9 /10 1 Votes
4.1/5 Classic Retro Games Mode(s) One or two player Publisher Apache Software Limited | 5/5 SourceForge Developer(s) Apache Software Ltd. Initial release date 1993 Genre Platform game | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms Amiga, Microsoft Windows, AmigaOS, Linux, iOS, GP2X, RISC OS, Acorn Archimedes Similar Marvin's Marvellous Adventure, The Speris Legacy, Disposable Hero, Super Stardust, ATR: All Terrain Racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Super Methane Brothers is a 1993 platform arcade game released for Amiga by Apache Software Ltd.. The game is a clone of Taito's Bubble Bobble as the gameplay is very similar.
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Gameplay
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 and legacy
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. This game has ports for Microsoft Windows, Linux and RISC OS. The source code and project is hosted on Sourceforge, latest update was in 2011.
In 2009 a iOS version was released by Mobila Interactive, LLC.
Between 2005 and July 2016 Super Methane Bros. was downloaded from Sourceforge alone over 47,000 times.
