Buzz Bombers is an arcade action game similar to Centipede. You control a can of bug spray at the bottom of the screen, and you need to defend yourself from the swarms of incoming bees. The bees start at the top of the screen, and fly their way back and forth, slowly heading towards the bottom of the screen. If they reach the ground, they will pollinate the flowers there which causes them to grow and will restrict movement of your spray can. When you shoot a bee, it will turn into a honeycomb. The honeycombs will cause the bees to head towards the ground even faster, since they will turn around when one is in their way. Your spray can is able to shoot the honeycombs, but if you leave them in place a hummingbird will fly around and eat the honey from them. The more honey the hummingbird eats, the more points you get. The game ends when all of your spray cans are destroyed by growing flowers.
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It still has all that good arcade mumbo-jumbo that games back in the early 80's were aiming for. One that I liked being how you lose the game if you run out of spray, so you can't just spray all willy-nilly! You can get a new can after, I think, every 20,000 points, keeping the wheel of getting as many points as possible at its peak importance. You have a hummingbird that helps you get points a bit faster, but I'm an idiot that didn't read the manual at first so I kept wasting insane amounts of bug spray to kill this bird that was helping me LOL.
Buzz Bombers clearly has a lot of love put into it, with full-on Pacman-esque cutscenes, and constant background music, which not only was pretty unheard of for the time, but sounds pretty good for what they were trying for (Flight of the Bumblebee)! It even has multiple title screens, which is the earliest home console game I've played to have that (Tunnel Runner has a pretty good one, but that came out a year after this).
Overall, Buzz Bombers has a fairly addicting gameplay mechanic going on, one that these 2nd-generation consoles were made to excel at. Obviously, the Intellivision isn't going to have the most gorgeous graphics, but for the time it came out, they clearly put some good effort. I had a lot of fun playing Buzz Bombers, and will probably reach out to play it again sometime in the future!
4/5