The Sega Game Gear port of Bubble Bobble may be my favorite home version of Taito's arcade classic. Which of course means it's al...

No joke, the English version of Taito's  Wanpaku Kokkun no Gourmet World , called Panic Restaurant ,  is one of my favorite side-scrolli...

At the end of my post about the Don Doko Don Famicom instruction manual , I mentioned that the manual you see here makes its predecessor ...

Don Doko Don is one of those old games that avoided pinging my radar for a lot longer than it should've done. Granted, this series ha...

Given my love of the original Bubble Bobble , you might assume I've adored this pseudo-sequel since the first time I played it. (Don...

Here's an admission that should shock no one: I've preferred female protagonists in video games to male ones since my earliest exper...

NEC's PC Engine was and is beloved around the world for a lot of reasons, including the console's small footprint, its credit card-s...

I've got to be honest here: I was more than a bit apprehensive about buying a black-and-white port of Taito's Puzzle Bobble . The ...

Before you get too excited about this portable reimagining of Taito's classic quarter-muncher--and Bubble Bobble sequel--from 1987, I h...

Although I have a pretty good memory, I'm rarely able to recall my first experiences with specific video games. Thankfully, that's...

A few weeks ago, I published a post about the manual that came with copies of Bubble Bobble bought from Japanese Famicom Disk Writer kiosks...