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KingAndBalloon500 by RMJ & JoeJoe

2 mins
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This is a 1:1 arcade port of the game King&Balloon by namco from 1980 for the Amiga 500. The game is written in 68k assembler, based on the original Z80 code.

  • The player battles with attacking colored balloons, protecting his king wile destroying as many balloons as he can.
  • The player can move the kings guard left and right with 2 way layer.
  • The palyer ca fire on missle at a time. He cannot fire again while his last missle ist still on the screen
  • The player missle stays visible on the screen unti
  1. It hits a balloon
  2. It disappears off the top of the screen
  • The attacking ballons descend in an irregular pattern whils dropping bombs. The mission of the balloons is to drop the defender and pck-up the king and carry the king off.

  • Each round is complett when all 42 balloons have been destroyed.

  • The number of remaining kings is displayed in the lower left hand on the screen.

  • The score for destroying an attacking balloon invreases as the balloon, gets closer to the defender-and higher yet, if the balloon is carrying off the king.

  • min. A500 (512Kb ram only)

  • Original artwork and SFX

  • Original gameplay including bugs

  • Trainer included (Highscore is disabled when in use)

  • Player controls crossbowman who can be moved from left to right to attack balloons.

  • Balloons attack in squadrons of 42 balloons.

  • Knock out the squadron and a faster moving one appears.

  • Audio and video coincide when king yells “help”. it appears on the monitor.

  • Key: 5/Space to add one credit

  • Key: 1/2 for one or two player

  • Key: Cursor to control the guards

  • Key: Space fire

  • Joystick on port 2

To activate the cheat menu you simply have to hold down the keys “RMJ”  in the info screen, nothing more.

  • Transcoding:  JoeJoe

  • GFX/SFX:  JoeJoe

  • Music:  JoeJoe

  • Pretranslation: z80268k.py by jotd (Thx)

  • Original:  namco

  • Title music

  • Joystick support

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