Has Anybody ever got close to beating the Video Game "Kaboom"

[emazers]

This and Activisions Stampede were my 2 favorite games. 3 Hours on this game I think the person playing would Crack.

 

 

[exciter1]

Barnstormer is where it’s at!

[marcandre]

A guy on the arcade forum I frequent loves kaboom so much he made his own cabinet 

[iahawks550]

That's an awesome looking cabinet.....Surely that's an interchangeable controller panel. Seems like a waste of time to not have a panel with joysticks

[exciter1]

That’s a tough game. I’d crack! Nice cabinet though.

I was always a fan of Megamania too.

It probably curbed my Galaga obsession.

[marcandre]

4 minutes ago, iahawks550 said:

That's an awesome looking cabinet.....Surely that's an interchangeable controller panel. Seems like a waste of time to not have a panel with joysticks

Nope only plays kaboom. Arcade collectors usually look down on multigames, like what lepar is to brickpickers. He could have put sticks and buttons on that panel but I think he wanted a clean dedicated look. 

Here is the thread with a video https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=397912&highlight=kaboom

[KShine]

I definitely never reached the max on Kaboom (although I was good at it).

I did get into the crazy range (where the 10k skull switches into numbers) on Stampede (but I can't recall how high).

[KShine]

Activision always had some of the best Atari games.

[TheOrcKing]

I didn't think there was a legitimate end to a game like this based purely on score. Here the game just freezes compared to Pac-Man's infamous kill screen bug when hitting stage 256 with the view glitching out as if suddenly going into test mode. Anyway one point shy of a million is impressive and considering the 'freeze', I don't see how the record can be beat.

[emazers]

Another great thing about Activision games was if you hit a certain score you would take a picture of it and send it to Activision and they would send you a patch for that game. Most were pretty easy. My son has a bunch of them.

[TheOrcKing]

I remember those patches. Funny being a kid oddly obsessed with slapping patches all over your jacket, the one you took off for no one. Haha. Kaboom's patch was the "Bucket Brigade" or something like that.

[KShine]

Wow - I just looked up the prices of those patches (and I'm pissed).

[JDLego324]

At some point in Kaboom, I thought the guy's expression changed.  At 20000 points or something like that.  Anyone remember?

 

[MarleyMoose]

I beat the arcade game RoadBlasters in the 80's. I think it was 50 levels.  I sent in a special code for a certificate and got a t-shirt too.

[TheOrcKing]

8 hours ago, MarleyMoose said:

I beat the arcade game RoadBlasters in the 80's. I think it was 50 levels.  I sent in a special code for a certificate and got a t-shirt too.

That was a favorite quarter muncher of mine always playing whenever I saw the cabinet (sitting or standing). Same thing with S.T.U.N. Runner.