But none of them have the same charisma as Kaboom. Activision would have been foolish not to include this game on their Action Pack Volumes for Macintosh and Windows PCs. They even re-worked the controls of the games so it could be played with a PC mouse. But it's not the same. You have to play Kaboom on a real Atari 2600 to experience the full effect and charm of this game.
Emulators come very close to displaying the game, but the controls are where they come up short.
There's nothing like playing the game with a set of paddle controllers. Ain t nothing like the real thing. Kaboom was actually based on an arcade coin-op by Atari called Avalanche. When Activision released the game and distributed the cartridge to magazine publishers, they sent a person dressed up as the Mad Bomber to deliver the game to the offices of the magazine publishers. A player can choose to play the role of the Mad Bomber while the other player can try to catch the falling bombs.