27th December 2011
César Nicolas González, better known as CNGSoft, has finally released BB4CPC to the Amstrad CPC community as a Christmas present – albeit a day late! It's a remake of Bubble Bobble for the CPC.

As you may know, an official conversion of Bubble Bobble exists for the CPC, and although I wrote a fairly positive review of the game way back in the early years of this web site, it was not converted very well. There was no music and very few sound effects, the graphics lacked colour, and it just didn't feel like the arcade coin-op version at all. César certainly thought so, and his own remake is far more faithful to the original coin-op, with brightly coloured graphics, a rendition of the theme tune provided by French CPC user Hervé Monchatre (also known as Tom et Jerry), a plethora of bonuses to collect, and two possible endings. What's more, it can also be played on any CPC machine, even those with only 64K of memory!

César has been working on the game on and off for nearly three years, and the results are extremely impressive. This is definitely my favourite CPC release of 2011, and it has now become one of my favourite CPC games of all time! You can download the game from CNGSoft's web site; just click on the "Bubble Bobble 4 CPC" logo once the page has loaded.

Let's hope that 2012 will bring more new, high quality games for the Amstrad CPC!