| Super Methane Bros. | |
| Author: | Apache Software |
| Developer: | Mark Page |
| Released: | (Amiga) |
| Latest Release Version: | 2.0.0[1] |
| Genre: | One or two player Platform game |
| Platform: | Amiga, Amiga CD32, Windows, Linux, RISC OS |
| Website: | http://methane.sourceforge.net/ |
| License: | GPLv2 |
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]
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.
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]