Which is the better game, Snood or Bust’a’move?
Let me get that: Bust’a’move (AKA Puzzle Bobble) is a wonderfully simple puzzle game with tons of Japanese cool: 
Snood is a cheap, poorly executed ripoff with graphics seemingly done in Windows Paint.
Don’t know why, but a lot of people (especially in North America?) play Snood rather than Bust’a’move, Henry Jenkins here.
Hello? Stop playing Snood and get the real thing instead!
Still, if anyone could explain why a large white worm comes out of Pukadon’s belly when you select him (Super Bust’a’move on PS2) … ehr, what is this supposed to signify?
It must be something about how cute all the Bust a Move characters are, nein? You are trapped by the cuteness! I know why the Pukadon thing happens, the white worm is Pukadon?s soul, it is an allegory such as a white dove but a bit more earth-like, indicating his matter of fact nature. It is HOT in this horrible office!
I think more people play Snood because it is a free download. Do you have a link for downloading Bust-A-Move?
Found some info on Pukadon – it’s just a parasite inside him, that’s all:
“Pukadon has a parasite in him. It makes him have all sorts of violent bodily reactions, farting, puking, that’s what he’s all about, and he enjoys it! In the opening animation, he sits there with a big smile on his face, and then proceeds to vomit all over himself.”
Could his soul be matter-of-factly vomit-like?
Hey, I come here for academic deconstruction of videogames and I get the sort of thing I can go to Penny Arcade for? Good thing you’ve got the comments section. Just kidding, you can of course write what you want. That’s what blogs are for. FWIW, I’m North American and I’m all about Busta Move and never heard of Snood.
Sorry about not deconstructing anything.
I am actually not entirely sure how you’d deconstruct Bust’a’move. A rather pedestrian deconstruction of all games would be to point to the binary oppositions in the distinction between winning and losing; how winning is always valued higher in this opposition; but that winning gets it meaning from its difference from losing and that this hierarchy of values is therefore (obviously) always already broken?
Or perhaps claiming that Pukadon on a textual level is presented as being “one character” that you can select (and therefore a fixed “identity”) but that he suffers from an internal contradiction in that a) he has a parasite and is therefore not one, but two (thus challenging the stability of his “identity”)… I think you can even make him play against himself and b) that you can continue to select him, this pointing to the fact that he is not “real” but just part of a self-referential chain of flickering signifiers.
Hmm. To go even further: Pukadon is identifiable by the fact that he has a parasite that comes out of his stomach when you select him. But the parasite is not Pukadon. Pukadon’s “identity” is the parasite, and Pukadon’s identity is therefore what is not identical to him. Or, in other words: Pukadon is what he is not.
Is this more like it?
Bravo Jesper! You have risen to the skies of uncritical theory!
Sweet. Start encapsulating subwords in brackets like Derrida and you’re there. Absent-present Pukadon self.
I was in the shop, and Silent Hill 3 was next to this game. I don’t even like Survival Horror games, but I got Silent Hill 3. I really really hate myself right now.
Does anyone have some snood codes or a place to get them?
How about a little more fan-boyishness??
BuST-A-Move RoCks Doodz!
:-)
I guess the fact that Snood is free is the main incentive…yet Bust-A-Move is SUCH an old game! (Puzzle Bobble anyone?)
ok busta move is the best never heared of the other 1. n e 1 knowwhere i can dowload busta move n the internet
Why would mog wear a tie?
that’s for boys!
hey guys wats up ;) i am like so addicted to snood its so SUPER!! I play it all day and I love it like a brother. Some times i get carried away and jack off though(when i see the red one of course) well bye guys i hope you loved me post!
i love snood!!!! i am a part time male stripper and when i get home all i do is play snood and jack off 2 pictures of me f@!#$%# the blue one. i think people that dont like snood are silly. and they should jack off more!!!!!!
FUCK SNOOD!!!
lollypop i do not like what you said it makes me angry! you should respect snood and snood will whoop ur fucking ass!
i love snood the only thing i like more is jacking off 2 pics of jackson. he is soooooo sexy i would love to fuck him 1 day
I am a little faggot pansy and pee in my pants. Unfortuanlutly i have no life and just jack off to snood all day.
Well, it certainly is a new and refreshing angle on game aesthetics.
shut the fuck up jesper
Ah, the young kids these days. Such vigour, such honesty.
snoooood
how do i download puzzlebobble?
snood rules this game sucks
i love super bust a move, i didn’t get the newer one yet, but i have been aa fan for many years!