I can't offer timestamps for the good stuff rn but a bunch of players streamed Azumanga Daioh Puzzle Bobble from a-cho over the weekend ("it might look cute, but it stands atop the corpses of dead STG players who played it to 'relax' ")
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There's an Azumanga Daioh Puzzle Bobble !!!
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yup! developed by MOSS (Raiden III and beyond), released only in Japanese arcades via NAOMI hardware
the big unhinged gimmick is that the dividing wall between playfields has a big hole in it, allowing players to very directly mess with each other—Puzzle Wednesday's run it quite a few times:
if you wanna go one level deeper, Magical Drop player birdup bashed together Azumanga Daioh Magical Pop, a MD clone using the graphics from AzuBobble:
I found out that Azumanga puzzle game is not as uncommon a game as you would initially think.
