Bubble Bobble

The game Bubble Bobble does sound really familiar and I do think that I might have played it many many years ago,but it does sound like a really awesome game, especially since you play as a bubble dragon,and you kill your enemies by shooting bubbles at them to trap them,and then popping the bubbles,and yeah there are very few games nowadays that have co-op play but the ones that are do are really awesome,and no I have not played any old school arcade games recently.

I loved Bubble Bobble to bits. I would point out that there's Arcade emulation software out there (MAME, or Multi-Arcade Machine Emulator springs to mind), and a little searching on Google will provide links to it and the ROM for Bubble Bobble and thousands of other machines. No links, as they're something of a grey area legally...;)

I will point out http://www.remakes.org/ though, which is a listing of free games which people have created as remakes of all that good stuff we used to make.

Multiplayer Co-op is making a comeback to be honest, but only online; you only have to look at things like World of Warcraft on the PC, or Team Fortress and the like on the Xbox 360.

Other arcade games I liked around the time of Bubble Bobble? Pacland, New Zealand Story, and Rainbow Islands (the sequel to Bubble Bobble)

Own and have on an NES. It seems like a good game. Can't remember what level I'm on. Thank god for passwords. To answer your bonus question, yes I have played some good old school games lately. Most recently, I was playing Super C (sequel to Contra) on a Wii. I'm not that good at it. I'm still trying to beat the third level. Oh, and I was also playing R-Type, Gradius and Gradius III on a Wii.