MAME:Bubbles Gameplay

This is my 2ND Gameplay Video!Today it's Bubbles created by Williams!The Only thing that is messed up is the sound when you get the items.Enjoy!

Bubbles (c) 1982 Williams.

In Bubbles you control a cartoon soap bubble inside a large sink. The object of the game is clean out the sink. You can safely scrub away ants, grease, and crumbs all the time. But sponges, roaches, brushes, and razor blades are deadly to a small bubble. Don't worry too much though, because your bubble grows in size as it swallows up the dirt in the sink. When it gets big enough it will be able to hit brushes and sponges (but still not razors).

- TECHNICAL -

Bubbles was available in two different upright cabinets, a standard wooden one, and the more uncommon plastic DuraMold cabinet. A mini (or cabaret) cabinet, and a cocktail. All five different varieties are pretty rare. On top of there being five different cabinets, there were also two different ROM revisions (the 'Red' and 'Blue' revisions). Making a grand total of ten different Bubbles machines.
* The standard upright is in a dark blue cabinet (which is identical to one of the alternate "Robotron - 2084" cabinets). It is decorated with painted sideart of a bunch of bubbles coming up from a drain. The marquee matches the design of the sideart perfectly (a 'Bubbles' logo on a dark blue background, some of them also showed the main character, but many of them did not). The control panel features an 8-Way optical joystick that has an incredible feel, but is prone to breakage.
* The DuraMold cabinet was a round cabinet made completely out of thick plastic. This was an experiment in making an indestructible arcade cabinet that would last forever. There were a few other DuraMold games made, but Bubbles was the most common one by far. The DuraMold Bubbles was a big blue plastic cylinder with no sideart. It had a curved marquee on top that had the same graphics as the standard upright. The control panel had the same joystick that the upright model used, but the graphics on it were more detailed (cartoon images of characters from the game, as opposed to a simple design).
* The cabaret and cocktail models were identical in design to their "Robotron - 2084" counterparts. Both of these had very limited production runs.

Main CPU : M6809 (@ 1 Mhz)
Sound CPU : M6808 (@ 894.75 Khz)
Sound Chips : DAC (@ 894.75 Khz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 292 x 240 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette Colors : 16

Players : 1
Control : 8-way joystick

- TRIVIA -

This title was designed to be a fun, non-violent, 'clean' game, so the design team of Angelo and Kotlarik came up with the idea of a game based on cleaning, which was then implemented by programmer Murphy.

Yashiro Oda holds the official record for this game with 1, 566, 960 points on August 1, 1984.

A Bubbles machine was shown at the 2003 classic arcade games show 'California Extreme' in San Jose, California.

- STAFF -

Program, design and sounds by : John Kotlarik (JJK), Tim Murphy (TIM)
Art and design by : Python Anghelo (ANG)
Support software by : Dave Rzepka
Hardware by : Chuck Bleich, Greg Wepner
Mechanical by : Leo Ludzia, Gary Berge.
Video manager : Ken Lantz

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
Sega Saturn (1996, "Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits")
Sony PlayStation (1996, "Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits")
Sega Dreamcast (2000, "Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits Vol. 1")
Sony PlayStation 2 (2003, "Midway Arcade Treasure")
Nintendo GameCube (2003, "Midway Arcade Treasure")
Microsoft XBOX (2003, "Midway Arcade Treasure")

* Computers :
PC [MS-DOS] (1995, "Williams Arcade Classics")
PC [MS Windows] (1996, "Williams Arcade Classics")
PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (2004, "Midway Arcade Treasure")

* Others :
Tiger Game.Com ("Arcade Classics"

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• MAME
• Bubbles
• Williams
• Arcade
• Games

[kendallbob]

I have this on my computer right now. and my last name is williams. you jelly?

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!