Pop'n Pop

Taito F3 cart. published 26 years ago by Taito Corp.

Listed in MAME

Info

Pop'n Pop © 1998 Taito.

Pop'n Pop is a puzzle game using balloons. This is not only a puzzle game blended with a shooting invaders style game.

Move the player character with the joystick and change the position and release the balloons upwards using the 2 push buttons. Line up 3 or more of the same color balloons to pop them and clear the round by bursting all the balloons.
Many bosses appear using a variety of tricks to impede your progress.

There are 3 game modes.
- Puzzle Mode: Play by yourself or with another person to challenge the computer.
- VS CPU Mode: Play against the computer by yourself.
- 2 Player VS Mode: Play against your opponent with your selected characters.

TECHNICAL

Runs on the "Taito F3 System" Hardware.

Prom Stickers : E51

Players: 4
Control: 8-way joystick
Buttons: 4

TRIVIA

Pop'n Pop was developed by Dreams for Taito and released in February 1998 (even if the titlescreen says 1997).

All the characters in Pop'n Pop were selected from previous Taito games. Bubby&Bobby from Rainbow Islands, Sayo&Miki from Kiki-KaiKai, Bob&Jim from Don-Doko-Don, and Tiki&PyuPyu from New Zealand Story.

The game forbids the initials 'SEX' on the high score table. If you try, it gets changed to 'AAA'.

UPDATES

The US version has the "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screen.

STAFF

Producers : Yoshihisa Nagata, Tsukasa Oshima
Director : Tomohiro Nishikado
Planners : Tomohiro Nishikado, Kenichi Hiza
Programmers : Kuniaki Watanabe, Shinya Sasaki, Kenichi Murohushi, Yasuhito Nagumo, Tomoaki Kasuya
Character designer : Atsushi Haruta
Graphic designer : Kazuhiro Fujii, Miyuki Sasaki, Nariyuki Sakamoto, Atsushi Haruta
Sound director : Kenichi Kamio
Sound data : Hiroshi Nishikawa (Light Link Music)
Design works : Hidetomo Ogino
Quality warranty : Nobuhiro Koyama
Production control : Seiji Watanabe, Kazuyori Masumoto, Kazuhiko Azuma, Eiji Maruyama, Takeshi Nakatani

PORTS

CONSOLES:
europe Sony PlayStation (1998) "Pop'n Pop [Model SLES-01971]"
japan Sony PlayStation (oct.22, 1998) "Pop'n Pop [Model SLES-01971]"
europe Microsoft XBOX (mar.31, 2006) "Taito Legends 2"

HANDHELDS:
Nintendo Game Boy Color usa (dec.17, 2000) "Yogi Bear - Great Balloon Blast [Model CGB-BBXE-USA]"
Nintendo Game Boy Color europe (2001)
Nintendo Game Boy Color japan (feb.16, 2001) "Pop'n Pop [Model CGB-BJPJ-JPN]"

COMPUTERS:
europe PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (mar.31, 2006) "Taito Legends 2"
usa PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (jul.10, 2007) "Taito Legends 2"

SOURCES

Game's manual.
Game's ROMs.
Game's screenshots.