Bubble Count

Bubble Count
Appears in	WarioWare: Get It Together!
Type	Fantasy
Command(s)	How many? (Level 1) Count the red/blue! (Level 2) Count the hearts/stars! (Level 3)
Info	"Count the floatin' soap bubbles! Popped bubbles change the number, so watch out for that."
Points to clear	25

Bubble Count is one of the microgames in Dribble & Spitz's Fantasy level in WarioWare: Get It Together!

Gameplay

As the title suggests, the object of this microgame is to count the number of bubbles of a specific type on the screen, with the answer possibly being any number from one to five. A fairy who thinks of the proper type will sit on an hourglass at the right. The hourglass upon which they are sitting will slowly empty at the top, and fill at the bottom, showing how much time players have left. The bubbles will pop if they are hit either by touching them or by indirect attacks, which changes the number of them, and popping all of the bubbles angers the fairy and they will stomp on the hourglass they were sitting on, resulting in failure. If the player selects the correct answer, the fairy will become happy and float upwards on the bubbles. If the player selects the incorrect answer, the fairy will become angry and point to the correct answer as the sky turns gray. In both cases where the player loses and the fairy becomes angry, the fairy's eyes become blank triangles.

• Level 1: The bubbles all have the same shape and the same color. The fairy is red if the bubbles are red and blue if the bubbles are blue.
• Level 2: The bubbles all have the same shape but different colors. The player must count all the bubbles that are red or blue. The fairy is red if the bubbles that must be counted are red and blue if the bubbles that must be counted are blue.
• Level 3: The bubbles all have different shapes and different colors. The player must count all the bubbles that are heart-shaped or star-shaped. The fairy is white.

If two players are utilized for this microgame, the player that selects the correct answer receives an effort point or, in the case of Rising Star, a star. The player that pops the last necessary bubble or selects the wrong answer before time is up loses an effort point or star.

Mission

• Save the Bubbles: Using all crew members, the player must leave at least 100 bubbles unpopped before they Game Over.

Suitability

Good Fit
Bad Fit

• Pyoro is unsuitable as his diagonal aim likely causes bubbles to pop, and it may require changing the count several times until he does not pop any bubbles.
• Penny is also unsuitable as her movement can inadvertently pop bubbles via sprayed water.
• Mona, Dr. Crygor, Jimmy T, and Lulu's respective movements can likely cause bubbles to pop, requiring them to keeping moving upwards at the top of the screen in the answer area to ensure that their movements don't change the answer or pop the bubbles.
• Since 9-Volt has constant horizontal movement, he has little time to choose the correct answer.
• Kat & Ana's constant jumping can inadvertently pop bubbles, requiring several count changing until they don't pop any bubbles.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	シャボンだまカウント[?] Shabondama Kaunto	Soap Bubble Count
Chinese (simplified)	数肥皂泡[?] Shù féizào pào	Counting Soap Bubbles
Chinese (traditional)	數肥皂泡[?] Shù féizào pào	Counting Soap Bubbles
French	Comptage de bulles[?]	Bubble counting
German	Blasenzählerei[?]	Bubble Counting
Italian	Conteggio di bolle[?]	Counting bubbles
Korean	비눗방울 세기[?] Binutbang-ul Segi	Bubble Count
Spanish	Burbujómetro[?]	Bubble meter

Trivia

• Two red fairies from this microgame (one thinking and the other angry) can be seen in one of the pop-up ads in Pop-Up Patrol.