Balloon Kid

Balloon Kid
North American cover art
DeveloperNintendo R&D1
PublishersNintendo
Character Soft (Hello Kitty World)
DirectorYoshio Sakamoto
ProducerGunpei Yokoi
ProgrammersTakayuki Onodera
Hideo Suzuki
Motoo Yasuma
ComposerHirokazu Tanaka
SeriesBalloon Fight
PlatformsGame Boy, Family Computer, Game Boy Color
ReleaseBalloon Kid
  • NA: October 1990
  • EU: January 31, 1991
Hello Kitty World
  • JP: March 27, 1992
Balloon Fight GB
  • JP: July 31, 2000
GenrePlatformer
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer

Balloon Kid is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. It was released in October 1990 in North America and in January 1991 in Europe. It is the sequel to Balloon Fight. It was never released in Japan for the original Game Boy, but 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 Color 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.