Tuesday, February 27, 2024

PrinceWatercress plays Ka-Blooey - Part 1 of 25


Are you ready for 130 levels of explosive fun that will tie your brain in knots? Then this is the game for you!

It's Ka-blooey! It's 130 levels of controlled, thought-out, destructive, bomb-detonating fun for the Super Nintendo...if you can figure everything out!

Level 1


The D-Pad moves you, the little blue guy, around, but you will need to rotate your control 45 degrees to the right so you can easily tell where you are going. It takes a little while to get used to, but once you're used to it, you'll be able to easily move through the levels. A or X, when held, lets you explode bombs.

Select gives you a detailed, close-up view of part of the map, while Start allows you to see more of the map from a further distance.

The cracked titles will fall apart after you walk off of them. The normal tiles are, well, normal.

The small bombs in this level have a very limited range and will only blow up anything right next to them. To detonate them, walk up to one and hold A until the countdown is finished. When you hear the rumbling sound, the bomb is about to blow. The bomb will not explode until you walk away from it.

If you blow yourself up with a bomb or get caught in the range of a bomb explosion, you will lose a life. If you walk off the tiles and into the blue water below, that will also cost a life. You will also lose a life if the timer goes down to zero.

At the bottom of the screen, you'll have your bonus - which doubles as a timer - the current level number you are on and the amount of lives you have left, the number of bombs left to get rid of, and the current score for both Player 1 and Player 2 in case of a two-player game. When you clear a level, you will get an extra life. You'll also get a 10-point bonus for each tile left in the level.

To beat this level, you just need to go either clockwise or counter-/anti-clockwise around the room and blow up the bombs without blowing yourself up or falling into the water. That's it, really.

Level 2


The slightly bigger bomb is the medium bomb. It has a slightly larger explosion range compared to the small bomb, and can hit things up to two tiles away. The range is in more of a diamond pattern than a square pattern, so it has a one-square diagonal range and if you were to detonate it and press Start, you'll get a better idea of the range of the explosion.

The shiny light-blue tiles are ice. You will slide off of them in the direction that you walked into them from until you hit another non-ice tile. It is also easy to slide off the level and into the water if you are not careful.

Blow up the small bomb in the lower-left corner and move up, then detonate the small bomb to the left of the cracked title in the center. Then, go to the small bomb in the lower-right corner, detonate, and step left.

Level 3

You'll be introduced to the slot tiles. The slot tiles have a brown track on them, and if you walk up to a bomb on a slot tile and press B or Y, you can pick it up, move it across other slot tiles, and put it back with B or Y. If you walk onto a non-slot tile, or if you walk into a slot tile that already has a bomb on it, you will drop the bomb.

Go up to the slot tiles on the lower-right corner and move the small bomb left. Detonate it, then step right. That clears the level.

Level 4

The even bigger bomb is the large bomb. It is the largest of the three bombs, and its explosion travels three tiles in the cardinal directions (north, west, east and south) and two tiles in the diagonal directions.

Detonate the bomb near the start, then move down. Go to the large bomb, head left across the ice, and detonate the small bomb in the upper-left corner. Go back to the large bomb, then go to the small and medium bomb near the left-most ice tile. Detonate the small bomb and move down. Go to the small bomb to the right, detonate, and step to the right. Go right to the final small bomb, detonate, and step left.

Level 5

Take the lower path to the upper-right corner and detonate the small bomb, then head left back to the small bomb, detonate it, and move down. Go further down and detonate the small bomb, then go to the lower-left corner and detonate that small bomb. From here, you'll want to go right and go in a circle while detonating the remaining small bombs.

Level 6

The teleporters will take you from one place to another, but watch out! It is possible to teleport yourself into a trap if you're unaware or you don't know the level layout yet.

Move the large bomb on the slot tiles one tile to the right, then go right, detonate the small bomb, and enter the teleporter in the upper-right corner.

Level 7

Place the medium bomb on the slot tiles south of the large bomb in the upper-right corner, then place the small bomb on the tile south of the medium bomb. Detonate the small bomb, then move down or left.

Level 8

Go right, right, down, left, down, right, up, right, down, left, up, and right. Do not detonate the bomb until you reach the final destination, which is the lone small bomb on the seventh column. Once you reach it, detonate, then go left, down, right, up, left, down, left, up, right, up, left, left. As you move from bomb to bomb, you'll want to detonate each bomb along the way.

Level 9

Move the large bomb on the slot tiles to the lower-right slot tile, then detonate the small bomb just left of the center of the level and step down. You'll be on the only title that does not get blown up and you will survive.

Level 10

Go down until you enter the teleporter. Go up, detonate the small bomb, and enter the teleporter. Detonate the small bomb, then go down to the large bomb. Detonate the large bomb and enter the teleporter. You'll be back at the start. Detonate the small bomb and move down.

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