Pioneer Balloon
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Description
Guide a balloon across a variety of frontiers dropping bombs on your enemies. Dodge arrows shot from a covered wagon, boomerangs thrown by natives, coconuts hurled by gorillas, geyser sprays, cannonballs and deadly birds. Finally, navigate the balloon over mountains and make a precise landing at Fort Freedom.
Pioneer Balloon was produced by Rock-Ola Mfg. Corp. in 1982.
Rock-Ola Mfg. Corp. released 259 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1928. Rock-Ola Mfg. Corp. was based in United States.
Other machines made by Rock-Ola Mfg. Corp. during the time period Pioneer Balloon was produced include: Warp Warp, Jump Bug, Fantasy, 480 techna jukebox, 464, Demon, Eyes, Mermaid, QB-3, and Survival
Specs
| Name | Pioneer Balloon |
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| Developer | Rock-Ola Mfg. Corp. (United States) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Type | Videogame |
| KLOV/MOG # | 9023 |
| Class | Wide Release |
| Genre | Platform |
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| Conversion Class | unique |
| Game Specific | Pioneer Balloon Pinout |
| Dipswitch Settings | |
| # Simultaneous Players | 1 |
| # Maximum Players | 2 |
| Game Play | Alternating |
| Control Panel Layout | Single Player |
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| Sound | Amplified Mono (one channel) |
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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Pioneer Balloon Census
There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).
Scarce - There are 4 known instances of this machine owned by Pioneer Balloon collectors who are active members. Of these, One is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 3 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.
Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Pioneer Balloon. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Pioneer Balloon circuit board set.
This game ranks a 1 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.
This game ranks a 3 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
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Flyers
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