Description
Balloon Kid Game Boy
Balloon Kid is a flying platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy on October 5, 1990, in North America and on January 31, 1991, in Europe. It is the sequel to Balloon Fight. It was never released in Japan for the original Game Boy; however, two years after its original release, a licensed Family Computer port titled Hello Kitty World (ハローキティワールド, Harō Kiti Wārudo) was reprogrammed and released by Sanrio’s subsidiary Character Soft exclusively in Japan on March 27, 1992. A Game Boy Colour edition with a few new features titled Balloon Fight GB (バルーンファイトＧＢ, Barūn Faito GB) was released in Japan on July 31, 2000.
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. 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 inflate two new balloons and fly again.
