Balloon Gun
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Balloon Gun | |||||||||
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System(s): Discrete logic arcade | |||||||||
Publisher: Sega Enterprises, Ltd. | |||||||||
Developer: Sega Enterprises, Ltd. | |||||||||
Genre: Shoot-'em-Up | |||||||||
Number of players: 2 | |||||||||
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Balloon Gun (バルーンガン) is a discrete logic arcade video game manufactured by Sega Enterprises, Ltd. and released in August 1974. It was a first-person light-gun shooter, with twin guns for two-player co-op gameplay.
In 1975, Sega released Bullet Mark, a similar game where the players use Tommy guns to hit a variety of moving targets displayed on the monitor.
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Gameplay
The game is a 1 or 2-player game and perfect score is 60. As the game starts, the balloons appear in a slow pattern, allowing ample time for careful aim; as the game proceeds, the balloons are released at a faster rate making scoring more difficult. With each balloon that is burst by a pistol shot as it appears in the target area, a score of 1 point is recorded. Each player is given 60 shots and the game ends when that number has been fired.
In a 2-player game, the first one to use all 60 shots terminates the game for both players and the one with the highest score is the winner.
Magazine articles
- Main article: Balloon Gun/Magazine articles.