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Bloons Pop Three

Bejeweled, now with 100% bloons!

Unused Graphics#

Obscured Graphics#

Pop Corn Graphic#

Obscured

Full Sprite

The popcorn sprite has a graphic mostly used for the inside of the popcorn box. There's more to it, as the outer white part has generic text that says "Pop corn". This may be a placeholder graphic, since there is another graphic that lays over the obscured graphic.

More Games Button#

Obscured

Full Sprite

If the "Play Bloons!" text and blue overlay is removed, text displaying "More games" can be seen. Oddly, the text is transparent and part of the white box, rather than being a text file like all text in the final game. Not only that, the letter "g" disappears in the first frame and appears in the second for whatever reason. The file is still referred as moregames_90, meaning the "Play Bloons!" text was added quite late in development.

Offscreen Graphics#

Music Graphic#

Bloons_Pop_Three-MusicButton.png
A graphic offscreen to control whether music is on and off when the music button is pressed; if music is on, the graphic will play it.

Sound Graphic#

Bloons_Pop_Three-SoundButton.png
A graphic offscreen for controlling what sounds play. Contains every sound in the game; each box represents a sound.

Rainbow Bloon(?)#

There is an unnamed Bloon stored in the files of the game that resembles the rainbow Bloon from Bloons Tower Defense 3 . its purpose is not known, however there are a few clues as to what it may have done:

  1. It is unable to have powerups, but it also is not affected by them, meaning the Bloon may have been a harder Bloon for when you reach a certain score.
  2. It might just have been a placeholder/early version of for powerups, due to the previously mentioned properties.

Internal Name#

The game is internally referred to as MatchThree, as seen with its Main file.

References#


  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20080715104236/http://www.ninjakiwi.com/Games/Bloons-Games/Bloons-Pop-3.html↩︎