bro we could have had a cute witch girl as the taito mascot before she got replaced by two doofy-looking dinosaurs?!?!? I love bub and bob as much as the next guy but we've been robbed here

The game itself is a charming lil single-screen arcade game. Definitely more puzzle-platformy than the action-platformy type beats that bubble bobble would go on to have. Instead of directly attacking enemies, you turn them into cakes and can only defeat enemies by either pushing their cake form off an edge or by blasting them several times while they are still in cake form. The latter half of the game gets especially difficult as there are tons of trick levels where if you go about blasting things willy-nilly you can and WILL get yourself stuck until the hurry-up-or-you-die enemy shows up and kills you, and that's a way worse way to go than just dying outright. The game likes to play with its own very strange-yet-consistent hitboxes and jump arcs so you can definitely take advantage of cheesing levels by shooting through walls and floors you probably aren't supposed to. There are 101 stages which makes the game kind of an endurance test, and the game DOES pull some bullshit by letting you continue on any level except the last 3 so if you want to actually clear this either get ready to memorize the proper way to clear each level or just use save states like the rest of our sane modern society. The level design is pretty hit-or-miss but dangit i liked the vibes so I can't say it was all bad. bring ptolemy back taito you COWARDS