Funny World & Balloon Boy

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Funny World & Balloon Boy
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Realtec
Developer: AV artisan
Game total: 2
Genre: Compilation
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code US 1993 TW 1993

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Funny World & Balloon Boy is an unlicensed Sega Mega Drive game compilation developed by AV artisan and published by Realtec. Released in the United States and Taiwan in 1993, it is most known for being one of few unlicensed Mega Drive games to be primarily released in the United States, and for its notably garish cover artwork.

Games included

	Funny World
	A shooting gallery game similar to Cabal. and move the gun and shoots. There are some targets to avoid, such as humans.
	Balloon Boy
	A single-screen action game. and move around, shoots (you can only shoot straight up), and jumps. The goal of each level is to shoot at balloons, collecting goodies that come out of some of them but avoiding traps that come out of some others.

History

Development

This is the only Realtec game which makes use of the mapper functionality of their special mapper; each game occupies one mapper bank. All other Realtec games (as well as this one) would otherwise use the mapper for copy protection.

Magazine articles

Main article: Funny World & Balloon Boy/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source

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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 30 VideoGames (US) NTSC-U 40

	35
Based on 2 reviews

Funny World & Balloon Boy

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, TW
Cover
Cart

Multi-cart appearances

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Technical information

Main article: Funny World & Balloon Boy/Technical information.

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 a82f05f0 MD5 5adb68ad7e42b62690d084a9e71629a4 SHA-1 17481c8327433bfce8f7bae493fc044194e400a4	512kB	1993-03-11	Cartridge (US)