Hooray! PSP! Yep, we’re currently working on a PSP run... dug the Lenkeng out of storage (it still performs better than the Xrgb/Elgato combo) for this one and I’ve got A LOT of titles to go through. Anyone who knows me knows how much I love the PSP... it is criminally underrated, which is saying a lot because it had a ton of releases and enjoyed more than ten great years on the market, so it’s hardly what you’d call unsuccessful, though it was considerably undercut by exploits and piracy which was both a blessing and a curse (this meant a boost in hardware sales but a slump in software sales). That said, not everything on the platform was buttercups and rainbows... especially not this “update“ of a beloved classic.
Originally released in Arcades in 1987 by the legends at Taito, it was the sequel to one of my all-time favorite childhood games, Bubble Bobble. Playing as either Bubby or Bobby, players climbed the heights of many stages collecting treasures, discovering s