Bust-A-Move Bash!

Bust-A-Move Bash! incorporates the same gameplay principles and premise of prior games in the Bust-A-Move series, as a colorful bubble shooter. Bash features several different modes: puzzle, shooting, endless and a multiplayer mode.

In puzzle mode, the player completes levels by eliminating all on-screen bubbles, which is done by shooting a bubble at a cluster of bubbles of the same color. There are also special kinds of bubbles with different game-altering properties, such as star, flame and rainbow bubbles. There is also a bonus round after every 10 levels beaten, which will unlock one kind of the aforementioned special bubbles when completed successfully.

Ken Gold, the vice president of Majesco marketing, stated that Majesco wanted Bash! to "maximize the intuitive nature of the Wii controller to create a revolutionary offering of the highly popular Bust-A-Move franchise", eventually leading to the idea of leveraging the Wii Remote's expansion capabilities to allow up to eight players to compete on a single screen by having two players share one Wii controller by each holding one of its two individual parts - the remote itself or its external controller.

Bust-A-Move Bash! received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. IGN's Mark Birnbaum described it as "a step backwards for the series." Birnbaum criticized the game's control scheme as "lack[ing] ergonomic foresight" when playing with the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, its graphics as "lackluster" and too similar to the Dreamcast version, its multiplayer as "devoid of fun due to its emphasis on chaos rather than skill", and shooting mode, which criticisms he directed at the entire game, as "poorly implemented, tacked-on, and lacking inspiration." Despite this, Birnbaum praised its number of puzzles and its faithfulness to the original game.