Balloon Kid

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Balloon Kid

Developer(s)	Nintendo
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Designer(s)	Yoshio Sakamoto
Release date(s)	October, 1990 January 31, 1991
Genre(s)	Platform game
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	Not Rated (NR)
Platform(s)	Game Boy
Media	Cartridge

Balloon Kid is a platforming game for the Game Boy released in October of 1990 in North America. It is a sequel to Balloon Fight. Unlike Balloon Fight, Balloon Kid is not an arcade-style game, has a plot, and has an ungeneric, named protagonist with a personality.

1 Plot
- 1.1 Setting
- 1.2 Story
2 Gameplay
3 Alternate versions
- 3.1 Balloon Fight GB
- 3.2 Hello Kitty World
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Setting

Balloon Kid takes place in a small part of an unnamed, Earth-like world. The only city in this part of the world is Pencilvania, a town with pencil-shaped skyscrapers. Other places this part of the world includes are these unnamed locations in order of appearance: a forest, an ocean full of whales, an icy mountain, and an industrial building. The very first place a player starts from is a small house.

[edit] Story

Balloon Kid stars Alice, a girl whose little brother had balloons tied to him, which caused him to float away, and Alice had to save him from tragedy. She went through Pencilvania, then through a forest, then over an ocean while flying inside and outside a whale, then went up an icy mountain, and then finally, an industrial building. After she saved her little brother, they tried to fly back home, until one of the Balloon Fighters from the original Balloon Fight bumped into Alice on purpose, and made her drop her little brother into the ocean.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Gameplay

In 1-player mode, the gameplay is an arrangement of the Balloon Trip mode of Balloon Fight, where the screen automatically scrolls toward the left, while the player controls Alice that uses two balloons to float into the air with. To make her float in the air, the player must press (and sometimes hold) the A button to make her wave her arms to hover upward. The player must also prevent Alice from bumping into enemies that are attempting to pop her balloons. Alice also has the ability to remove her balloons and walk on the ground, as well as jumping. If both of her balloons are popped or removed, and if she lands safely, she can reinflate them. To defeat bosses, the player must make her fly about the bosses and detach her balloons to bounce on the bosses. She can also jump and stomp on them, whenever it is safe for her.

In 2-player mode, it is based on Balloon Fight's Game A and Game B modes, where one player battles against another player. One player controls Alice, while the other controls Alice's younger brother.

Balloon Kid's Balloon Trip mode is based on Balloon Fight's mode of the same name, but with Alice instead of the original, generic Balloon Fighter. Everything else, including the BGM itself, is unchanged from Balloon Fight's Balloon Trip mode.

[edit] Alternate versions

[edit] Balloon Fight GB

A colorized remake of this game called Balloon Fight GB was released only in Japan in 2000. The only difference besides being colorized, is that players are allowed to pick any stage they want after they completed them, and Super Game Boy features where added. Also, Nintendo modified Alice's look. Balloon Fight GB was released only for the Game Boy Color version of the Nintendo Power flash RAM cartridge series.

[edit] Hello Kitty World

Hello Kitty World was the Famicom version of Balloon Kid. The only notable changes to the game were Alice being replaced with Hello Kitty and the updated/changed visuals.