Chackn

Say, you look mighty familiar… Nope, you’re not seeing things. These familiar little characters, whom you no doubt recognize from the 1986 hit Bubble Bobble, first made their gaming debut two years earlier. They were the enemy characters in Taito’s formative platformer Chack’n Pop, which is, incidentally, this week’s entry to Hamster’s Arcade Archives range. Released in arcades in 1984, before finding its way to a host of preliminary console platforms, Chack’n Pop is a painfully cute cartoon adventure starring a globular…