Hot Air Bloon

For the lesser known mobile variant, see: Hot Air Bloon (Mobile)"Play Ninja Kiwi's new Hot Air Bloon game! Pop as many bloons as you can without crashing. Try to beat your personal best or set a new high score."

- Offical Ninja Kiwi Description Hot Air Bloon is an online flash game released by Ninja Kiwi in November 2008 that is currently available on the Flash Archive. It is a horizontal scroller where the player is tasked with navigating a monkey hanging from a damaged blimp through an ever-accelerating series of obstacles while popping as many bloons as possible.

Gameplay
The gameplay of Hot Air Bloon is simple. Pop as many bloons while surviving as long as possible. Like the classic Helicopter Game, players click and hold the mouse to rise and let go to float down. Despite there being multiple colors of bloons, each bloon popped will offer one point. The Blimp will automatically move rightward. One point is added to the score for every bloon popped and the speed of the blimp will increase over time (up to a maximum speed). Upon hitting any one of the following four obstacles, Game Over will occur and the score will be displayed.


 * Roof - The height limit
 * Cloud - Sticks down from the ceiling
 * Tree - Protrudes from the ground
 * Crow - Travels horizontally from spawn height of player location.

Strategy
Compared to other bloons games, there is little strategy involved other than increasing one's own skill level and reflex time. However, using shorter click-intervals will allow for more micro-adjustments to be made and prevent over elevating the Blimp into an obstacle.

Additional Information
Due to the discontinuation of flash, and relatively small following of the game, there is little additional information about Hot Air Bloon. Many of the links on the menu screen to other games and high scores are defunct. However, it is rumored that the high score for the game was over 2000.

There was also a mobile version developed by Digital Goldfish with a significantly expanded storyline, map selection, enemy roster, and more. It has since been taken down from the app store due to incompatibility with newer operating systems and devices. Click here to learn more.

Trivia

 * The ship shown is not an actual Hot Air Balloon, but rather a blimp similar to a M.O.A.B.
 * In this way, the Hot Air Bloon may be considered an early iteration of the MOAB class bloon.
 * Though the Bloons series often pits monkeys against bloons, this is an early instance of Monkeys using bloons to pop other bloons. Other instances include the Bomb Bloon, Tack Bloon, Pac-Man Bloon, and the Unpopped Army.
 * The tutorial blimp has a score of 1024, that does not increase upon popping bloons.
 * The bloons in the game are from the original Bloons.
 * You are flying what appears to resemble a M.O.A.B., despite the main menu showing you riding what resembles a B.F.B.
 * The monkey on the blimp appears in Bloons Monkey City Mobile as Blimp Monkey.