And Here’s Your Balloon Boy Video Game
By Benjamin Opal
At a time when the Intertubes flow with cheap browser-based video games, it’s no surprise that the Balloon Boy saga became fertile ground a quick time-waster. Balloon Boy Game, as it is simply called, is terrible. The idea is to dodge a variety of objects that bounce aimlessly across the screen, starting with birds, then moving on to helicopters, then actual aliens, and finally a combination of all three in the attic where Balloon Boy saw supposedly hiding all along. As a game, it’s marred by the arguably the worst collision detection I’ve ever seen. Anything that flies within a hundred pixels of your avatar, which looks more like Roseanne Barr in the early 90s than 6-year old Falcon Heene, is likely to subtract one of your precious lives. But like Balloon Boy’s story itself, it’s good for a chuckle even if it’s worthless on substance. [Balloon Boy Game via GamePolitics]
