Now it is the beginning of a fantastic story! This week, one of the iconic classic game experiences made it to the Virtual Console in its NES incarnation. Bub and Bob are synonymous with video games and gamer culture, for two unsurprising reasons: 1) they're really damn cute, and 2)
Bubble Bobble is awesome. With that in mind, we thought we'd focus a bit on the cheating options available in the NES version of
Bubble Bobble.Now,
Bubble Bobble is best experienced with two players, in which case progress isn't really as important as kickin' back and having a good time bubblin' up some baddies with your dino-pal. There's a whole host of level passwords for your single-player excursions, available
where fine passwords are sold at
GameFAQs.
More interesting than the plain level passwords, however, are the "special" passwords, that give you options
beyond starting at a certain level. DDFFI allows you to access a level select mode for the "normal"
Bubble Bobble levels, and HEAGD does the same for the advanced
Super Bubble Bobble levels. BACCF starts you off with 99 lives. If you complete
Super Bubble Bobble mode, you'll get access to a sound test. Of course, by that time you'll be so freaking tired of the music, you won't want to go into a menu and listen to it again. The
music's
totally great when you haven't been playing the game for five hours, though.
Should you decide
not to employ the 99 lives code, then you and a friend can play cooperatively, or be huge jerks to each other, depending on your temperament. In two-player mode, when you die, you can pause the game and hit the Select button to steal a life from your friend.
[Jamie's awesome shoes found
here]
Japan's Virtual Console releases today are, literally, infinitely more awesome than our domestic lineup, because they exist. This week was Nintendo of America's turn to take a break from VC games to promote WiiWare, so any Virtual Console game that came out in Japan this week looks that much better in comparison to nothing.
