Buster Bros.

Pang (Buster Bros.)
Developer(s)Mitchell Corporation
Publisher(s)
Director(s)Yoshiki Okamoto
Designer(s)Toshihiko Uda
Programmer(s)Masatsugu Shinohara
Masamitsu Kobayashi
Artist(s)Masako Honma
Composer(s)Tamayo Kawamoto
Platform(s)Arcade, TurboGrafx-CD, SNES, PlayStation, Game Boy, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad GX4000, Amiga, Atari ST, iOS
Release
  • JP: November 29, 1989[1]
  • WW: December 1989
Genre(s)Action
Mode(s)Multiplayer

Pang, originally released in Japan as Pomping World[a] and known in North America as Buster Bros., is a 1989 action game released by Mitchell Corporation for arcades in 1989. It was the tenth game released for Capcom's CP System arcade hardware.[2]

The basic gameplay is identical to a 1983 Japanese MSX computer game called Cannon Ball (also released in 1983 on the ZX Spectrum as Bubble Buster). Cannon Ball was made by Japanese publishers Hudson Soft, and it was licensed by Mitchell Corporation six years later to make Pang.[3][4]

In the game, players must finish a round-the-world quest to destroy bouncing balloons that are terrorising several of Earth's landmarks and cities. The fight to save the Earth begins on Mount Fuji, Japan, where the players must pass all three stages before moving on to the next location.

Conversions, all titled Pang, were released across Europe by Ocean Software in 1990 for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, and Atari ST.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference RePlay was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Maciejewski, A (26 March 2016). "Bustin It Up With The Buster Bros". Videochums.com. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  3. ^ Szczepaniak, John (2014). The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers: Volume 1. SMG Szczepaniak. p. 145. ISBN 978-1-5188-1874-5.
  4. ^ Wiltshire, Alex (2019). Japansoft: An Oral History. Read-Only Memory. p. 264. ISBN 978-0-9575768-8-9.


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