Mr.Boom

Game: Mr.Boom (DOS, 1997)

Mr.Boom: a port to modern systems of the MS-DOS game Mr.Boom, a Bomberman clone for up to eight players by Remdy Software; its DOS version 3.0 (1997–99) is still a free download on the project’s website. The original assembly source, kept in the repository under an MIT license from Remdy Software, was converted to C with the asm2c tool. It runs as a libretro core on every RetroArch platform (Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, Switch, PS3, Raspberry Pi, and many more) and also as a standalone SDL2 program, or SDL 1.2 on the Atari Falcon. It has up to eight players, bomb pushing, remote-control bombs, kangaroo riding, team modes (color, sex, or “Skynet”), netplay through RetroArch, and, new in this version, computer-controlled bots written in C++ with behavior trees. The latest release is 5.5 (May 19, 2024), as source code; Windows binaries are on the website, and there are packages for many Linux distributions and for Homebrew on macOS. One of its last 100 commits, the one adding the ARM64 Linux build in March 2026, lists Claude as a co-author.

You needNo copy needed: Mr.Boom is a free game by Remdy Software and all its data is included. For the libretro core, RetroArch; the SDL2 version runs on its own on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

How it gets to PC

Port of the released source code

Console

MS-DOS

Original studio

Remdy Software

Year

1997

Author

Javanaise

Stars

231

Last activity

2026-10-25 · 6 days ago

Latest version

5.5 · 2024-05-19

License

MIT

Language

C