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Balloon Fight
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Item Description
Two balloons, one flap button and a stretch of water with something hungry lurking just below the surface: Balloon Fight builds an entire arcade duel out of almost nothing. Developed by Nintendo with HAL Laboratory, and openly inspired by Williams' Joust, it has a drifting, momentum-heavy flight model unlike anything else in the early NES library. You never simply move your Balloon Fighter. You coax him upward with taps of the button, then let inertia carry him sideways as you line up an attack.
In the main game the goal is to come down on top of the enemy Balloon Fighters and pop their balloons before they pop yours. A beaten enemy drifts toward the water under a parachute, giving you a brief, frantic window to finish the job before he lands safely and inflates a fresh balloon. Lightning sparks spin out of the clouds, a giant piranha leaps from the water to swallow anyone flying too low, and every few stages a bonus round fills the screen with balloons rising from chimneys for a quick points grab. Lose one balloon and you fly heavier, which makes every collision a real swing in momentum.
Two players can fly together, which turns the game into the kind of cooperative match that tends to slide into friendly sabotage. Then there is Balloon Trip, the mode many players remember most: a side-scrolling endurance run where you weave through sparks, collect balloons and climb the rankings on a single life. It was added for the home version, and its music became one of Nintendo's most recognizable early tunes.
The game's echoes reach surprisingly far. Its Balloon Trip music turns up in Super Smash Bros. Melee, the Villager borrows the Balloon Fighter's helmet as a special move, and a Balloon Fight stage drawn in original 8-bit style appears in the Smash series. Playing the cartridge on an NES gives you the original floaty physics exactly as Nintendo tuned them: easy to understand in thirty seconds and perfectly capable of eating an entire evening.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1985
- Publisher
- Sharp
- Developer
- Nintendo R&D1
- Genre
- Platformer, Arcade
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
About the game
Balloon Fight was developed and released by Nintendo, being the console port of the Arcade game VS. Balloon Fight (which was developed at the same time by another team, but released first). It was ported onto numerous other systems, and has more recently been released on the Nintendo Wii U. The game allowed for 1 player and 2 player gameplay, providing cooperative play to get past each stage.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayBalloon Fight on NES
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