if anyone has any information about the 1999 release of Puzzle Bobble - under that branding, not the Bust-A-Move branding - in the USA, i'd be really interested. it seems it was available both alone, and as a compilation set with Puzzle Bobble 2 on a second disk.
i've been doing some research on it but it seems like it's flown mostly under the radar, with all the information i can find suggesting that there was never a "Puzzle Bobble" release in the US at all much less mentioning this 1999 release that definitely happened, and i can't find any complete dumps of the game online, even though the physical discs seem very easy to find.
i'm really interested in this especially because i have childhood memories of this specific release of the game. my best guess as to where we got it is maybe a bargain bin in a computer store in (Norman?) Oklahoma in late 2000 (i was age 5), where my family and I were attending a LAN party. we picked up "Frogger 2" at this time, and i specifically remember that, but i'm not confident this is where we got Puzzle Bobble. i'm also not entirely convinced this wasn't some black market pirate release.
