Super Buster Bros.

 

 

This and Buster Bros. are two of my favorite games because they are different. They came out in a time when every game was a Double Dragon knock-off. Buster Bros. are more like an older-style, Arkanoid-type game. You shoot harpoons (and bullets) at bouncing bubbles and spinning hexagon things. Every one you shoot turns into two smaller ones.

 

It has great, realistic-looking backgrounds.

 

The biggest improvement over Buster Bros. is that you can now select the Panic Mode or the Tour Mode.

 

The Panic Mode is my favorite of the two. Instead of stopping between levels, this mode keeps going and going, with backgrounds changing every once in a while. There are no platforms in this mode, it's just you and the bubbles. It gets harder and harder by increasing the speed and amount of the bubbles. You get one game and no continuing in Panic Mode. If a second player is going to play, he must start from the beginning, with player one. It supposedly never ends, but I'm guessing it ends or starts over after level 99. I've made it to 80-something. How far have you made it??

The tour mode is like playing Buster Bros., only with all-new levels.

This board quit on me 4 days after I got it. Someone fixed it for me. It had the "Capcom Battery Problem." You can read about it, and how to fix it at http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/8768/. Below are some pictures of the board and it's repaired place. About a month after I had it fixed, it quit on me again. Fortunately, I was able to make this page before it quit.

 

TRICKS: If you hold DOWN while playing in panic mode, you will get 500 points ever few seconds, but at the same time, about four times the usual amount of bubbles will come out.

Also in panic mode, if you dodge the bubbles instead of shooting them for about the time it takes for the background song to repeat, you will get 10,000 points. However, the speed of the bubbles will suddenly become ridiculously fast and you almost have to die.

Watch the game demonstration and read the bottom of the screen for another trick.

 

MUSIC

I really like the music on the Buster Bros. games because it sounds like an older Yamaha keyboard.

Panic Mode

 

 

 

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7-10-2000