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BOOM

Rating:	Your rating: None Average: 4.8 (17 votes)
Category:	Arcade
Perspective:	Top Down
Year released:	1997
Author:	Federico Filipponi
Publisher:	Factor Software
Engine:	Sprite Animation Toolkit

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BOOM_1.0.sit (1.89 MB)
MD5: 4be430e950a21cfc207d8d684f31165a
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS X

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BOOM-114r2.bin (2.15 MB)
MD5: f7f54ee6b74a3d7d344d86369363ec4b
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS X

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BOOM2.zip (19.96 MB)
MD5: 5920fdebe104a8622552b900b462c146
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS X

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boom-123.sit (2.23 MB)
MD5: 524e662e0dccf43456e727ec62e497a9
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS X

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BOOM_1.4.5.zip (2.57 MB)
MD5: 69b0d79cdd7e8dad55174c2dbb68203e
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS X

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BOOM_1.4.5.sitx (2.28 MB)
MD5: 56215de83c3fdd53f28ea65c0bb43bb5
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS X

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boom-162.dmg_.zip (3.16 MB)
MD5: 207989d2eef47b4a1e4003c4e518fd00
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS X

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boom-163.sit (2.93 MB)
MD5: 0ce6b14956306396018580bc24b13462
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS X

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BOOMEdit-32.dmg_.tgz (304.07 KB)
MD5: c5eacec146953c88586dea458917974f
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS X

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boom-206.dmg (19.11 MB)
MD5: a2b556569076123ecbebf10ae6658a0a
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS X

Emulation
This game works with: SheepShaver, Basilisk II,

Described by the creators as "Bomberman meets Doom", Boom vigorously thrusts 80 levels directly into your cranium. You and a friend/relative/hostage can traverse 8 different areas and populated with creatively devious enemies to highly memorable backing music in this classic arcade thriller

I’m sorry to inform you that Factor Software will be going out of business on October 1, 2016.
Unfortunately, the decline in sales has made this business uneconomic.
I would like to thank all my customers for having made possible this adventure for almost 19 years.

Goodbye. — Factor Software

BOOM's main features are:
- Smooth sprite based animations in 256 colors
- 8 different soundtracks and multi-channel sound effects
- Simultaneous two players action
- 80 different levels
- 10 different enemy characters varying in intelligence and weaponry
- Mid-game monsters and a final Super Boss

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k PPC PPC (Carbonized) x86 (Intel:Mac)

System Requirements: (v.1.1.4)
- 68030/040 or PowerPC
- 4.5 MBytes free memory
- Mac OS 7.0.1 or later
- 640x480 or larger monitor supporting 256 colors
- Sound Manager 3.0 or later
Recommended Configuration:
- Fast (25Mhz or better) 68040 or PowerPC
- Mac OS 7.5.x or later
- Sound Manager 3.2 or later on PPC machines

Mac OS 7.0.1 — Mac OS X (Sierra), download the right version for you!

Comments

by CalFwih22 - 2017, November 19 - 12:50am

This is one of my favorite childhood games. It still plays great on modern Mac OS X and I regularly play the two player with a game controller.

The following serials, found on a serial website, work for activation on 2.0.6:

Name: symmetry // CORE
SN: HEOXKIKPNKBOCIOC

Name: Serial Box
SN: HEXCIKPJJXKAX-280

by Catar4x - 2016, November 19 - 1:05pm

Boom 1.23 serial :
Name: XOR^SS
Code: MEXCIAPHEAXAX-030

by mrdav - 2016, October 18 - 1:47am

There are additional versions here. I have not put them on the page as it seems silly to put up every version we can find. A representative choice for different systems seems best, but I leave that to someone else.

Also if you trawl through archived pages such as this you can get some author information about compatibility

by Dorje - 2015, November 2 - 6:43am

This game is just fantastic, the music, the sprites, everything. I've been watching a video on youtube of two people doing a play through. I was never able to play the game this well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOmkLGTX7Xk

by tariqsteward - 2013, December 31 - 5:24pm

Cool Arcade Game for Mac.
Remeber playing this as a child on my old Mac.

by Alexei - 2012, September 17 - 7:16am

This game was indeed created by factor software, a few years after they made "macpipes"

by themacmeister - 2011, August 16 - 9:31am

I believe it is the same BOOM, but may be pre-Factor Software.

I will leave it for others to judge its Abandonware status, but I believe it is the only bomberman clone for OS8/9?

Link to the the new download pls. It is almost certainly a newer bugfixed version.

by MikeTomTom - 2011, August 16 - 3:23am

Is this BOOM the same game? If so, its still being sold as a US$9.95 shareware by its owner "factor software" - including the earlier 68k & PPC versions, see here.

Of course as its a shareware you are able to "try before you buy", but whether it should be here while the original author has it for DL... What do you think? Perhaps a link to the authors site instead?