Super Methane Bros.
Original author(s)Apache Software
Developer(s)Mark Page
Initial release1993 (1993) (Amiga)
Stable release
2.0.0[1] / 2021 (2021)
PlatformAmiga, Amiga CD32, Windows, Linux, RISC OS
TypeOne or two player Platform game
LicenseGPLv2
Websitehttp://methane.sourceforge.net/
Amiga screenshot of Level 9.

Super Methane Brothers is a video game similar to Taito's Bubble Bobble arcade game, released for Amiga in 1993 by Apache Software.[2] Contemporary reviewers compared it to Namco's Tumblepop.[3]

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.[4]

With permission from Apache Software Ltd a modern port under GPLv2 with the original assets was released in 2001 by Mark Page.[5][6] 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.[7]

In 2009 an iOS version was released by Mobila Interactive, LLC.[8][9]

Between 2005 and May 2017 Super Methane Bros. was downloaded from SourceForge alone over 48,000 times.[10]

References

  1. ↑ history.txt
  2. ↑ Super Methane Bros – Kaasua, komissaariot Huppa ja Puppa by J. Turunen on Pelit (in Finnish May 1, 1994)
  3. ↑ "Amiga Reviews: Super Methane Brothers". www.amigareviews.leveluphost.com. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
  4. ↑ Super Methane Bros in Amiga Power issue 39 (July 1994)
  5. ↑ 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."
  6. ↑ Version History. on methane.sourceforge.net
  7. ↑ Methane on sourceforge.net
  8. ↑ super-methane-brothers on metacritic.com
  9. ↑ Rise of the Triad by GamesIndustry International on gamesindustry.biz (15 Feb 2010)
  10. ↑ Super Methane Bros. - stats on SourceForge.net (accessed 2017-05-22)
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