Bubble Ghost1987

Bubble Ghost

1987 Accolade68Worthwhile

Playtime

BriefTypically 1 hour

Playable on

Game modes

Details

Launch: 1987
Developer: ERE Informatique
Publisher: Accolade
Themes: Action
Fantasy
Horror
Genres: Puzzle
Strategy
Indie
Arcade

Overview

The crazy inventor Heinrich Von Schinker is dead. Or so we thought until the nightwatchman told us his fantastic tale of the haunting of Von Schtinker's old castle. Yes it has been confirmed. Heinrichs' sprit (a.k.a. Bubble Ghost) has been blowing a bubble throughout the macarbe halls of his ancestral home. Your job is to help Bubble Ghost move the bubble through the 35 rooms of the castle, past all the mad inventions of Von Schtinker. Once the little ghostie makes it through, the haunting will cease.

Players71

Good

Steam71from 31 reviews

We really have come a long way in gaming haven't we!

I got this game in a bundle with a bunch of other games. I don't think I would pay the full price for it. I grew up playing Bubble Ghost on the old Commodore Amiga computer. You play as a ghost that must navigate a bubble through corridors filled with various objects. The goal is to reach the exit of each corridor with the bubble intact - avoiding contact...

Unfortunately, as £4 a pop, this is overpriced. The game doesn't particularly age well, and the gameplay is over simplistic. Obviously, with the game being over 20 years old now, it was never going to look great by today's standard, but it lacks in charm and nostalgia that other games of it's era (such as Pac-man, Dizzy or Q-Bert) are able to boast,...

I got this in a bundle for 89p from Fanatical(formerly BundleStars) with 24 other games, and this is the first one I tried, I like it, It takes up 3.03MB of disk space, and 2.32MB of that is just the DosBox executable, the main game "bubble.exe" is 37KB Press F1-F4 to start the game. Fun, use left and right mouse buttons to rotate the ghost, press spacebar...

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This 1987 classic shows it's age in many areas from control to level design. The core challenge is still there but the roughness will drive away most players.