DOS Game: Mr. Boom

Mr. Boom gameplay, played and recorded with DOSBox.

This is a multiplayer game only, there's no single player option.

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Gaming

Tags:

• mr
• mr.
• boom
• bomberman
• dyna
• blaster
• clone
• dos
• games
• dosbox

[kingmetaknight1]

I once played this with 7 people all on one keyboard. Good times. :P

[zirkoni88]

@kingmetaknight1 How is that even possible? 3-4 people on the same keyboard is pretty much the maximum, after that you just run out of space.

[Virux333]

Firstsly, such an awesome game :P And secondly i was just wondering if you played this on the one computer or you networked two computers? - and if you used DosBox?. If you did network it between computers, could you please intruct me how to do so - i'm having trouble :(. I'm also using DosBox 0.74. Thankyou :)

[zirkoni88]

@Virux333 The game uses IPX, so

1. Enable IPX (type ipx true in DOSBox or edit the .conf-file)

2. Host starts an IPX server by typing: ipxnet startserver

3. Others connect the server by typing: ipxnet connect "hostname"

where "hostname" is the ip-address or hostname of the server.

4. Start the game.

[zirkoni88]

@zirkoni88 Or you can use YANG (Yet Another Netplay Guider) that does all this automatically. It also has a chat function and you can create and advertise your room so that anyone can join your game.

[kingmetaknight1]

@zirkoni88 It was possible; I might have left out a rarely-used function and used 6 keys for each player--4 directions and 2 buttons. Also, I relabeled the entire keyboard with masking tape. It used upside-down "WASD"-style controls ("456T"??) in places too, so that we could sit around the keyboard in a circle.

This was a ridiculously long time ago.

[phu303]

@zirkoni88 indeed. besides there would be times when too many buttons would be pushed at the same time.. which again would freeze players gameplay.. :( was a regular gayness thing that happened when i played slicks n slide and mine bombers :)

[Virux333]

@zirkoni88 Sweet I'll have a look into this thanks

[Virux333]

@zirkoni88 Hey thanks heaps worked perfectly :D