Kaboom!: The Mad Doctor's Revenge

Kaboom!: The Mad Doctor's Revenge is a sequel to the Atari 2600 classic, Kaboom. It was part of Activision's Blast from the Past game collection, which included 3 games. Only one of them (Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure), was released (and even then that version shown looked slightly different and was called Pitfall Harry). The other unreleased game was River Raid: Mission of No Return. Kaboom is a game where you play as this wackjob kid with stupid looking glasses, a baseball glove, and a shirt with supposedly his own initials. In the original 2600 game, the old Doctor Wily looking guy on the top of the Eiffel Tower throws bombs down and you need to catch them in a bucket. The SNES version likely would've innovated upon this, possibly adding powerups, enemies, and a 2P co-op mode (or so I hope) Kaboom actually started development in 1991, where it was shown off a CES that year. Many sources say that the game was being developed by High Voltage Software, however Wikipedia states the company started in 1993, and didn't work on a game until 1995, which was White Men Can't Jump on the Jaguar. They never worked on a single 16-bit game. As for who actually developed the game, I have no clue. I believe it's between Activision themselves, or the developer of Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure, Redline Games. A ROM was found by a member of Atari Age, however he stated he can't release it due to legal reasons, and the version he described was okay at best. Kaboom! was cancelled because the developers couldn't find a way to push the envelope, basically meaning they couldn't come up with a way to make Kaboom! a full game that would make buyers happy with the $60 or so they spent on the game. Maybe they should've listened to me.