Bomb was a small label that sold Atari 2600 cartridges in 1983, with releases in the UK, Germany and North America. Several of its games are credited to the Asian developer Onbase Co., and the same titles were often sold by other companies under different names. Original Bomb cartridges are very rare today. The British magazine TV Gamer reviewed several of them and rated Assault the highest.
Assault: a fixed-screen shooter against a mother ship, with the option of firing sideways as well as up.
Z-Tack: you attack enemy bases hidden in a city, a reversal of Imagic’s Atlantis.
Wall-Defender: guard a fortress of several walls and run to the next ring before the outer one falls.
Great Escape: shoot meteorites and aliens in space that scrolls in four directions. A PAL version is here too.
Pick one below and play it in your browser.
Assault is a fixed-screen space shooter for the Atari 2600, developed and published in 1983 by Bomb, a small company based in Asia. An alien mother ship hovers above you and keeps launching smaller attack craft, and you have to shoot them down before their fire wears your weapon away. It borrows a lot from games like Galaxian and Demon Attack, but its ability to fire sideways as well as upwards gives it a feel of its own. You can play it here in your browser.
Z-Tack is a 1983 shooter released on the Bomb label and made by the Asian developer Onbase Co. You fly a small UFO-like craft over a city and destroy the enemy bases hidden among its buildings while they fire back at you. It turns Imagic’s Atlantis on its head: this time you are the attacker, not the defender. You can play it here in your browser.
Wall-Defender is a 1983 single-player shooter for the Atari 2600, released under the Bomb label of the Asian developer Onbase Co. You guard a fortress made of several rings of wall against waves of aliens that fly straight into it. The twist: when the outer wall is about to fall, you must run across a bridge to the next one in time. You can play it here in your browser.
Great Escape is a 1983 space shooter for the Atari 2600, sold under the Bomb label, a range of cartridges from the Asian developer Onbase. Your ship sits in the middle of the screen while space scrolls around it in four directions, and you shoot meteorites and aliens while using two radar scanners to keep away from a deadly Super Alien. This page has the NTSC cartridge; the PAL version is on this site as Great Escape (Europe). You can play it here in your browser.
Great Escape is a 1983 space shooter for the Atari 2600 from Bomb, a budget label of the Asian developer Onbase, and this page has the European PAL version. Your ship stays in the centre of the screen while space scrolls around it, and you shoot meteorites and aliens while watching your radar for the Super Alien, which destroys you on contact. The NTSC version, with a full description of the game, is on this site as Great Escape (USA). You can play this one here in your browser.