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Bubble Bobble series

Bust-a-Move: Deluxe

Join Bob and Bub plus new characters, never before seen games and ways to play including spooky Ghost Mode! Pop matching colored bubbles to solve puzzles in a variety of game types including head-to-head play…

60 23 March 2006

Bust-a-Move: Deluxe is a puzzle developed by Taito, released 23 March 2006 on PlayStation Portable.

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What Bust-a-Move: Deluxe is

Bust-a-Move: Deluxe is a puzzle game developed by Taito and released in 2006. It was published by 505 Game Street. It is available on PlayStation Portable only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Join Bob and Bub plus new characters, never before seen games and ways to play including spooky Ghost Mode! Pop matching colored bubbles to solve puzzles in a variety of game types including head-to-head play. Whether you are a first-timer or an expert bubble launcher, you will be sure to find brain-teasing fun in the over 1000 puzzles available in Bust-A-Move Deluxe!
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Bubble Bobble series

Bust-a-Move: Deluxe is the 59th of 95 entries we hold in the Bubble Bobble series. The next entry was Taito Legends 2 in 2006. Its critic score of 60 is 8 points below the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Space Bust-A-Move at 100.

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How it was received

Bust-a-Move: Deluxe holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Bust-a-Move: Deluxe launched on 23 March 2006, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II and Daxter. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Daxter.

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When did Bust-a-Move: Deluxe come out?
Bust-a-Move: Deluxe was released on 23 March 2006 for PlayStation Portable.

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