BustAMove

Manufacturer: SNK
Year: 1993
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Puzzle
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: Neo Geo MVS
Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Competitive
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 1 [Shoot]

Sound: Amplified Stereo (two channel)

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BustAMove Description

A puzzle game whose object is to link three or more spheres of the same color together to eliminate them from the screen. While playing against an opponent, if more than three spheres are removed at once, they will be added to the collection on the other player's screen.

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Cabinet Information

The game is often housed in a standard NeoGeo cabinet.

Game Play

Using a special 'bubble launcher' you fire colored bubbles in an attempt to make matches and clear the playing field of bubbles. After clearing all the bubbles, you advance to the next level. The game ends when the bubbles get so piled up that they reach the bottom of the screen.

Miscellaneous

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CAPS/VAPS Arcade Census

There are 6,492 members of the Classic Arcade Preservation Society / Video Arcade Preservation Society, 3,731 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 61,187 machines (3,630 unique titles).

Common - There are 49 known instances of this machine owned by BustAMove collectors. Of these, 7 of them are original dedicated machines, 2 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 40 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

This game ranks a 31 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Wanted - There are 3 VAPS members currently looking for BustAMove.

This game ranks a 8 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

For Sale - There is one VAPS member with a BustAMove machine for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them even though arcade operators might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses, while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up.
Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector.
In particular, since VAPS started out focusing on videogames, statistics for other types of machines should not (yet) be an indication of scarcity.
For a clue to value, look at absolute numbers of owners and potential owners above, compare a ratio of how many people want this game vs. how many people have this game (6%) and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range.

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