Note the polar bear on the right.
Bomb Kick is a 1998 single-screen Elimination Platformer made for arcades by Korean company Yun Sung.
Like other games of its kind, it's plot... doesn't really matter. Player controls one of three characters, soccer player Toto, fairy Jenny and polar bear Mola, across a series of stages themed after works of literature and filled with enemies they must take out, capping with a boss battle at the end. True to the title, you can launch bombs at enemies by kicking projectiles out of your shoes, until there's nothing else left to kick at.
Two years later, a different Korean company called Limenko will make Dynamite Bomber, another single-screen platformer game with a similar premise and gameplay method.
Kicking off a Bombed-out Trope List...
- Adaptational Villainy:
- The world based on Journey to the West sic villainous versions of the book's characters as mooks, where you'll face enemies resembling Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing, and even Tang Sanzhang isn't spared from being made into mooks you blow up.
- "Aladdin", a world that rips off the Disney movie wholesale, somehow contains evil versions of Abu and Aladdin himself, and the boss you must kill at the end is none other than the Genie.
- Armed Legs: The very premise; your boots hide a limitless amount of explosives useful for clearing the stages of enemies.
- Ball of Light Transformation: The ghost-women from "Goblin" can change into sentient fireballs to chase you down.
- Cartoon Bomb: There's a pickup resembling the typical black-ball-with-a-fuse cartoon bombs, that turn your kicked-out projectiles into similar cartoon bombs that deals greater damage.
- Double Jump: You're granted this ability if you're playing as Jeny the fairy.
- Flying on a Cloud: Fittingly enough, in the first few stages based on Journey to the West you fight airborne enemies resembling Sun Wukong who rides flying clouds.
- Living Statue: "Stone" world is filled with animated clay and stone statue enemies.
- Lotus Position: The first boss is based on Great Buddha Vairocana, who fittingly sits on a large lotus platform cross-legged while using his meditation to summon projectile attacks.
- Mook Maker: In each and every world, the first stage has reflective scrolls that summons low-level enemies, Joy World contains toy dispensers who drops new enemies until they're destroyed, "Stone" world has caverns containing sliding doors that pushes open to reveal extra mooks, and so on. You'll need to destroy all the mook makers and deal with leftover mooks to clear each stage.
- My Little Panzer: "Joy World", whose toys are hostile and tries hunting you down on sight.
- Musical Anatomy: "Music" is inhabited entirely by music-themed enemies, with eyes and limbs while having body parts designed after instruments. With a set of three walking trumpets with eyes fused together as the stage boss.
- Pig Man: The first few stages appropriately has pig-humans as enemies, since it's based on Zhu Bajie.
- Rolling Attack: The basket-men enemies from "Aladdin" can roll themselves in their baskets as an attack.
- I Shall Taunt You: Those mooks based on Sha Wujing, if out of reach, has an animation where they taunt you by smacking their backsides.
- Shows Damage: When you damage bosses enough, they turn blue when their health reaches around 15%. However in "Aladdin" the boss is none other than the Genie from the Disney film who turns red instead...
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: "Goblin", the last stage, has long-haired ghost-women clad in white as enemies. All of them with a single eye.
- Toy Time: "Joy World" is a sized-up playset filled with Living Toy enemies.
- Whole-Plot Reference: The levels:
- Opening levels are based on Journey to the West, with enemy designs based on the novel's characters.
- The world simply called "Aladdin" doesn't even try hiding what it's ripping off, though it's closer to the Disney film instead of the original folk tale (without permission from Disney). With enemies based on Abu, Razoul, minor background characters from the film like the snake charmer and basket man, and even Aladdin himself! That's not going into how the game made the Robin Williams incarnation of genie as the stage's boss... The Genie from also make cameo appearances in the background of several stages in "Joy World".
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