Frozen Bubble (2002)

by Guillaume Cottenceau

"Frozen Bubble" is a clone of the classic game "Puzzle Bubble" where your mission is to shoot coloured balls at a platform of balls in the top of the screen. When you stick three balls with the same colour together you remove them. The top priority is of course to not let the mass of balls grow so low that you cannot defend yourself any longer and end up being smothered in balls.... (Now close your eyes and check the mental picture).

So basically it has similarities to one of the most popular games ever called "Tetris", but with some development on the gameplay.

The trick in this game is of course to shoot the topmost balls down, since that will cause the lower balls to fall down too. As the game progresses this of course becomes increasingly difficult as the variety of colours in which the balls come grows and the platform drops faster. But it still is the same goal - to remove all balls from the screen and don't die.

There has been builds in Mac, Linux and Windows for this game, but as the Linux version was improved time and time again and no-one supported the Mac and Windowns builds, the developers decided to shut them down. It is however possible to find the game as a java-applet here.

It is possible to play this game in a single player mode (100 levels), multiplayer mode (2-5 players) or even make your own levels.

The game is very addictive so please take this into consideration before you start playing. Eat a big lunch before powering it up - you never know when you will eat again.

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