They can use these Power-Ups in the upcoming rounds for a head start. The players have a very short time to bomb away the soft blocks and find Power-Ups. Sprites can be turned on or off in the GAME SETUP.Ī bonus round happens every third round in a multiplayer game. Very dangerous, because they can fly over You can blow them up, so get them before they get you! Sicknesses can be turned on or off in the GAME SETUP.ĭon’t get too close to these evil creatures, because contact with them is fatal. Also, you can pass on your sickness by touching another player. The sickness will be healed when you pick up a new Power-Up. Pick it up to make one of the other players (or enemy team members) suffer from a severe sickness. There’s only a limited number of Power-Ups available in each round, so be careful when setting bombs - Power-Ups can be destroyed! Increases your range of explosion by one. Once picked up, they have different effects on a player. These orange colored items can be found under soft blocks. If more than two players have to use keyboard controls, we highly recommend attaching additional keyboards to the ADB chain. You can configure the controls of each player in the GAME SETUP. Please note: Press a key _once_ to move in the direction of your choice, press it again to stop. Move the joystick up, down, left or right to move in the appropriate direction. Player 1 and 2 team up against Player 3 and 4.

Similar to Multiplayer Battle, except that two teams try to defeat each other. Up to four players, starting each round with only one bomb and an explosion range of two fields, try to blow up each other, and the one who’s first to win a certain number of rounds (adjustable in the GAME SETUP) wins the game! Take advantage by studying or editing your Press ␑–? forĬampaign, you will be asked for a password The DESIGNER to create campaigns and share Mode first before you may play MASTERMIND. When you select BATTLE from the main menu, you can choose from these options:įinishing these in time will earn you a placeĥ levels to get you started with the game.ġ0 tougher levels. Your task: Bomb your way through the soft blocks and blow up all of the other players!īy default, KABOOM! is in single player mode. At the beginning of each round, you and the other players, equipped with bombs, are placed in the corners of a huge battlefield, consisting of two types of blocks: Soft blocks, which can be destroyed by placing bombs beside them, and solid blocks, which are indestructible. Welcome to the world of explosion! Your ultimate goal is to win the big bombing battle being fought over a number of rounds. If you leave the computer alone for several seconds, the game will display the game’s single player list of best times. Use the joystick or arrow keys and to make a selection. After a short intro sequence, which can be skipped by pressing a key any time, you’ll be presented with the title screen and the game’s main menu with the following options: To start the game from the Finder, double-click on the “KABOOM” application icon. Once installed, you should have the following items in one folder, which we’ll call “Kaboom”. If you received KABOOM! as a single large archive file, use GS-ShrinkIt 1.1 to unpack the entire archive to your hard drive.

A stereo sound card, a joystick and a color display are optional, but recommended. An accelerator card such as the ZipGS or TransWarp GS is also highly recommended for optimum game performance. You can’t play the game from floppy disks.

KABOOM! requires an Apple IIGS with at least 2MB of memory and a hard drive. We hope you enjoy our first game for the Apple IIGS. It is based on a popular arcade classic which is considered one of the best multiplayer games of all time by many serious gamers around the world.īecause we have always been fans of the game, we had the idea of making an adaption for the Apple IIGS that would feature the same addictive gameplay along with some new ideas. KABOOM! is a fast paced arcade game, and the first game ever for the Apple IIGS where up to four players can play simultaneously.

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