The gameplay of Snow Bros is very similar to Bubble Bobble, released in 1986. The game supports up to two players,
with each player taking the part of one of two snowmen Nick and Tom.
Each player can throw snow at the enemies. The player must throw snow
at each enemy until it is completely covered, when it turns into a
snowball. An enemy partially covered in snow cannot move until it
shakes it off.
Once an enemy has been turned into a snowball the player can roll it.
The snowball will re-bound off walls, until eventually shattering
against a wall. Any enemies the snowball rolls into are eliminated and
other stationary snowballs start rolling when the rolling snowball
touches them. If the player manages to take out all of the enemies with
kicking one snowball (this one snowball may be used to make others
bounce around as well and increase the chances to pull this trick off),
money in the form of large green bills will fall from the sky. These
disappear in a very short amount of time but are worth 10,000 points
each, the most the player can get as a bonus.
Every tenth level there is a boss. Each boss can sustain being hit a number of times. In Sega Genesis port, after the 50th level, you play as one of the snow castle princesses.
When a player bowls an enemy over, it may drop a potion bottle. The
color of the potion lets the player know what special power-up he or she
will acquire:
- Red increases walking speed.
- Blue increases amount of snow thrown, thus making it easier to cover an enemy in snow.
- Yellow increases the distance that snow can be thrown.
- Green causes your character to inflate like a balloon while having the ability to fly around screen and knock out enemies for a limited period of time.
The effects of the red, blue, and yellow potion wear off after the player loses a life.
If the player takes too much time to complete a level an evil pumpkin
head will come and try to kill the player character. It is invincible
but can be stunned and sent to appear somewhere else in the level with
snowballs or snow shots. After a short time the evil pumpkin will spawn
ghosts that can travel freely through the level and seek the player
character. These ghosts can't be killed or stunned, so the player's only
hope is to avoid them while eliminating the rest of the enemies to
move on to the next screen as soon as possible.
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