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| Original author(s) | Apache Software |
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| Developer(s) | Mark Page |
| Initial release | 1993; 32 years ago (1993) (Amiga) |
| Stable release | 2.0.0 / 2021; 4 years ago (2021) |
| Platform | Amiga, Amiga CD32, Windows, Linux, RISC OS |
| Type | One or two player Platform game |
| License | GPLv2 |
| Website | http://methane.sourceforge.net/ |
Super Methane Brothers is a video game similar to Taito's Bubble Bobble arcade game, released for Amiga in 1993 by Apache Software. Contemporary reviewers compared it to Namco's Tumblepop.
Gameplay
The protagonists of the game, Puff and Blow, each have a Methane Gas Gun which fires a cloud of immobilising gas. If this comes into contact with a bad guy, he will be absorbed into the gas and then float around the screen for a limited time. Bad guys are harmless in this state. Puff and Blow must suck the floating gas clouds into their guns and blast them out against a vertical surface. Bad guys then turn into bonuses which can be collected.
Reception and legacy
Super Methane Bros was received mixed with 72% in Amiga Power issue 39 from July 1994.
With permission from Apache Software Ltd a modern port under GPLv2 with the original assets was released in 2001 by Mark Page. This game has ports for Microsoft Windows, Linux and RISC OS. The source code and project is hosted on SourceForge, latest update was in 2021.
In 2009 an iOS version was released by Mobila Interactive, LLC.
Between 2005 and May 2017 Super Methane Bros. was downloaded from SourceForge alone over 48,000 times.
External links
- Super Methane Bros. ports at sourceforge.net
- Super Methane Bros. at Lemon Amiga
References
- history.txt
- Super Methane Bros – Kaasua, komissaariot Huppa ja Puppa by J. Turunen on Pelit (in Finnish May 1, 1994)
- "Amiga Reviews: Super Methane Brothers". www.amigareviews.leveluphost.com. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
- Super Methane Bros in Amiga Power issue 39 (July 1994)
- info on methane.sourceforge.net "IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a conversion of the Commodore Amiga game. I had been given permission by the company (Apache Software Ltd) to release this game as GPL. However - THE ORIGINAL AMIGA VERSION OF SUPER METHANE BROTHERS IS STILL A COMMERCIAL GAME ITS LICENCE HAS NOT CHANGED."
- Version History. on methane.sourceforge.net
- Methane on sourceforge.net
- super-methane-brothers on metacritic.com
- Rise of the Triad by GamesIndustry International on gamesindustry.biz (15 Feb 2010)
- Super Methane Bros. - stats on SourceForge.net (accessed 2017-05-22)