Home of the Underdogs
About News FAQs Contact HOTU GoogleGroup Music Manuals
Category Applications Action Adventure Education Interactive Fiction Puzzle Role Playing Games Simulation Special Sport Strategy War




Support the EFF
Welcome How you can help
Browse Games
Welcome Random Pick
Welcome By Company
  Welcome By Theme  
Welcome By Alphabet
Welcome By Year
Welcome Title Search
Welcome Company Search
Welcome Designer Search
Recommended
Welcome Freeware Titles
Welcome Collections
Welcome Discord
Welcome Twitter
Welcome Facebook
Welcome File Format Guide
Welcome Help: Non PC Games
Welcome Help: Win Games
Welcome Help: DOS Games
Welcome Recommended Links
Site History Site History
Legacy Legacy
Link to Us Link to Us
Credits Thanks & Credits
Abandonware Ring

Abandoned Places

dungeoncrawlers.org

Creative Commons License


Game #3230
Super Bubble Mania   Collection: Indie Underdogs
Action   Arcade

Rating: 7.64 (25 votes)

Super Bubble Mania box cover

Super Bubble Mania screenshot
Dinosaur Balls and Super Bubble Mania are fun, cute arcade-style games that boast identical gameplay despite being made years apart by two different companies. In both games, you control either a boy or a girl who has to pop balloons that bounce around the screen, against pretty backdrops (dinosaur graphics in Dinosaur Balls justify the name, although it has nothing at all to do with gameplay). When you pop a balloon, it splits into two smaller-sized balloons, so you must continue to pop them until they are small enough to disappear. You pop the balloons by shooting arrow rays upward, while at the same time trying to avoid being hit by them. Although the game is quite difficult, the arrow rays you shoot stay in the air for a while and can destroy any balloon that comes into contact, making your job a bit easier because you don't have to aim that well. Two players can play together in hot-seat mode, and there are many bonus items to collect (my favorite is the one that freezes all balloons on the screen for a few seconds).

Released five years after Dinosaur Balls, Super Bubble Mania upgrades the graphics and adds more gameplay styles including "crazy mode" where you must contend with balls of different shapes and physics, and "mania mode" where huge balloons make the game much more challenging. Overall, both games are well worth a look, but be warned that they are far from easy -- you will soon find yourself running away from dozens of tiny balloons that bounce wildly across the screen. Fun, but I find Pea Shootin' Pete more varied and manageable than these two underdogs.

Reviewed by: Underdogs
Designer: Vectorman
Developer: Delphic Oracle
Publisher: Webfoot Technologies
Year: 1997
Software Copyright: Delphic Oracle
Theme: Cartoon, Shareware
Multiplayer:  
None that we know of
System Requirements: DOS
Where to get it:   Delphic Oracle
Related Links:  
Links:    
If you like this game, try: Dinosaur Balls, Pea Shootin' Pete, Bubble Bobble

© 1998 - 2024 Home of the Underdogs
Portions are copyrighted by their respective owners. All rights reserved. Please read our privacy policy.