Morning Discussion

Yesterday, someone--you know who you are--attempted to get the music from Super Mario Bros. 2 stuck in the heads of his or her Twitter followers. "Ever have one of those days where the Mario 2 music gets stuck in your head," they wrote. It was evil, more so when they linked a video a bit later, even more so when they asked "how about now."

But then something weird happened. Later on, when I was trying to recall the Super Mario Bros. 2 theme, I found myself humming the Bubble Bobble theme instead. Which really makes me wonder--is the Bubble Bobble music more virulent than Mario 2?

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    April 16, 2009 7:19 AM

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      April 16, 2009 7:22 AM

      Fully agreed.

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      April 16, 2009 7:26 AM

      My cousin and I played the hell out of that game.
      Most brilliant coop game at the time really.

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        April 16, 2009 7:34 AM

        funny, I watched the video, but I remember one of the tactics being to put a load of enemies into bubbles then burst them all at once for a huge bonus. Didn't the NES version have that?

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          April 16, 2009 7:37 AM

          Yes, it did. But as I remember it has to be 3+ enemies to start a combo

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            April 16, 2009 7:40 AM

            ah ok ... too long ago! (I could clock the arcade version, at one point, sigh)

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      April 16, 2009 7:28 AM

      I still play Bubble Bobble with the same friend I played it with when I was 5. I absolutely love that game.

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      April 16, 2009 7:39 AM

      Also, another thing in that video I noticed.. the third song it plays never shows up in any version of Bubble Bobble but the arcade version. It's the music to secret rooms that become available if you get to levels 20, 40, and 50 without dying.

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      April 16, 2009 7:53 AM

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