Balloon Fight Fan Games

This article features a list of games that were inspired by the Balloon Fight franchise, created by fans.
== Balloon Duel ==
Balloon Duel was released in 2004 on Newgrounds.com by John Su, aka Mousekliks. Over the years it gained over 1.8 million views, and was featured several times by Newgrounds staff the year it was released.
The game is focused around 1 on 1 fights against CPU players, which you can choose the difficulty of. The game features 18 different accessories which give the player different powers that can be used in battle. By defeating opponents in the arena you win money, which can be spent on a large array of character customizations. By beating enemies above your rank, you also increase your rank, which allows you to unlock new game modes (which also earn money). The first game mode is a recreation of Balloon Trip, and the second is an original mode called Soldier Training, where you face a never ending stream of Balloon Birds, which get increasingly harder. 
The games graphics are completely original and drawn in flash, but the game uses a few sound effects from the original Balloon Fight. The game does not contain any music - it originally featured a method to load your own custom music from your hard drive, but this feature eventually broke due to security updates, and was never fixed. 
The game received 6 updates over it's lifetime, mostly containing bugfixes. The game originally had platforms, but they were eventually removed as the CPUs had trouble navigating around them.
The game was created using Flash, which was deprecated in 2020, but the game remains playable with the Ruffle Flash emulator, which is now built into Newgrounds. 
Source: Newgrounds.com
== Balloon Fight Arena ==
Balloon Fight Arena was created in 2024 by skeddles. It is a 4-player fighting game where you play against CPU or human opponents to be the last man standing. It features a selection of characters from the Balloon Fight series including Balloon Fighter, Balloon Birds, Tingle, Alice and Samm, and others inspired by romhacks. It also features a selection of different arenas with unique layouts. 
The game uses graphics from the original Balloon Fight, as well as some custom graphics in the same style, and some conversions of tiles from Balloon Kid.
The game was created in Godot 4.2, and it's source is available on github. It has received 3 updates since it's creation, adding new characters, abilities and stages.
Source: Itch.io, Newgrounds.com
== Skybound ==
Skybound was made in 2019 by 5pike. The player plays against either a CPU or another player, and the goal is defeat your opponent (by popping their 2 balloons) enough times to reach the goal (default 10), or have defeated them more times when the timer runs out. Both players appearance can be customized before each battle. The arena has two clouds, one of which shoots lightning, and the other which has rain that pushes the player down, similar to Balloon Kid.
The game uses original pixel art graphics, and the music is a remixed version of the Balloon Trip music.
Source: Newgrounds.com