Boum — previously unknown port of a famous game

August 4, 2018, 04:24 Mikhail Sudakov ред.

Boum(http://idpixel.ru/games/boum/) is the arcade game, that was found by one of the members of Spectrum Computing community. It was released in 1985 in Argentina. The possibilities that this game was released in other countries are close to zero.

Because of its rarity Boum was absent even from the biggest Spectrum databases, but in a nutshell it is a clone of a very popular game called Plane & Tank, which was published by many different companies, RadioShack included.

The player's goal was to get the tank to the other side of the bridge, while being constantly bombarded by some evil minded guys on planes. Aircrafts are absent in Boum and bonuses are falling from the skies in addition to bombs, but the tank is still here. After every successful traverse the difficulty level increases. The player has only six lives, so the whole ordeal is pretty challenging.

The Boum game was made by the guy named Eric A. Parisi and is available for download.