{"id":1137,"date":"2015-07-20T15:31:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T20:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2015-07-22T09:23:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T14:23:40","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-bubble-bobble-on-ps1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1137\/retro-scan-of-the-week-bubble-bobble-on-ps1","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Retro Re-Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/bubblebobble_playstation_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/bubblebobble_playstation_small.jpg\" alt=\"Bubble Bobble Also Featuring Rainbow Islands PlayStation PS1 PSX MS-DOS advertisement - 1996\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;100% Rendered Black Void&#8221; &#8212; I like the humor in this ad<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the mid-1990s, much to my delight, game publishers began remaking and re-releasing classic games of the 1970s and 1980s in collections on Mac, PC, and consoles.  You remember &#8212; I&#8217;m talking about titles such as <em>Microsoft Arcade<\/em> (1993), <em>Atari 2600 Action Pack<\/em> (1995), the <em>Namco Museum<\/em> series (1995-1998), <em>Arcade Classic No. 1: Asteroids \/ Missile Command<\/em> (1995), <em>Williams Arcade&#8217;s Greatest Hits<\/em> (1996).  Even <em>Super Mario All-Stars<\/em> (1993) counts to some extent.<\/p>\n<p>That happened to be around the same time I started collecting old video game and computer systems, roughly in 1993, so I was happy that the industry seemed to be rediscovering these &#8220;forgotten&#8221; classics.<\/p>\n<p>The awkwardly titled <em>Bubble Bubble Also Featuring Rainbow Islands<\/em> falls into the same category, being a re-release of the arcade version of <em>Bubble Bobble<\/em> and its sequel <em>Rainbow Islands<\/em> on PlayStation 1 and MS-DOS.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From GamePro, October 1996, p.5]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> In your opinion, what are some of the best executed game retro remakes and re-releases?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;100% Rendered Black Void&#8221; &#8212; I like the humor in this ad In the mid-1990s, much to my delight, game publishers began remaking and re-releasing classic games of the 1970s and 1980s in collections on Mac, PC, and consoles. You remember &#8212; I&#8217;m talking about titles such as Microsoft Arcade (1993), Atari 2600 Action Pack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,13,27,26,9],"tags":[213,150,869,1139,205,649,359,647,1141,1142,60,548,1140],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","tag-213","tag-advertisement","tag-arcade","tag-bubble-bobble","tag-gamepro","tag-ms-dos","tag-playstation","tag-ps1","tag-rainbow-islands","tag-re-release","tag-retro-scan","tag-sony","tag-taito"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}