Balloon Kid
| Balloon Kid | |
|---|---|
North American cover art | |
| Developer | Nintendo R&D1 |
| Publishers | Nintendo Character Soft (Hello Kitty World) |
| Director | Yoshio Sakamoto |
| Producer | Gunpei Yokoi |
| Programmers | Takayuki Onodera Hideo Suzuki Motoo Yasuma |
| Composer | Hirokazu Tanaka |
| Series | Balloon Fight |
| Platforms | Game Boy, Family Computer, Game Boy Color |
| Release | Balloon Kid
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| Genre | Platformer |
| Modes | Single-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.