THE RIGHT BOBBLE: TAITO REVEAL FIRST IPHONE PUZZLE BOBBLE VIDEO

So I was apparently, and embarrassingly, wrong on two counts: first in originally presuming that Taito’s next iPhone game teaser was meant to be Bubble, not Puzzle, Bobble, and second, in assuming that when Puzzle Bobble did inevitably arrive, that it’d come in tilt-to-aim form.

I suppose the latter hasn’t necessarily been entirely disproven yet, but above, Taito shows off the first video of the game and its first two control schemes, a Must Eat Birds-ish slingshot mode, and a somewhat more precise tap-to-aim, tap-to-fire mode.

Still no word on how far away the app is from submission, but it’s thus far looking like a quietly essential take on a long-running classic.