Kaboom! (Atari 2600) How To Beat Home Video Games

[CJP120]

didnt know this was an actual game, just thought it was a made up arcade minigame on sims 2 ds

[diminyon]

i luv this game i wish i had kept this classic one of the best out there

[RIVEXNGLE]

Wait a minute... YOU CAN BEAT THIS GAME?

OH! I'VE BEEN LIED TO ALL THESE YEARS!

[Bittergamer1886]

Did anyone notice that the score at the end of the video stopped on 1335? This game is very close to being 1337!

[snk1324]

If you guys like this you should check out the Kaboom game I created on the iPhone and iPod touch. Just search the App store for "Kaboom!", by Stacey Abshire

[ICURUOK]

I have a cheap burger king handheld version of this its actually quite good

[fareedbakhit]

man this looks so hard playing it with a joystick but back then that's the only controller we had.

[marsiozo]

no man...I used to own this game machine and this game as a kid...

this game was played using a 'paddle' ; some sort of round dial check it up on youtube....

atari 2600 paddle

[4everOscar]

games back then sure were something

[Bittergamer1886]

@4everOscar Damn straight. Like the "Vectrex".

[woofyhound]

cool.

[AMOVIEROOM]

I still have my Atari! LOL! i DO AND MY Nintendo. LOL!

[Kiara72]

I really miss that game...

[jamilo5]

i was at a game convention an there was a tortement for this game the one guy got 1/3 of the world record then went for it again and stomped it and had 22569 old record was something around 15000 it was great i got a pic on my cell phone :)

[pretearking]

You got a what on your cell phone?

[jamilo5]

a pic of the new world record

[1978mtb]

@jamilo5 my brother got over 10000 on this game back in the day. the bombers face changes when get over the 10000 point mark!

[brownies4you]

Thank you for the help.

[Vi2Tibian]

this game is.... GUITAR HERO ATARI!!!!

xD

[hawjhawj68]

Wow, I love these videos of the old early 80's games.

Don't think I could ever go back to playing many of them though. I've been spoiled by the graphics and complexity of the more recent PS2 games like God of War and the Tomb Raider series.

I spent many hours with these games back in the day though.

[ElectricAlienStudios]

Lol, Guitar Heros inspiration.

[LTDANMAN44]

THIS GAME IS FUCKING HARD

[WULFY1993]

a store called the Games exchange an awsome videogamestore in down town kitchener ontario. and yes i uses paddles cus i have an origanal atari 2600

[WULFY1993]

i just bought this game today its fun as hell.

[nairb1977]

yo! where'd you get it and do you use the paddle control?

[stevenscottoddballz]

I had this. Do I remember correctly that the Bomber does something special for you at 10,000 points? Do you know what it is? Is there a video of this?

[wakkydude]

He does a surprised face. There is a video.

[stevenscottoddballz]

Thanks. I saw the video, but it wasn't very clear. Thanks again!

[schoolfilmer]

I hope someone makes a remake of this game.

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

Looks pretty simple

I could make a remake, it would just take a bit of time

Contact me if anyone is interested in me making it.

[FamilyBeCrazy]

@schoolfilmer - There is an iphone game that has similar gameplay called Mad Monkey and it gets insanely fast. "ninja monkeys in action on iphone" pulls it up on youtube.

[Bittergamer1886]

@schoolfilmer Well... they did. It's a keychain game made by Tiger Electronics. They WOULD make a Kaboom remake, but Activision is too damn busy stuffing the market's face with bland First Person Shooters and boring as hell music games. Seriously, what went wrong with Activision? When will they ever go back to what made them good; games with some actual creativity?

[schoolfilmer]

@Bittergamer1886

No one has a clue what happened to them. Hell, indie games has more originality than Activision has now.

[Bittergamer1886]

@schoolfilmer Exactly, my friend. If they released more games like the new Ghostbusters game, then maybe CoD wouldn't exist, and games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band would only have a couple of sequels. Wonderful games like that should come out instead.

[Varlin2]

Same here!!! Record near 282K, totalled 3 pairs, cleaned them like 15 times each before they became unusable. I was pretty disappointed to see the 100K didn't change madbomber's face.

[rivrin]

This was actually one of my favourite games as a kid. Got pretty good at it, not perfect or anything; my record was about 300,000 points. What was annoying was when the paddle controls got all jittery. I wore out quite a few of them. Pulling off the cap to clean and oil them helped a bit, but they were never again good as new.