King & Balloon

King & Balloon
North American arcade flyer
DeveloperNamco
Publishers
DesignersShigeru Yokoyama
Kazunori Sawano
Shigeichi Ishimura
ComposerNobuyuki Ohnogi
PlatformsArcade, MSX, Mobile phone
ReleaseArcade
  • JP: October 31, 1980
  • NA: November 1981
MSX
  • JP: February 28, 1984
GenreFixed shooter
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer
Arcade systemNamco Galaxian

King & Balloon is a 1980 fixed shooter video game developed and published by Namco for Japanese arcades; it was licensed to Game Plan for U.S. manufacture and distribution. It runs upon the Namco Galaxian hardware, based on the Z80 microprocessor, with an extra Zilog Z80 microprocessor to drive a DAC for speech; it was one of the first games to have speech synthesis. An MSX port was released in Japan in 1984.


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