Arcade Archives: Libble Rabble

Libble Rabble is a 1983 puzzle video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. The player is tasked with using two colored arrows, Libble and Rabble, to wrap them around pegs and surround small creatures known as Mushlins to "harvest" them under a time limit. The player can also uncover treasure chests that will have the player searching the stage for items in order to access a special bonus stage. It ran on the Namco System 16 Universal (also called Libble Rabble) hardware, one of the only games to do so. Described by Namco as a "bashishi game", it was designed by Pac-Man creator Tōru Iwatani and composed by Nobuyuki Ohnogi.