King & Balloon
| King & Balloon | |
|---|---|
Japanese instruction card | |
| Developer(s) | Namco |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Designer(s) | Shigeru Yokoyama Kazunori Sawano Shigeichi Ishimura |
| Composer(s) | Nobuyuki Ohnogi |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, MSX, Mobile phone |
| Release | ArcadeMSX
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| Genre(s) | Fixed shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer (alternating turns) |
| Arcade system | Namco Galaxian |
King & Balloon is a fixed shooter arcade video game released by Namco in 1980 and 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.