Causes bombs to explode in a large cross-shaped blast by adding two additional explosions in each cardinal direction.
The damage for a single explosion is unchanged (60) 0.75x times its normal damage (resulting in 75 damage per explosion). Each successive explosion that hits the same enemy has its damage halved.
Notes[ | ]
The damage per successive explosion is: 60, 30, 15, 7.5, 3.75, 1.875, 0.9375, 0.46875, 0.234375.
The damage per successive explosion is: 75, 37.5, 18.75, 9.375, 4.6875, 2.34375, 1.171875, 0.5859375, 0.29296875.
Mr. Mega changes the explosions' base damage to 110/185, with the same damage reductions as above.
Red Locusts will create additional smaller explosions that spawn in a tight cross formation.
Pyromaniac: Heals Isaac multiple times per bomb depending on the number of explosions that hit him.
Dr. Fetus: Bomber Boy affects the bombs fired by Dr. Fetus.
Doctor's Remote/Epic Fetus: Bomber Boy affects the missiles' explosions from Epic Fetus, with the explosions' multiplier resulting in 15 times Isaac's damage per explosion. Unlike with regular bombs, Bomber Boy won't decrease the damage from each of the missile's successive explosions, drastically increasing damage.
Hot Bombs: Each extra explosion creates an additional fire.
Mr. Mega: All explosions deal more damage, have a larger radius and will overlap each other more, potentially vastly increasing damage. Caution should be exercised, as the explosions' increased radius make self-damage likely.
Sad Bombs: Each explosion releases 10 tears in all directions.
Sad Bombs: Only the center-most explosion creates 10 tears.
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Trivia[ | ]
Bomber Boy is a reference to the 1983 video-game Bomberman. Bomber Boy is, specifically, the original name of a Game Boy game known as Atomic Punk in the United States and Dynablaster in Europe and Oceania.
As of Repentance, the bomb's appearance when using this item also references how bombs look in Bomberman.
Before Repentance, the item's quote was "Explosive blast!".
Bugs[ | ]
Bug!
Due to the extreme force of multiple simultaneous explosions, it is possible for Bomber Boy bombs (especially when combined with Mr. Mega) to propel Isaac into obstacles or over pits.