Balloon Blitz

Patrol the fields in a hot air balloon and bomb the enemy tank that drives along the ground below. You have twenty bombs, with one in the air at a time, and each falls for about seven tenths of a second, so you have to lead the tank. After every bomb the tank changes speed, and sometimes direction, and patrols a new stretch of the field, and the wind changes and drifts your balloon. A destroyed tank is replaced by a new one somewhere else. The level, from 1 to 6, sets how fast the tank can go. When the twenty bombs are gone your hits give your rank, from PRIVATE up through CORPORAL, SERGEANT, CAPTAIN and MAJOR to GENERAL. The best hits of the session are kept.

Controls: Use either controller. Push left and right to steer, up and down to set the balloon's speed, and press a button to drop a bomb. On the title, up and down choose, left and right set the level, and a button starts.

ColecoVision version credited in the source to Claude (an AI made by Anthropic) for Amy Studio, in Amy, the language by Amy Bienvenu, 2026: a reimagined adaptation of the published rules. From COMPUTE!'s Gazette, August 1984: original Commodore 64 program by Michael T. Bohn. This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.