Kaboom is an onomatopoeia representing the sound of an explosion.
Kaboom!! is a Mexican variety TV show hosted by Paola Dominguez and Fernando Rico. They discuss sex, films and music. It airs on XHJUB-TV, a Televisa station in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Kaboom was the name of a vitamin fortified, circus-themed breakfast cereal produced by General Mills, which contained oat cereal bits shaped like smiling clown faces and marshmallow bears, lions, elephants, and stars. Its mascot was a smiling circus clown. It originated in 1969.
Known primarily as a breakfast cereal of the 1970s and 1980s, Kaboom remained available for sale until 2010 when it was discontinued by General Mills.
KABOOM! is the debut studio album by the rock/chiptune band I Fight Dragons, released in 2011 by Photo Finish Records. When the band won their release from the record label, they started offering it for free on their site.
All songs written and composed by Brian Mazzaferri, except where noted.
Brian Mazzaferri: lead vocals, acoustic guitar, chiptune (NES, SNES, NES Advantage, NES Power Pad, NES Zapper, Rock Band Guitar, Game Boy, Atari 2600, Commodore 64, Omnichord)
Hari Rao: bass
Packy Lundholm: vocals, electric guitar
Chad Van Dahm: drums
Bill Prokopow: vocals, keyboards, piano, chiptune
Kina Grannis: vocals on "With You"
2010-2011 Glenbrook South High School Choir: vocals on "Suburban Doxology"
Matt Mahaffey: chiptune
Matt Mahaffey: production, recording, mixing, engineering
Bill Prokopow: additional production, mixing
Chris Athens: mastering
Ryan Mauskopf: cover art
Alex R. Kirzhner: art direction, design
Carolyn Tracey: packaging production
Kaboom! is an Activision published in 1981 for Atari 2600 that was designed by Larry Kaplan. It was well-received and successful commercially, selling over one million cartridges by 1983.
Kaboom! is an unauthorized adaptation of the 1978 Atari coin-op Avalanche. The gameplay of both games is fundamentally the same, but Kaboom! was re-themed to be about a mad bomber instead of falling rocks. As an ex-Atari programmer, Larry Kaplan, originally wanted to port Avalanche to the Atari 2600. In Avalanche all the boulders are lined up at the top which is difficult to accomplish on the 2600, hence the shift to the Mad Bomber. David Crane coded the overlaid sprites for the Mad Bomber.
Gameplay in Kaboom! consists of using a paddle controller to catch bombs dropped by the "Mad Bomber" with a set of three buckets. Points are scored for every bomb caught, extra buckets (maximum of three) are awarded at every 1,000 points, and one bucket is lost every time a bomb is missed. As the game progresses, the "Mad Bomber" traverses the top of the screen much more erratically, dropping bombs at increasingly higher speeds, making each of the seven higher levels more difficult.
Kaboom: A Soldier's War Journal was a popular military blog from November 2007 to June 2008, before it was shut down by the writer's military chain-of-command. The author of the online journal, who went by the pseudonym of LT G, wrote about the front-line experiences in the Iraq War as a United States Army soldier. A scout platoon leader, LT G often incorporated the trials and tribulations of his platoon in his writings, offering a brash and brutally honest perspective of modern warfare.Kaboom was shut down, and subsequently deleted, after LT G made a post detailing his turning down of a promotion in an effort to stay with his soldiers.
Before Kaboom was shut down, it was one of the few military blogs to garner attention and press coverage from the print media. This can be attributed to LT G's literary writing style. In a nationally published story chronicling the rise and fall of Kaboom, LT G was revealed to be Matt Gallagher, a young Army officer who had been promoted to captain soon after his blog was shut down.
Life is like a game We gotta choose a side You try to play Before you lose your mind And fade away But you could soon be gone
Who's it gonna be? You gotta tell yourself Its never me And you can justify Most anything So whose side are you on?
Well, one day they'll drop the bomb Who knows who they'll drop it on Maybe someone that you love So before they get to you Do what you gotta do KABOOM! KABOOM!
Don't try to say That we could win it all Some other way Our pride will never fall And never change You better toe the line
Cause in the end The only thing on which You can depend To attack is safer than defend But not for army line
Well, one day they'll drop the bomb Who knows who they'll drop it on Maybe someone that you love So before they get to you Do what you gotta do KABOOM! KABOOM!
Pick which side you're on, drop the bomb (6x)