Kaboom! 1981 Activision
11Kaboom! is an Activision video game published in 1981 for Atari 2600 that was designed by Larry Kaplan. David Crane coded the overlaid sprites. It was well-received and successful commercially, selling over one million cartridges by 1983.
Kaboom! is an unauthorized adaptation of the 1978 Atari coin-op Avalanche. The gameplay of both games is fundamentally the same, but Kaboom! was re-themed to be about a mad bomber instead of falling rocks. As an ex-Atari programmer, Larry Kaplan, originally wanted to port Avalanche to the Atari 2600. In Avalanche all the boulders are lined up at the top which is difficult to accomplish on the 2600, hence the shift to the Mad Bomber.
The game is similar to Avalanche in concept, but instead of there being a pre-existing set of rocks across the top of the screen that randomly fall, a character known as the "Mad Bomber" moves back and forth randomly dropping bombs. As the game progresses, the Mad Bomber traverses the top of the screen much more erratically, dropping bombs at increasingly higher speeds, making each of the seven higher levels more difficult.
The player uses a paddle controller to move buckets back and forth near the bottom of the screen to catch the bombs before they reach the bottom. The player starts with multiple buckets arranged over each other, which makes it more likely to catch the bombs in one of them. If the player fails to catch a bomb, it explodes, along with any other bombs still on the screen in a chain reaction from bottom to top. This also causes one of the buckets to disappear, the game ending when the player loses the last one. Points are awarded for every bomb caught, and extra buckets (maximum of three) are awarded at every 1,000 points.
While the Mad Bomber is dropping bombs, he has an unhappy face. If the player misses and a bomb is dropped, he smiles while the bombs on the screen explode. The game manual mentions that something "special" will happen after 10,000 points. When the player reaches that score threshold, the Mad Bomber's face appears surprised/upset, even if the player drops a bomb.
When Kaboom! was originally sold, anyone who scored above 3,000 points could send Activision a picture of his or her television screen to receive membership in the Activision Bucket Brigade and a Bucket Brigade patch.
Kaboom! é um jogo eletrônico de ação idealizado por Larry Kaplan e desenvolvido pela Activision para Atari 2600 em 1981. Também foi lançado para Atari 5200 e Atari 8-bit. Este jogo foi bem recebido e bem sucedido comercialmente, vendendo mais de 1 milhão de cartuchos em 1983.
No jogo aparece o "Mad Bomber" (o bombardeiro louco), lançando na parte superior da tela bombas que devem ser interceptadas por umas das três bacias com água controladas pelo jogador. O nível de dificuldade vai aumentando de acordo com que se avança o jogo, fazendo com que as bombas sejam lançadas com maior rapidez e velocidade. Atualmente existe uma versão em Macromedia Flash disponível na Web, feita pela Groovz Productions em 2002.
Some well known Atari 2600 emulators today are:
Stella - An open source, multiplatform emulator (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Dreamcast, Nintendo DS, Wii, GP2X).
z26 -- Another open source, multiplatform customizable emulator (Windows, MS-DOS, Linux)
javatari -- Open-source, multiplatform Java based emulator with network multiplayer features and a real console panel user interface.
PC Atari Emulator -- Easy to use, very fast emulator (Windows, MS-DOS). Handles the Cosmic Ark starfield effect correctly.
MESS -- the multi system emulator that supports all old Atari console systems
The Pocket VCS -- PPC -- Easy to use, very fast and emulator (Windows Mobile).
GP2X-2600 -- An emulator for the GP2X handheld console.
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