Sonic Boom

Information

Genre

Shoot'em Up! - Vertical Scrolling

Language

Machine Language

Controls

Joystick, Keyboard

Players

1, 2 (alt.)

Resolution

Low

Programmer(s)

Richards, Ian

Graphic Artist(s)

Cassells, John, Harris, Ross, Redman, Bryn

Game design

Sega

Musician(s)

Summers, Paul

Sound FX

[unknown]

Year

1990

Publisher

Activision UK

Distributor

Mediagenic

Developer

Source

Licensed from

SEGA

Country

United Kingdom

Software

English

Box/Instructions

English, French, German, Italian

License

Commercial

ST Type

ST, STe, 0.5MB

Number of Disks

2, Single Sided

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 7.2/10 · Votes: 5 · Downloads: 2,196 · Hits: 5,698

Additional Comments

Screenshots (5)

Cover Art (4)

Instructions (13)

Trivia (2)

Origins

Based on Sega 1987 coin-op.

Development

Message from the disk:
Igor was here!

Comments (1)

• Yean3d — 1 Sept 2015

  Sonic Boom was my very first Atari ST game, which gives me a very special and totally arbitrary opinion about it. Playing it nowadays and I feel like 12 yo again, trying for months to beat the level 3 boss: what a jerk he was, with his almost-phallic yellow raygun that I wouldn't ever manage to escape. Next bosses were amazingly easy to beat in comparison, even by handling the gamepad with your left foot. Sonic Boom is a very unbalanced game, with very variable game design, some bosses being great (level 3 and 6) while some other being "wtf-easy" (level 4 and 5) ; unbalanced action as well (end of level 2 has a 2 minutes period where nothing happen at all). Who care: this game is my Proust's madeleine!