Balloon King 0.81

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Balloon King 0.81

by pahammond

Cart #balloonking-1 | 2023-09-19 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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The peasants are revolting!

Protect the king and shoots the balloons before they can capture the king and carry him away.

You have infinite player bows but only 3 chances to save the king (extra life at 10,000 points).

Controls

[X] - Fire

Thanks To

• Finn for testing
• @bikibird for the excellent speako8 library
• @IndieGamerChick for her inspiring review of the original (that I'd never heard of):
  • [https://indiegamerchick.com/2023/01/06/king-balloon-1980-arcade-review/]

Version History

• 0.80 - 16-Sep-2023 - Released
• 0.81 - 16-Sep-2023 - Balloons no longer all return home when player hit
• 0.82 - 20-Sep-2023 - Fixed crash with overlapping speech

The audio on this is tremendous. Playing with headphones on it really felt like I was standing under the speakers in an arcade cabinet's hood.

game crashed in stage 8
23270

Damn. I’ll look into that @OWD5238

Any details of the crash?

I love this!

It's is a really interesting shooter that requires different tactics to the usual gameplay of Space Invaders / Galaxian / etc. It took me a while to realise that it can be a good thing to sacrifice your ship, if it lets you save the king.

Very fun game! Love that helium filled voice. So cute!

Great game! It's sometimes hard to differentiate between the stars and the enemy bullets.

pahammond is quickly becoming the king of arcade ports! I never heard of this one but it's super fun.
Also I wanted to complete the quote. At least the Mel Brooks' version "The peasants are revolting!" "You said it! They stink on ice!"