Once these eight are disposed of, it's on to the next level. Only one large balloon appears on the first three stages (played around Mount Fuji) and it will not take long to split this down to two medium balloons, then four smaller balloons, and then finally eight of the smallest balloons. The balloons are limited in number to begin with to enable the player to get to grips with the task ahead. The arcade machine then paved the way towards a host of conversions for the 8bit and 16bit computers of the day such as a multi-load mono-colour ZX Spectrum version, a cartridge-only flat-ball Commodore 64 version, a dinosaur themed MS-DOS version, and near arcade quality conversions for the Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, and the Commodore Amiga.Įach screen basically comprises of five key elements the balls/balloons themselves, the platforms, the item drops, the bonuses and the animals. In the U.S, the game was renamed as Buster Bros while in the UK, the title was changed (yet again) to Pang. Released through arcade giants Capcom and Taito, Pomping World received a very warm welcome in Japan, and the arcade rom was then exported around the world.
Six years thereafter, the Tokyo based software developer Mitchell Corporation began to update the concept for their next generation arcade machines under the name of Pomping World. The initial concept for the game was developed way back in 1983 by the Japanese producers Hudson Soft for the Atari MSX system, under the name Cannon Ball - which was later ported to the ZX Spectrum machine and later renamed 'Bubble Buster'. The history of Pang is long and complex, so for the sake of this review I'll be keeping it short.
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