History Trivia / BubbleBobble

* ReleaseDateChange: A port of ''Parasol Stars'' for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, [=PlayStation=] 4 and [=PlayStation=] 5 was planned for 2023, but got delayed for unknown reasons.

* FollowTheLeader:''Bubble Bobble'' has a few arguable imitators, ''VideoGame/SnowBros'' and ''VideoGame/SabotenBombers'' to name a couple.

* FollowTheLeader:
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6_C6zsgil0 Puzzle de Pon]]'', developed by the Visco Corporation. The game's mechanics are almost exactly the same as ''Puzzle Bobble''. The goal for each level was not to clear the board of bubbles, but to release a large "drop token" in the same way you drop hanging bubbles. Still, the gameplay was close enough to ''Puzzle Bobble'''s that Visco needed to license the game from Taito.
** ''Puzzle Bobble / Bust-A-Move'' itself has many clones out there. It's gotten to the point where the Google Play Store lists "bubble shooter" as a genre.
** ''Bubble Bobble'' has a few arguable imitators as well. ''VideoGame/SnowBros'' and ''VideoGame/SabotenBombers'' to name a couple.

* PropRecycling (sort of): Curiously, the bubbles around the player characters (used for level transitions) in the two ''Part 2'' games (''2'' for NES and ''Junior'' for Game Boy) are the same size in pixels, even though the characters themselves are of different sizes.

** In the official announcement trailer for ''Bubble Bobble 4 Friends'', the bubble dragons are displayed with their longer names and are named after the roster of ''Bubble Symphony'': Bubblun, Bobblun, [[SuddenNameChange Cururun]], and Cororon. In the final version, they go by their shortened names from ''Bubble Bobble Plus!'': Bub, Bob, Peb, and Pab.

** ''Puzzle Bobble / Bust-A-Move'' itself has many clones out there.

** In an inversion, ''Parasol Stars'' has exactly one port following its original 1991 release - that is the [=TurboGrafx=]-16 Mini plug-and-play console in 2020, a whopping 29 years later.

** ''Parasol Stars'' almost had a Commodore 64 port, but the developer's alcoholic wife destroyed his computer and all the backups for the game in a drunken rage. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer (Yes, you read that correctly.)]] Out of respect for the developer and his personal life, Ocean initially claimed his computer was stolen.

** In an inversion, ''Parasol Stars'' has had exactly one port following its original 1991 release on five systems - that is the [=TurboGrafx=]-16 Mini plug-and-play console in 2020, a whopping 29 years later.

* PortOverdosed: Both the original ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'' and some games in the ''Puzzle Bobble/Bust-a-Move'' series are exceptionally widespread games, having appeared on virtually everything able to play games since their initial releases--which includes, in ''Bubble Bobble'''s case, every home computer of the 1980s.
** In an inversion, ''Parasol Stars'' has had no ports since its original 1991 release.

* PropRecycling (sort of): Curiously, the bubbles around the player characters (used for level transitions) in the two ''Part 2'' games (''2'' for NES) and ''Junior'' for Game Boy) are the same size in pixels, even though the characters themselves are of different sizes.

* PropRecycling (sort of): Curiously, the bubbles around the player characters (used for level transitions) in the two games '' '''Part''' 2'' (NES) and '' '''Part''' 2/Junior'' (Game Boy) are the same size in pixels, even though the characters themselves are of different sizes.

** ''Parasol Stars'' almost had a Commodore 64 port, but the developer's alcoholic wife destroyed his computer and all the backups for the game in a drunken rage. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer (Yes, you read that correctly.)]] Out of respect for the developer and his personal life, Ocean initially claimed his computer was stolen.

** ''Parasol Stars'' almost had a Commodore 64 port, but the developer's alcoholic wife destroyed his computer and all the backups for the game in a drunken rage. Out of respect for the developer and his personal life, Ocean initially claimed his computer was stolen.

** ''Parasol Stars'' almost had a Commodore 64 port, but the programmer's alcoholic wife destroyed his computer and all the backups for the game in a drunken rage.

** ''Parasol Stars'' almost had a Commodore 64 port, but the programmer's wife destroyed his computer and all the backup disks for the game in a drunken rage.

** Also, the dumped prototype of ''Symphony'' shows the game was going to use a rendition of the original Bubble Bobble theme as main theme, which got used as a "secret" theme for the Classic Mode cheat in the final version.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Bubble Symphony'' has a DummiedOut witch boss, a giant female Dranko on a broomstick, who doesn't appear in the final game for whatever reason. Then again, a Dranko does appear in one of the bad ending cutscenes. Also, the dumped prototype shows the game was going to use a rendition of the original Bubble Bobble theme as main theme, which got used as a "secret" theme for the Classic Mode cheat in the final version.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Bubble Symphony'' has a DummiedOut witch boss, a giant female Dranko on a broomstick, who doesn't appear in the final game for whatever reason. Then again, a Dranko does appear in one of the bad ending cutscenes.

* PortOverdosed: Both the original ''BubbleBobble'' and some games in the ''Puzzle Bobble/Bust-a-Move'' series are exceptionally widespread games, having appeared on virtually everything able to play games since their initial releases--which includes, in ''Bubble Bobble'''s case, every home computer of the 1980s.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Bubble Symphony'' has a DummiedOut witch boss who doesn't appear in the final game for whatever reason.

* PortOverdosed: Both the original ''BubbleBobble'' and some games in the ''Puzzle Bobble/Bust-a-Move'' series are exceptionally widespread games, having appeared on virtually everything able to play games since their initial releases--which includes, in ''Bubble Bobble'''s case, every home computer of the 1980s.

* PortOverdosed: Both the original ''BubbleBobble'' and the original ''Bust-a-Move'' are exceptionally widespread games, having appeared on virtually everything able to play games since their initial releases--which includes, in ''Bubble Bobble'''s case, every home computer of the 1980s.