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Bomb Bee

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The maximum number of players is two, and the two players have to alternate. The control is a rotary analog stick. The main object of the game is to move two paddles that ricochet a ball which flies around and needs to hit the colored bricks above it. When the bricks are cleared out of the side
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sections, it will turn that same side's pop-bumper into 100 points instead of 10. It is a bonus multiplier to get the ball to light up the word "NAMCO".
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was largely the same as its predecessor. However, he noted that the game's usage of a full-color display, and being among the earliest creations by
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is notable for being the first appearance of a third-party title on a Nintendo console, and being among Iwatani's earliest creations before
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was not a success when it was released. According to Matt Barton, the author of the book
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SMG Szczepaniak. p. 201. 319:marks the first collaboration between Namco and 361: 407:The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers 294:to arcade owners in order to clear inventory. 232: 8: 577:"Nintendo / Namco Bomb Bee-N (ボムビーN, 1979)" 303:said that outside a few minor differences, 286:proved successful, Namco offered to bundle 182:, which was released in the previous year. 210: 30: 21: 651:Multiplayer and single-player video games 457: 455: 378: 342: 297:Retrospectively in 1998, Earl Green of 536: 534: 7: 404:Szczepaniak, John (11 August 2014). 215: 575:Voskuel, Erik (30 September 2012). 552:. 14 September 2018. Archived from 234: 206: 14: 441:. The International Arcade Museum 253: 248: 243: 238: 233: 671:Video games developed in Japan 1: 176:in 1979. It is the sequel to 495:Barton, Matt (8 May 2019). 472:. All Media. 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Index


Developer(s)
Namco
Publisher(s)
Nintendo
Designer(s)
Toru Iwatani
Programmer(s)
Platform(s)
Arcade
JP
Genre(s)
Block breaker
video pinball
Single-player
multiplayer
arcade game
Namco
Gee Bee

AllGame
Galaxian
AllGame
Toru Iwatani
Nintendo
Pac-Man
Japanese
Hepburn
"Bomb Bee N"
The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers

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