Who remembers this game on the classic NES? This was a great simple game where you tried to take out enemies via popping their helium filled balloons. Then you can knock them off the platform before they pump their ballons back up and return to flight. What made this game so fun was that you had to constantly press a button to keep yourself flying in the air or else enemies will swoop down and pop your balloons. Various other obstacles lie in Balloon Fight including big fish that try to eat you if you drop close to the water, clouds that shoot electric sparks that bounce on the screen, and spinning platform that make you lose your control.
Balloon Fight symbolizes the greatness in simplicity. All that you have to do is pop enemy balloons. I still miss the music in this game. What made NES music so great was that they were simple and short. They could be on a loop and would listen to them forever. This music reminds of short little catchy ditties or jingles that hook you in instantly. After seeing Balloon Fight reappear on the Nintendo DS in WarioWare Touched, I realized how great Nintendo was in the 80s. During this time, all we had was an A and B button. Later on several more button were added to the game pad, X, Y, L, and R on the Super Nintendo. Now with the Wii, we have a totally different gaming device that evolved from the traditional gamepad. Having Nintendo last so long throughout the years ensure that video game past will never die. All of us old gamers are always glad to see our old favorite resurface after so many years of dormancy.
Now I leave you with two videos showing the original Balloon Fight on the NES and the new version on the DS game, Warioware Touched:
Balloon Fight for the NES
Balloon Fight for the Nintendo DS
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cool post. I’ll definitely have to check out Warioware touched now. you know they also remade balloon fight as Tingle’s Balloon Fight for the DS, sadly it only came out in japan. if you are shady though, you can find a rom of it, since it is a very rare game even in japan.
Anyway, I also loved the balloon fight music, it was very catchy! I always loved the death jingle in the Balloon Trip section of the game.
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this brings back memories! this is one of those games I completely forgot about. It looks like it hasn’t changed that much either. I will be sure to pick it up, thanks for the article.