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Kaboom! (1981)

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Kaboom! is an action video game published in 1981 by Activision for the Atari 2600. The game involves a Mad Bomber dropping bombs at increasing speeds as the player controls a set of water buckets to catch them. The gameplay was based on the Atari arcade video game Avalanche (1978). Kaboom! was programmed by Larry Kaplan with David Crane coding the graphics for the buckets and Mad Bomber. It was the last game designed by Kaplan for Activision, who left the company shortly after it was released.

In Kaboom!, a "Mad Bomber" drops bombs to watch them explode. The player starts with three water-filled buckets and must catch the bombs to defuse them and gain points.

The game uses the paddle controller, moving the buckets of water left and right by moving the dial clockwise and counter-clockwise.The bombs begin dropping faster as they are collected. When the player misses a bomb, all other bombs on the screen explode and the player loses one bucket. If at least one bucket is missing, the player receives a new bucket every 1,000 points.

Difficulty switches on the console make it so buckets are half as wide, making grabbing bombs more difficult. A two-player option is available where the players take turns controlling buckets and have their own individual scores displayed.

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