Balloon Monster is a puzzle game for the NES/Famicom and released by NTDEC in 1991 under their Mega Soft Games brand.
Plot[]
The plot as explained from the original box:
"THE LEADER OF THE DARK SIDE-SADAN, IT TAKES HIM LOTS OF TROUBLE TO TERRORIZE THE WORLD BUT ALL DISSOLVED BY THE MESSANGER SENT FROM GOD.
THIS TIME, SADAN USE BALLOON-THE CHILDRENS' FAVORITE TO GET TO HIS PURPOSE,HE SENT DEVIL BALLOON TAKING AWAY CHILDREN EVERYWHERE, SO THE WORLD IS FULL OF PANIC AND HORROR AND PEOPLE DON'T TRUST EACH OTHER EITHER.
IN ORDER TO SOLVE ALL THE PROBLEMS BETWEEN HUMAN BEINGS, THIS TIME GOD WISH HUMAN BEING TAKING CARE THESE PROBLEMS THEMSELVES SO HE SEND ONLY ANGEL IN THE MUNDANE WORLD AND LEAVE THE HOLY GUN-LETHAL WEAPON TO DEVIL BALLOON.
WHEN SADAN SMILE WILDLY IN THE DARK THE BRAVE HUMAN BEINGS CARRYING THE HOLY GUN INTO THE WORLD OF DEVIL BALLOON AND EXTINGUISH THE DEVIL BALLOON, BUT KEEP ONE THING IN MIND:TO WIN WITH THE WISDOM NOT THE PHYSICAL STRENGTH."
Overview[]
The game is a simplistic clone of Pang/Buster Bros. The unnamed human protagonist has to use the "Holy Gun" to shoot large bubbles known as "Devil Balloons" that spawns above him and bounce on the ground. If hit, the devil balloon will burst into smaller devil balloons which will act similarly and also have to be shot down until no more bubbles are on the playfield. The player must accomplish time before the bubbles stop bouncing at a fair height, as unlike Pang, the bubbles start to bounce lower and lower until they are moving at the floor, making it impossible to destroy them. If the bubbles hit you midair or on the ground, you fly up from the screen (possibly the way devil balloons are meant to take people) and lose a life. The game advertises itself to have 50 stages, when the game actually only has a total of 10. Which are repeated with a different background.
Trivia[]
- Both releases of the game on the Asder 20-in-1 and Asder PC-95 (and pirated releases of it's version) feature a "finished" version of the game's soundtrack
- A documented invoice (refer to the gallery below) indicates that the game was commercially available, or at least orderable, by mid December 1990.
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