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Smash Boom Bash is a game from the early days of Mac OS X. The object of the game is to use your tank to splatter all the bugs before they can eat the humans on the board. When all the bugs on a level have been smooshed the next level starts. If the bugs manage to frag all the humans on a level the game is over. You only get one life.
There are four ways to kill bugs
* Shoot them with the tanks gun
* Run them down with the tank
* Blow the game board out from under them
* If a bug walks over a bullet that has stopped bouncing
Incidentally these same techniques also work on humans, so you need to be careful. If more than half of your tanks hover jets are not over the board your tank will fall, and the game is over.
To move the tank click on the game board and your tank will turn to face the direction of the destination and then move forward until it reaches your desired destination. You can click elsewhere and the tank will start moving towards that direction instead.
To fire press the Space Bar or if you have a two button mouse, right click. The gun will fire a projectile at the game board where your mouse pointer is pointing. Aiming is quite tricky because you need to lead you're target due to the bullets travel time. When the bullet lands it will bounce. On every bounce the bullet will damage the tile it lands on. If a tile takes damage it will get darker
CompatibilityWorks fine on anything between MacOS X 10.0.0.4 and 10.4.11. If the sky box textures get corrupted on your Mac, try dropping the color depth to 16 bit color mode.
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Tested and working fine under OS X 10.6.5. Probably works under Leopard as well...