Baby Boomer (video game)

Baby Boomer is a light gun shooter released by Color Dreams for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Zapper in 1989 in North America. Cartridges were manufactured and sold without being licensed by Nintendo. In Brazil, Color Dreams licensed the game to Gradiente.

Baby Boomer
Developer(s)	Color Dreams
Publisher(s)	Color Dreams Gradiente (Brazil)
Designer(s)	Jim Meuer
Platform(s)	Nintendo Entertainment System
Release	NA: 1989 SA: 1989
Genre(s)	Light gun shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Gameplay

Boomer has fallen down a hole, leading to his instant demise.

Baby Boomer left his crib and set out for the dangerous wilderness outside of his house.

As Boomer crawls across the screen toward numerous dangers, such as birds of prey and bottomless pits, the player uses the Zapper to shoot hazards before they hurt Boomer. Shooting birds kills them; shooting clouds makes them form ice bridges over pits. Levels include a graveyard, the "Pearly Gates" of heaven, and the pits of hell. Up to two players can participate simultaneously and use the controller along with the Zapper.

Release

This is the first game by Color Dreams,^{[citation needed]} and one of two unlicensed light gun games.^[1] Like the company's other unlicensed games, rather than the typical grey NES cartridge, Baby Boomer is baby blue with a design altered to bypass Nintendo's 10NES copy protection system.

Reception

NintendoAge eZine compared it to Gumshoe and said, "Though it's not the worst of the Color Dreams releases, it's still pretty lame, replayability 2/10, and that's generous."^[1]

Sequel

A sequel to Baby Boomer, titled "Baby Boomer 2: 35 Years Too Soon", was released on August 16th, 2024 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5^[2] and the Epic Games Store.^[3][4] The game was developed by indie studio Kimulator's Films under license from Piko Interactive and Color Dreams.^[a][5]

Notes

1. As Wisdom Tree