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Retro Gamer has given the game three positive retrospectives, two for the arcade version, and one for the PC Engine version, due to its inclusion on their "PC Engine GT: Ten Perfect Games" list, all of which praised the game for its basic, yet captivating gameplay, a trait they attributed to most other platform games made by Taito.
Hardcore Gaming 101 gave similar criticism, but argued that while "doesn't do much to be original compared to the million other Bubble Bobble-like games at the time", they concluded that it's still worth playing due to the fact that it is "another example of a good platformer game from Taito".
Hardcore Gamer, however, was more critical of the game when criticizing the fact that Bubble Bobble was a locked game in Taito Memories Jokan, claiming that while one could "make do" with it and The Fairyland Story, ultimately stated that it was "decaf when you want espresso".
In the Cross Review feature of the magazine Famitsu,the game scored a total of 23 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine,it scored 19.77 out of 30, as shown below.
In the "Cross Review" of the game magazine Famitsu it received a total of 25 out of 40; in Monthly PC Engine it received 80, 80, 80, 80 and 70 for an average of 78; and in Marukatsu PC Engine it received 7, 7, 7 and 6 for a total of 27 out of 40.
Retro Gamer has given the game three positive retrospectives, two for the arcade version, and one for the PC Engine version, due to its inclusion on their "PC Engine GT: Ten Perfect Games" list, all of which praised the game for its basic, yet captivating gameplay, a trait they attributed to most other platform games made by Taito.
Hardcore Gamer, however, was more critical of the game when criticizing the fact that Bubble Bobble was a locked game in Taito Memories Jokan, claiming that while one could "make do" with it and The Fairyland Story, ultimately stated that it was "decaf when you want espresso".
Game Machine listed it as the twelfth most-successful table arcade unit of the month in their August 15, 1989 issue.
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