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BALLOON FIGHTER
The nameless man who flies with only balloons strapped to his back first appeared in the arcades back in 1984 but really got his recognition on the NES remake in 1985. Many people compare it to the Williams Electronics' game, "Joust" but Joust never got as many games or cameo references as the Balloon Fight series. There was also a Balloon Fight game for the Game & Watch system. Balloon Fight for the NES was so successful that it got a sequel for the GameBoy called "Balloon Kid" even though it starred a young girl named Alice (Japan didn't get this game until it was released for the GameBoy Color but before that it did come to Japan on the Famicom where the characters were replaced with Hello Kitty characters.) Then many years later, a Japan only Club Nintendo game for the DS came out; It was a remake of the classic Balloon Fight game but the Balloon Fighter was only in the game's opening and was replaced with the Zelda character Tingle (if you want Tingle in the next Smash Bros., then you're looking in the wrong topic).
The Balloon Fight series has made a handful of cameo appearances in the Super Smash Bros. series. In Super Smash Bros. Melee, there was a Balloon Fight trophy, the original theme played in the Ice Climber stage "Icicle Mountain," and the Flipper appeared as an item in the game. In fact, game director Masahiro Sakurai once considered putting Balloon Fighter in the game as a playable character but couldn't get a working moveset for him so he went with the Ice Climbers instead.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl didn't have a playable Balloon Fighter either but there were still plenty of Balloon Fight cameos. A remix of the Balloon Trip was in the game, there were two stickers from Balloon Fight for the NES, and in the Ice Climber stage, "Summit," the evil fish from the games appears and eats anyone who's near or in the water for too long.
And now, the Balloon Fighter needs to playable in the next Super Smash Bros.
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