Select Game 304: The Balloon's Going Up

Channel:
United States theLogBook
Subscribers:
268
Published on ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6qQIOu2Gdk


Game:
Loony Balloon (1983)
Duration: 53:38
129 views
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Some podcasts should be heard and not seen, but now Select Game offers you the chance to do both! In this edition, we play P.T. Barnum's Acrobats! and the Videopac-only Loony Balloon, we ask why the Jopac had to have square balloons in the former, and we trace both games to their arcade roots, complete with hilarious early voice synthesis...and balloons. So. many. balloons.

Select Game ( http://www.thelogbook.com/selectgame/ ) is the only podcast on the entire internet with sync-sound action! Select Game traces the story of the Magnavox Odyssey2 video game console (and its European siblings, the Videopac and Jopac), a game at a time. Check out the previous audio-only episodes on iTunes or Stitcher.

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The theme music is by Teleidofusion under CC 3.0 share-alike attribution US license, via Free Music Archive ( http://www.freemusicarchive.org ).



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Tags:
odyssey2
magnavox odyssey
videopac
jopac
select game
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phosphor dot fossils
earl green
p.t. barnum's acrobats
pt barnum's acrobats
loony balloon
crazy balloon
exidy
1983
1982
retrogaming


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Loony Balloon Statistics For theLogBook

At present, theLogBook has 129 views spread across 1 video for Loony Balloon, and less than an hour worth of Loony Balloon videos were uploaded to his channel. This makes up less than 0.43% of the total overall content on theLogBook's YouTube channel.