Kaboom!

Kaboom! is a 1981 Atari 2600 video game developed and released by Activision in the USA on July 9, 1981. In Kaboom!, a "Mad Bomber" is dropping bombs to watch them explode. The player starts with three buckets and must control water-filled buckets to capture the bombs to defuse them and gain points. The game uses the paddle controller, moving the buckets of water left and right by moving the dial clockwise and counter-clockwise. The more bombs collected leads to the bombs being dropped faster. When the player misses a bomb, all other bombs on the screen explode and the player loses one of their buckets. If at least one bucket is missing, the player will receive a new bucket every 1,000 points. Difficulty switches on the console make it so buckets are half as wide, making grabbing bombs more difficult. A two-player option is available where the players take turns controlling their buckets and have their own individual scores displayed.