You select from a handful of primary and secondary colors, then throw in clear bubbles, stars, block bubbles, and so on. The puzzle-building components aren't exactly complex, but they can be quite addictive. The last option in the N64 version, like in the PlayStation game, is the edit mode. You can sample them all and simply skip the ones you don't like. The good thing is, you don't have to complete one collection puzzle to move on to the next. The ones that take longer seem nearly impossible, poorly constructed, and are likely the craftwork of some mean, disturbed little child with a vengeance. These puzzles usually take just seconds each to get through, and a good handful of them require little more than one to four shots (or turns) to complete.

A bunch of people of no discernable age made puzzles for Taito, and more than one thousand of these ended up in the final game. The collection mode is basically what you saw (or might have seen) in Natsume's Bust-A-Move 3. The win contest mode is another player vs.

Your success will be evaluated at the end. The challenge mode is a single-player match where you solve about 25 puzzles. Arcade mode is the arcade conversion of Bust-A-Move 3, with a puzzle option, in which a single player works through the levels without an opponent, neither human nor CPU. However, the Taito-created Nintendo 64 version of essentially the same game delivers what most puzzles game fans want most - more in terms of multiplayer mode, along with a few additional features added since Acclaims Bust-A-Move 2 Arcade Edition that came out on the N64 this time last year - namely, a collection, a four-player mode, and an edit mode. Acclaim's Bust-A-Move 99 brought little to the series on the PlayStation, aside from a hefty collection of homemade puzzles and a sparsely entertaining edit mode.

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