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Pioneer Balloon

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Pioneer Balloon

Pioneer Balloon was an odd, though enjoyable, game in which the player piloted a hot-air balloon over a southwest landscape while dropping bombs on wagon trains and Native American villages before landing in a fort. The weird part came via the games many anachronistic (or downright bizarre) elements. The “Native Americans” lived in huts and hurled boomerangs (in the Wild West?). An even stranger enemy was a series of killer waterspouts (in the Wild West??). Strangest of all was a stage involving a series of islands populated by hopping-mad giant, yellow apes (in the Wild West???).

Year
1982
Developer
Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corporation
Publisher
Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corporation
Players
2P
Orientation
Vertical

SCREENSHOTS

1CC RUNS

One-credit clears we point to as the benchmark for this game.

GAMEPLAY VIDEO

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System
Platform
Year
Notes
ARC
Arcade
1982
Original release

GAME DATA

Orientation
Vertical
Players
2
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