Special, and while I don’t think it’s the perfect game, its very existence gives me warm and fuzzy feelings. in 1994, and after decades, I never thought we’d see that series come back. Sadly, the developer of Snow Bros., Toaplan, went out of business soon after releasing the sequel to Snow Bros.
Related reading: Retro Reflections: Oh how I love Snow Bros. As they say, you always remember your first… Very adult me almost cried when I found a copy at Super Potato in Japan and was able to play it again on my original hardware, rather than relying on an emulator. 12-year-old (or thereabouts) me genuinely cried the day I lost that cartridge. Jr, and I loved that game with a fiery passion. Way back on the Game Boy, there was a shrunk-down version of the arcade game called, Snow Bros. (the “clone”) was the first single-screen platformer I personally played.
Bubble Bobble did actually come first chronologically, but Snow Bros.
Before there was Bubble Bobble, there was Snow Bros., and the original remains the best.
