Rank

In several Balloon Fight games, the player's scores are tracked on a leaderboard and ranked. In some games, it will even display the player's current rank during the game. This feature was standard among arcade games, where players were encouraged to try to reach a high score so they could place their name or initials on that machine's leaderboard. This is exactly how this system was implemented in Vs. Balloon Fight. However, for the NES version of the game, there is no longer a visible leaderboard screen, and for Game A and B only the highest score is recorded and displayed. However, in Balloon Trip mode, the player is shown a single number for their current rank, from 1 through 49. Scores for Balloon Trip are actually stored internally on a leaderboard with 50 places, but there is no way to view the lower 49 scores. This same system is carried over into the Balloon Trip modes of Balloon Kid, Balloon Fight GB, and Tingle's Balloon Fight DS.
== Default Scores ==
=== Vs. Balloon Fight ===
Rank	Score 	Name
1st 	068000	A.G
2nd 	047100	NAK
3rd 	029000	Y
4th 	018000	ABC
5th 	007000	SOG
The second place score with the initials NAK may be referring to Toshihiko Nakago, the programmer of Vs. Balloon Fight. It was a common practice for arcade game developers to include their own initials in the default scoreboards as they would often go uncredited otherwise.
=== Balloon Fight, Balloon Kid, Tingle's Balloon Fight DS ===
The default scores, although not shown, are initially set to increments of 500 points. The default high score is 25,000, the second highest is 24,500, and so on. Although the player's score starts at 0, a programming error causes the player's rank to start at 47.
Category:Game Mechanics