I was just noticing that this game has the happiest death theme of all time. It plays the death march when you die, but they use a major scale and extend it out at the end into this hyper active happy song. It's pretty funny.
Oh crikey mateys, hasn't anyone got into this game? Shame! They combined the gameplay of Bubble Bobble, added lots of powerups and other little extras and perks, made the graphics 10 times better, and added incredible digitized music. This is really, really, really good. And if anyone has an original of this out there I'll gladly give you $75 for it if it is boxed and complete.