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.

How to play

• 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.

Requirement

• min. A500 (512Kb ram only)

Features

• 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.

Control

• 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

Cheat menu

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

Credits

• Transcoding:  JoeJoe
• GFX/SFX:  JoeJoe
• Music:  JoeJoe
• Pretranslation: z80268k.py by jotd (Thx)
• Original:  namco

ToDo:

• Title music
• Joystick support