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King & Balloon. 1980. 1980s. Arcade. MSX. Namco. shoot 'em up
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King & Balloon

1980 · Namco

King & Balloon is a 1980 fixed shooter video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. It was released in Japan in October 1980 and in North America by Game Plan in October 1981. It runs upon the Namco Galaxian hardware, based on the Zilog Z80 microprocessor, with an extra microprocessor to drive a DAC for speech; it was one of the first games to have speech synthesis. An MSX port was released in Japan in 1984. Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

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