Master of Bombs


What is it?
Basically a commercial Trubis clone, 1993, DOS/VGA and Windows 3.1. This game is from Russia.
What computer or emulator will it run on?
A 286. There are no problems with fast computers.
Similar Games
Trubis, Kalah, The Battle on the Black Sea.

Master of Bombs is similar, but not identical with Trubis. Instead of pieces of pipe, here it is bombs and grenades with strange yellow connectors that fall down, and occasionally an igniter. The bombs can be maneuvered, but not rotated. The igniter will blow up the bomb it falls on, and all that are connected to it. This is the only way to get rid of the bombs, they never vanish by themselves.

You get to choose four difficulty settings, classic, normal, hard, and impossible. On classic, all the pieces are one-tile gremades. On normal, there are some two-tile bombs. The higher the difficulty, the larger the pieces. There seems to be some level system within these difficulties, but I never had the patience to wait it out. All I noticed is a slight increase in speed, and fewer igniter as I played on. There was no real sense of achievement, and eventually I got bored.

Master of Bombs was released in 1993 as part of Interplay's Russian 6 Pak. There was a Windows version of this 6 Pak in the same or the next year, and 1997 it was re-released along with Solitaire as Interplay's Classic Collection, for DOS and Windows.


Last modified 2007-09-03