Gaming Target - Game Boy: Super Bust-A-Move

Written by Kyle Williams on October 29, 2001

First Impressions: Bust your bubble while on the go.

While Tetris is the undisputed king of all puzzle games the Bust-a-Move series comes in a close second. This series has been around the block. From arcade uprights to your PS2, Bust-a-Move has provided hours of bubble-popping fun to gamers of all ages. Next month you will finally be able to take the bubble blowing dinosaurs on the road with you as UbiSoft brings Taito's gaming classic to the Game Boy Advance.

Like all great puzzle games, Super Bust-a-Move has a simple premise: Match three bubbles of the same color to make them disappear. Once you manage to pop all of the colored bubbles on the screen you pass the level and move on to the next. To help liven things up are several special blocks that you need to work both with and around. While the game will lack the open-endedness that made Tetris such a long living classic it will still pack in enough levels that to play them all will take a heck of a long time.

In its simplicity the Bust-a-Move series has cemented its longevity. The fact that the Super installment of the series has added more to the franchise is just icing on the cake. Like its PS2 brother, the Game Boy Advance version of Super Bust-a-Move features a horde of comically animated characters with which to play, each with their own unique ending to the game (In honesty, the endings aren't needed, but the characters are quite entertaining).

You can also take an advance link cable and hook up with one of your friends for some head to head puzzle solving action. There will be enough variety packed into the various levels and gameplay modes to keep you entertained for the entire length of a 22-hour car ride (provided you have the light source necessary to view the GBA screen).