Login | Register
King & Balloon cover art

Game dossier

King & Balloon

Available now

Namco’s 1980 fixed arcade shooter featuring an early speech-synthesis system

The briefing

About this game

King & Balloon is a fixed shooter developed and published by Namco. Running on Namco Galaxian hardware with Z80-based technology, the game is notable for its early use of speech synthesis.

The King calls out “HELP!” when captured, “THANK YOU” when rescued, and “BYE BYE!” when carried away. Its balloons and cannon also use sounds associated with Galaxian.

Game Details

  • Genre: Shooter; Shooter / Gallery
  • Developer: Namco
  • Publisher: Namco
  • Platforms: Arcade, Final Burn Alpha Neo, HB MAME, Microsoft MSX, MSX