I was a big bub/bob fan back in the day so I am always glad to see another knock off. This one is a nice addition to the range of options, but it has some troubles. Some of them are simply lack of absolute faithfulness to the original, and are therefore excusable (i.e different theme music, crystals from water streams flying around the screen instead of dropping straight down from above.)

There are some other glitches that make it difficult to play.
1. Foremost, you have to hold down the jump button to get a full jump. Due to the slow action (more below) that means a one-second depress to jump up one level. This must be adjusted. The original had two types of jump - a brief tap would make bub hop, a full press made him fully jump. I like that this function is being restored, but needs tweaking.
2. It is too difficult to jump off of your own bubbles along the wall.
3. It is possible (at least on level 6) to jump over the side wall and fall down along the left side of the screen - off-screen! I couldn't see bub, but I was still hearing him and my bubble attempts brought little "10"'s floating onto the screen. The white ghost couldn't get me though, so I had to quit the game - there was no way for me to die or clear the level!
4. No multi-bubble multiplier - ok, I guess this is not a playability issue, but it is a big one. When there are 4 meanies, I should get 4 thousand points (500*2*2*2) for popping them en masse, not 40 (10*4)
5. This is excutiangly slow on my pismo powerbook 499. I haven't tried it on the dual 1.8 yet.


So what do I like:
1. You can do that trick where you position yourself just to the side of a falling meanie then blow and burst a bubble around him without moving. This is very important, and Bub and Bob (mcsebi.com) gets it wrong.
2. Saving game state via repeatable password instead of just "saving" the game. I haven't played far enough (due to usability issues) to actually use this feature, but if it works as it should, I like it!
3. 14.95 is a fair price once this gets worked out.
3. Scores floating up and to the right instead of just sitting still. This attention to detail leaves me hopeful that the other bugs will be worked out.