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Bust-A-Move Pocket

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A Neo Geo Pocket Color bubble-popping puzzle game with solo, competitive, and endless modes.

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The briefing

About this game

Bust-A-Move Pocket is a puzzle game for the Neo Geo Pocket Color, developed by Ukiyotei and published by SNK. Released on March 26, 1999, it brings the series' bubble-matching gameplay to the handheld.

Game Modes

  • Puzzle Mode: 99 puzzles drawn from earlier entries, with the first ten available from the start and best clearing times saved for each level.
  • VS Mode: Best-of-three matches against CPU opponents with different strategies or another player through a link connection.
  • Survivor Mode: An endless high-score challenge.

Gameplay

Players aim a cannon from the bottom of the field and shoot colored bubbles. Groups of three or more matching bubbles are removed. In Puzzle mode, the ceiling gradually moves downward; in the other modes, bubbles are added from above, with Survivor mode sometimes adding them from below. The game ends when bubbles reach the bottom. In VS mode, clearing more than three bubbles at once sends extra bubbles to the opponent's field.