1993 · Platformer

Super Methane Bros

Super Methane Brothers is a 1993 platform arcade game released for Amiga by Apache Software Ltd.. The gameplay is similar to Taito's Bubble Bobble.

Released: 1993
Platforms: Amiga Amiga CD32 Linux Windows
Genres: Platformer
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Perspective: Side view
Themes: Action
Country: United Kingdom

About

Super Methane Bros. is an action video game released by Apache Software for the Amiga in 1993. It is similar in gameplay to Taito's 1986 arcade game, Bubble Bobble. Contemporary reviewers compared it to Data East's 1991 title, Tumblepop.

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Gameplay

The protagonists of the game, Puff and Blow, each have a Methane Gas Gun which fires a cloud of immobilising gas. If this comes into contact with a bad guy, he will be absorbed into the gas and then float around the screen for a limited time. Bad guys are harmless in this state. Puff and Blow must suck the floating gas clouds into their guns and blast them out against a vertical surface. Bad guys then turn into bonuses which can be collected.

Reception

Super Methane Bros was received mixed with 72% in Amiga Power issue 39 from July 1994.

With permission from Apache Software Ltd a modern port under GPLv2 with the original assets was released in 2001 by Mark Page. This game has ports for Microsoft Windows, Linux and RISC OS. The source code and project is hosted on SourceForge, latest update was in 2021.