Trivia
Sometime in the early 2000s, Stephen Ruddy (author of the C64 conversion) attempted to port the game to mobile phones using Java. All 100 levels were copied across, including most of the movement patterns, but the game was never completed. This site has some video of what does exist.
Bubble Bobble was voted #7 in the "Top 25 Platformers of All Time" poll in Retro Gamer Magazine (Issue 37).
Contributed by
PCGamer77 
(3025) on Jul 18, 2007.
If you finished level 99 by killing the enemies you got the bad ending.
You had to get the secret key which opened up another 120 or so levels!
Bub & Bob were mutated humans who returned in human form in the sequels.
Though there have been many games based on the Bubble Bobble characters, a game called "Chackn Pop" (1984) featured several of the characters and powerups later seen in Bubble Bobble. The main character from that game, Chackn, appears as one of the level designs in Bubble Bobble and also makes cameos in most of the sequels and derivative games.
Contributed by
bubandbob (17) on Jan 23, 2000.
