major and portable consoles. The series is still going strong with the latest iteration, Space Bust-A-Move on the Nintendo DS."
