Puzzle Bobble 2

Puzzle Bobble 2
Japanese arcade flyer
DeveloperTaito
Publishers
Taito
  • Arcade
    Taito
    EX
    SNK
    PlayStation, Saturn, Game Boy MS-DOS, Nintendo 64
    Acclaim Entertainment
    Windows Mac OS
    CyberFront
DesignerSeiichi Nakakuki
ProgrammersHiroshi Maruyama
Junichiro Noguchi
ArtistKazuhiro Kinoshita
ComposersKazuko Umino
Norihiro Furukawa
Shuichiro Nakazawa
SeriesPuzzle Bobble
PlatformsArcade, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, MS-DOS, Windows, Game Boy, Nintendo 64, Mac OS
Release
September 1995
  • Arcade
    • JP: September 1995
    • NA: November 1995
    EX
    • NA: September 1999
    PlayStation
    • JP: 29 March 1996
    • NA: 4 June 1996
    • PAL: 28 August 1996
    Saturn
    • JP: 26 July 1996
    • PAL: 28 August 1996
    • NA: 24 September 1996
    MS-DOS
    Windows
    Game Boy
    • NA: February 1998
    • JP: 10 April 1998
    • EU: 1998
    Nintendo 64
    • NA: 20 May 1998
    • EU: 1998
    Mac OS
    • JP: 28 January 2000
GenrePuzzle
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer
Arcade systemTaito F3 System, Neo Geo MVS

Puzzle Bobble 2 is a tile-matching video game by Taito. The first sequel to Puzzle Bobble, it is also known in Europe and North America as Bust-A-Move Again for arcades and Bust-A-Move 2: Arcade Edition for home consoles. Released into the arcades in 1995, home conversions followed for the PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, and Windows platforms. The game was included in Taito Legends 2, but the US arcade version was included in the US PS2 version instead. Further ports for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One were released by City Connection alongside Puzzle Bobble 3 in February 2023.

The game builds on the original by adding a tournament-style variation on the two-player game for play against the computer and by adding a branching map to the one-player game, allowing the player to periodically select one of two groups of five levels to play next, leading to different game endings. Some of the contestants in the new tournament mode are based on characters from Bubble Bobble, including variations on a Monsta and a Mighta. Some versions of the game, including the PlayStation, feature time trial competitions in which a single player attempts to finish simple rounds quickly enough to beat previous time records or two players simultaneously attempt to beat the records and each other.

Completion of the single-player game gives the player a code that can be entered to unlock "Another World" for the single-player game, which features subtle changes to the existing levels to increase their difficulty and changes to all backdrops to resemble levels from Bubble Bobble. The various enemies from Bubble Bobble also make an appearance in the background of the credits sequence.