Trivia / Puzzle Bobble

• Follow the Leader:
  • Puzzle de Pon, developed by the Visco Corporation. The game's mechanics are almost exactly the same as Puzzle Bobble. The goal for each level was not to clear the board of bubbles, but to release a large "drop token" in the same way you drop hanging bubbles. Still, the gameplay was close enough to Puzzle Bobble's that Visco needed to license the game from Taito.
  • Puzzle Bobble has many clones out there. It's gotten to the point where the Google Play Store lists "bubble shooter" as a genre.