The game is the sequel to Bubble Bobble from the previous year, and it is the second of four arcade games in the series . The game was ported to home computers and home video game consoles. The "bubble dragons" of the first game, Bubblun and Bobblun appear in Rainbow Islands in their human forms as...
The game is the sequel to Bubble Bobble from the previous year, and it is the second of four arcade games in the series . The game was ported to home computers and home video game consoles. The "bubble dragons" of the first game, Bubblun and Bobblun appear in Rainbow Islands in their human forms as "Bubby" and "Bobby". Also unlike the first game, players must now "alternate" , with player one as Bubby , and player 2 as Bobby . Following the events of Bubble Bobble, Bubby and Bobby set out to defeat the "Dark Shadow" and rescue the Rainbow Islands. Each island provides four rounds of game-play, and once these are complete the player moves to the next island in the chain. In each round the player must get to the top before the sea level rises and kills them. If players take too long in a level, water will start to rise up from the bottom of the stage, and will kill the player character if it rises above his head. Like Bubble Bobble before it, the game has multiple endings. To get the "True and Happy" ending the player must find and complete the three secret islands . To get a big diamond, the player must collect seven different-colored small diamonds on the island and finish the round. If the small diamonds are collected in the correct order, the player will get to a secret room at the end of each island, which contains a permanent power up. The color of the small diamonds depends on where the fallen enemies land, so the player can somewhat determine which diamond colors will drop. The scoring system also has secrets, which allow vastly higher scores to be achieved than normal. The European Master System port contains a bug that crashes the game after Level 7, sending the player back to the title screen.