Nick and Tom’s method of attack is a compelling one which instantly hooks. This was more than likely to make it appeal to a western audience.
The box art for Capcom’s NES and Game Boy conversions omitted the brother’s offbeat headwear, and it’s only here that they resemble your common garden variety snowman. Sporting fez hats and dungarees, Nick and Tom didn’t really resemble traditional snowmen.
is heavily muted while the visual style is ripe with influences from Japanese folklore. It’s however doubtful anybody outright mistook it for a Taito game like Rodland before it, as the colour palate in Snow Bros. It’s clear right from the outset that Toaplan had studied Taito’s handiwork very closely as it features many similar elements and ideas. Toaplan’s Snow Bros.: Nick and Tom from 1990 hit all the right notes too, and like Rodland soon found its way to home systems. Jaleco’s Rodland did come close though, to the point where it’s often mistaken as a Taito effort. Even the obscure ones.Ĭertainly in the ‘80s, nobody could beat Taito at their own game. These two games in particular were incredibly popular, eventually converted to just about every 8-bit and 16-bit system. And although more of a vertical platformer, trapping and crushing enemies under rainbows in Rainbow Islands was curiously compelling. Capturing enemies in bubbles that floated to the top of the screen, ready and waiting to be popped, was a hoot in Bubble Bobble. In each Taito success story the main character’s method of attack also played a key element. The Japanese arcade giant had the formula to creating single-screen platformers perfected from out outset – an irresistible combination of colourful visuals, jaunty music, tight controls and a smooth learning curve. In 1983 arcade legend Taito gave the world Chack ‘n Pop, a simple single-screen platformer that eventually lead to the creation of Bubble Bobble and its wealth of spin-offs and sequels.
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