Kick

Kick, also known as Kick Man, is an arcade game released by Bally Midway in 1981. The game features cameos from Pac-Man and the Ghosts.
== Gameplay ==
The player controls a clown on a unicycle, and must pop all of the falling balloons with his pointy hat. If the player is about to miss hitting the balloon, it can be kicked into the air, allowing the player to try to pop it again. In later levels, the balloons form a giant stack on the clown's head, and are only popped once the stack reaches a count of 8. Each balloon missed results in a lost life.
In later levels, Pac-Mans, Pinkys, Inkys, and Clydes will appear mixed in with the balloons. If a Pac-Man is dropped onto a stack of balloons, he will eat them all, and will stay on the clown's head until the end of the level (or until the clown loses a life). The ghosts seem to have no special function other than being a higher point count than the balloons.
== Home Ports ==
*Atari 2600
**Canceled port developed by Midway themselves, which was going to be published by CBS. A prototype has been found and dumped.
*Commodore 64
*Commodore MAX
**Seemingly only released in Japan.
== Trivia ==
*It is stated that Pac-Man's appearance in the game was a last-minute addition, which was suggested by Midway's co-founder Hank Ross."Not even Hank Ross’ eleventh hour addition of a balloon-gobbling Pac-Man could pull Kick-Man through." http://vgpavilion.com/mags/1982/12/vg/the-house-that-pac-built/
*Unlike Midway's other Pac-Man arcade titles, Kick has never been acknowledged by Namco in any way, shape or form.
== References ==
Category:Games
Category:Arcade Games
Category:Bally/Midway Games