Balloon (platform)

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Balloon
A sprite of the Balloons from Yoshi's Island.
Sprite from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
First appearance Donkey Kong Land (1995)
Latest appearance Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World (2017)

Balloons,[1][2] also described as rising balloons[3] or happy balloons,[4] appear in the Super Mario franchise as platforms that can be stood on.

History

Donkey Kong Land

Balloons in Donkey Kong Land appear in Construction Site Fight only, where they rise up and down, inflating and deflating in the process.

Yoshi's Island series

Balloons in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and its reissue have smiling faces and appear in a variety of colors. They appear in Don't Look Back! and a bonus area in Beware The Spinning Logs, and they continuously rise from the bottom of the screen. Stepping on one of them causes it to stop its natural rising, and using them too long results in their disappearance. They reappear with the same function in Yoshi's Island DS in the levels Windblown Wilderness and Superhard Acrobatics! and in Yoshi's New Island.

Super Princess Peach

Balloons in Super Princess Peach already appear in red, and they gain magenta cheek blushes with short strings hanging. They appear in Giddy Sky and remain still. If Peach stands on them, they go down slowly. If she jumps off one, it makes a short rise. After being stood on the first time, a balloon blinks after a few moments and then vanishes, reappearing in its original spot after a few more seconds. To make use of balloons, she has to jump repeatedly to reach new heights before they vanish.

Yoshi's Woolly World

Balloons in Yoshi's Woolly World function identically as in the Yoshi's Island games. Balloons can be popped by Bullet Bills and Bull's-Eye Bills or from touching the ceiling.

Gallery

  • Screenshot from Donkey Kong Land

    Screenshot from Donkey Kong Land

  • Screenshot from Super Princess Peach

    Screenshot from Super Princess Peach

  • Screenshot from Yoshi's New Island

    Screenshot from Yoshi's New Island

  • Screenshot from Yoshi's Woolly World

    Screenshot from Yoshi's Woolly World

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
Japanese 風船ふうせん[5][6]
Fūsen
 Balloon

References

  1. ^ Donkey Kong Land, Nintendo Magazine System (UK) WORLD EXCLUSIVE Review booklet. Page 18.
  2. ^ Williams, Drew (November 6, 2006). Yoshi's Island DS Player's Guide. Nintendo of America (American English). ISBN 1-59812-016-6. Page 40 and 129.
  3. ^ "Stage 4-3 is a one-way trip across rising balloons and exploding platforms." – Miller, Kent and Terry Munson (1995). Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island Player's Guide. Redmond, WA: Nintendo of America (American English). Page 74.
  4. ^ "Hop onto one of the happy balloons for a slow ascent to the platforms above the starting point." – Williams, Drew (2002). Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 Player's Guide. Nintendo of America (American English). ISBN 1-930206-25-9. Page 72.
  5. ^ 「任天堂公式ガイドブック　スーパーマリオアドバンス3」 (Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook - Super Mario Advance 3). Shogakukan (Japanese). Page 102.
  6. ^ 「任天堂公式ガイドブック　スーパー プリンセスピーチ」 (Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook - Super Princess Peach). Shogakukan (Japanese). Page 107.
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Donkey Kong Land
Playable characters Diddy Kong • Donkey Kong
Items and objects Banana • Banana Bunch • Barrel • Blast Barrel • Buddy Barrel • Continue Point • End of stage • KONG Letters • Kong Token • Steel keg • Life Balloon • TNT Barrel
Animal Friends Expresso • Rambi
Bosses Wild Sting • Giant Clam • Hard Hat • King K. Rool
Enemies Army • Basket of snakes • Chomps • Clambo • Fangfish • Flapper • Gloop • Gnawty • Hogwash the Flying Pig • Klaptrap • Kritter • Krusha • Mincer • Mini-Necky • Necky • Nemo • Slippa • Swirlwind • Zinger
Levels Gangplank Galleon Ahoy! Jungle Jaunt • Freezing Fun • Simian Swing • Deck Trek • Rope Ravine • Tire Trail • Riggin' Rumble • Congo Carnage • Arctic Barrel Arsenal • Wild Sting Fling
Kremlantis Tricky Temple • Kremlantis Kaos • Reef Rampage • Snake Charmer's Challenge • Chomp's Coliseum • Nautilus Chase • Swirlwind Storm • Seabed Showdown
Monkey Mountains & Chimpanzee Clouds Pot Hole Panic • Mountain Mayhem • Track Attack • Spiky Tire Trail • Sky High Caper • Landslide Leap • Collapsing Clouds • Mad Mole Holes
Big Ape City Construction Site Fight • Kong Krazy • Balloon Barrage • Fast Barrel Blast • Skyscraper Caper • Button Barrel Blast • Oil Drum Slum • K. Rool's Kingdom
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Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island / Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3
Characters Yoshis • Baby Mario • Baby Luigi • Baby Bowser • Kamek • Stork • Poochy • Huffin Puffin • Liquid lift • Melon Bug • Muddy Buddy • Support Ghost
Worlds Welcome To Yoshi's Island • World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6
Items Regular items Blue watermelon • Coin • Green Shell • Green watermelon • Key • Red coin • Red Shell • Red watermelon • Special Flower • Star • Super Star • Yoshi's egg (Flashing Egg · Giant Egg · Red Egg · Yellow Egg)
Special Items 10-Point Star • 20-Point Star • Anytime Egg • Anywhere POW • Magnifying Glass • Super Blue Watermelon • Super Green Watermelon • Super Red Watermelon • Winged Cloud Maker
Objects ! Block • Arrow block • Arrow Cloud • Balloon (Mini Battle) • Balloon (platform) • Beanstalk • Breakable block • Bubble • Bucket • Chomp Rock • Coin Block • Countdown Platform • Cracked block • Current • Donut Lift • Dotted-Line Block • Egg Block • Egg Plant • Expansion Block • Falling stone block • Flatbed Ferry • Flipper • Goal Ring • Ice Block • Icicle • Makeshift surfboard • Message Block • Middle Ring • Morph bubble • Moving block • Paddle wheel • Pinwheel • Post • Pot • POW Block • Red-and-yellow bridge • Red balloon • Rolling rock • Ski Lift • Snowball • Soft rock • Spinning Log • Spinning wheel • Spotted platform • Spring ball • Squishy block • Switch • Teeter-totter • Tulip • Tumbler • Warp Pipe • Winged Cloud • Yoshi Block
Bosses Burt the Bashful • Salvo the Slime • Bigger Boo • Roger the Potted Ghost • Froggy • Naval Piranha • Marching Milde • Hookbill the Koopa • Sluggy the Unshaven • Raphael the Raven • Tap-Tap the Red Nose • Baby Bowser • Big Baby Bowser
Enemy classes Edibilis Boringus • Harrassimentia Phlyoverus • Projectilia Ritebakatchia • Ucantia Defeatus • Dudim Phreykunoutonthis • Mostosti Vomitonus
Enemies Aqua Lakitu • Bandit • Baron von Zeppelin • Barney Bubble • Beach Koopa • Big Boo • Blow Hard • Boo Balloon • Boo Blah • Boo • Boo Guy • Boo Man Bluff • Bouncing Bullet Bill • Bowling Goonie • Bubble Dayzee • Bullet Bill • Bumpty • Burt • Cactus Jack • Caged Ghost • Chain Chomp • Clawdaddy • Cloud Drop • Coin Bandit • Crazee Dayzee • Dancing Spear Guy • Dangling Ghost • Dizzy Dandy • Dr. Freezegood • Eggo-Dil • Fang • Fat Guy • Fishing Lakitu • Flamer Guy • Flightless Goonie • Flightless Skeleton Goonie • Flopsy Fish • Fly Guy • Flying Wiggler • Frog Pirate • Fuzzy • Gargantua Blargg • Georgette Jelly • Goomba • Goonie • Green Glove • Green Toady • Grim Leecher • Grinder • Grunt • Gusty • Harry Hedgehog • Hefty Goonie • Hootie the Blue Fish • Hot Lips • Incoming Chomp • Itsunomanika Heihō • Jean de Fillet • Kaboomba • Kamek • Kamek's Toadies • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Lantern Ghost • Lava Bubble • Lava Drop • Little Mouser • Little Skull Mouser • Loch Nestor • Lunge Fish • Mace Guy • Mace Penguin • Milde • Missile Billa • Mock Up • Mufti Guy • Needle • Nep-Enut • Nipper Plant • Nipper Spore • Para-Koopa • Piro Dangle • Piscatory Pete • Pokey • Preying Mantas • Puchipuchi L • Raven • Raven (chick) • Red Blargg • Relay Heihō • Sanbo Flower • Shark Chomp • Shy-Guy • Shy-Guy on Stilts • Skeleton Goonie • Slime • Slime Drop • Slugger • Sluggy • Snifit • Solo Toady • Spear Guy • Spiked Fun Guy • Spooky • Spray Fish • Stretch • Tap-Tap • Tap-Tap the Golden • Thunder Lakitu • Train Bandit • Wall Lakitu • Whirly Fly Guy • Wild Piranha • Wild Ptooie Piranha • Woozy Guy • Zeus Guy
Obstacles Ball 'N' Chain • Ball and chain • Cannonball • Fire-Bar • Lava • Spike • Spiked ball • Spiked weight • Thorn • Turtle Cannon
Mini Battles Gather Coins • Popping Balloons • Throwing Balloons • Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest
Bonus Challenges Flip Cards • Scratch and Match • Drawing Lots • Match Cards • Roulette • Slot Machine
Miscellaneous Countdown Timer • Yoshi's Island
Further info Gallery (SNES · GBA) • Glitches • Mario Bros.a • Media • Pre-release and unused content • Staff (SNES · GBA) • Super Mario: Yossy Island Original Sound Version
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Super Princess Peach
Characters Princess Peach • Perry • Mario • Luigi • Toad • Toadsworth
Peach's vibes Joy • Rage • Gloom • Calm
Perry's forms Bowlbrella • Chargebrella • Dashbrella • Floatbrella • Poundbrella • Slidebrella • Subrella
Bosses Petey Piranha • Hoo • King Boo • Wiggler • Gooper Blooper • Blizzaurus • Giant Kamek • Army Hammer Bro • Bowser
Worlds Ladida Plains • Hoo's Wood • Shriek Mansion • Fury Volcano • Wavy Beach • Gleam Glacier • Giddy Sky • Bowser's Villa
Enemies Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother (Calm) • Banzai Bill (Mad) • Big Boo (Mad) • Big Chain Chomp • Blindfold Boo • Blooper (Glad) • Blurp (Mad) • Bob-omb (Glad) • Boo (Mad) • Bullet Bill (Mad) • Cannon (Calm) • Chain Chomp (Calm) • Cheep Cheep (Sad) • Dry Bones (Sad) • Fang (Glad) (Mini-Fang Swarm) • Firewheel • Fishing Boo (Calm) • Flameface • Goomba (Mad · Sad) • Goombette • Green Koopa (Mad) • Hammer Bro (Calm) • Hoolet • Hothead • Kamek • Lakitu (Calm) • Lil' Sparky • Mecha-Spike Top (Mad) • Nipper Plant (Sad) • Parabomb (Glad) • Paragoomba (Sad) • Paratroopa (Mad) • Piranha Plant (Glad) • Podoboo • Pokey (Mad) • Ptooie (Glad) • Raven (Sad) • Red Koopa (Glad) • Red Paragoomba (Mad) • Red Paratroopa (Glad) • Rex (Sad) • Rockethand • Sandslab • Security Thwomp • Spike (Mad) • Spiny (Sad) • Smogball • Starfish • Thump • Thwomp • Torpedo tube • Torpedo Ted (Glad) • Unshelled Koopa • Urchin • Volcano Plant (Calm) • Walruss • Weighdown
Items Coin • Courage Soda • Crystal • Endless Vibe • Five Coin • Music score • Natural Power • Puzzle Piece • Tough Coffee • Vibe Tea
Objects ! Block • ! Cloud • ! Switch • Balloon • Bowser Statue • Donut Block • Flamethrower • Flatbed Ferry • Goal gate • Heart Panel • Hot air balloon • Icicle • Koopa Shellceiver • Lakitu's Cloud • Lava Geyser • Message Block • Party Ball • Peach statue • Quicksand • Rotating Block • Spike Trap • Torpedo tube • Warp Pipe
Moves Bowlbrella • Chargebrella • Dashbrella • Floatbrella • Poundbrella • Slide Kick • Slidebrella • Subrella • Vibe (Calm, Gloom, Joy, Rage)
Minigames Toad Jump • Toad Shot • Toad Tote
Miscellaneous Media • Parasol Fall • Peach Hit Five • Pre-release and unused content • Staff
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Yoshi's Island DS
Characters Yoshis • Star children (Baby Mario · Baby Luigi · Baby Peach · Baby DK · Baby Wario · Baby Bowser · Baby Yoshi) • Kamek • Kamek's Toadies • Kangaroo • Stork
Worlds World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5
Items Character coin • Coin • Flower • Giant Egg • Key • Red coin • Star • Super Star • Yoshi's Egg
Objects Arrow block • Arrow wheel • Bucket • Countdown Platform • Donut platform • Egg Plant • Flimsy Lift • Goal roulette • Message Block • Middle Ring • Mine Cart • Morph bubble • Number Ball • Paddle wheel • Rough platform • Soft rock • Spring ball • Stilts • Stork Stop • Tulip • Winged Cloud
Bosses Big Burt Bros. • Gilbert the Gooey • Hector the Reflector • Big Bungee Piranha • Bessie Bass • Priscilla the Peckish • Six-Face Sal • Big Guy the Stilted • Moltz the Very Goonie • Baby Bowser • Bowser • Giant Bowser
Enemies and obstacles Bandit • Bill Blaster • Big Boo • Blargg • Blooper • Blow Hard • Boo • Boss Bass • Bouncy • Boo Guy • Bullet Bill • Bumpty • Bungee Piranha • Burt Brother • Cascading Stone • Cheep Cheep • Chomp • Cloud Drop • Crabble • Crazee Dayzee • Dancing Spear Guy • Debull • Dizzy Dandy • Drool Hard • Egg-enut • Eggo-Dil • Fang • Fat Guy • Fleeper • Flightless Goonie • Flightless Skeleton Goonie • Flopsy Fish • Fly Guy • Gargantua Blargg • Gargantua Blargg (tall) • Glide Guy • Gobblin • Gooey Goon • Goonie • Green Glove • Gusty • Hanging Blow Hard • Hot Lips • Incoming Chomp • Invisighoul • Item Balloon • Itsunomanika Heihō • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Lantern Ghost • Lunge Fish • Nep-Enut • Nipper Dandelion • Nipper Plant • Nipper Spore • Para-Koopa • Petal Guy • Piranha Plant • Pirate Guy • Podoboo • Pointey • Pokey • Polterpiranha • Potted Ghost • Rocket Guy • Sanbo Flower • Scorchit • Shark Chomp • Shy Guy • Shy Guy on Stilts • Shy Stack • Skeleton Goonie • Slugger • Snap Jaw • Spear Guy • Spiked weight • Spinning Spikes • Spray Fish • Super Big Tap-Tap • Tap-Tap • Thorn • Toober Guy • Ukiki • Unshelled Koopa • Wall Lakitu • Wild Ptooie Piranha • Windbag • Woozy Guy
Bonus Challenges Flip Cards • Scratch and Match • Match Cards • Roulette • Slot Machine
Minigames Tulip Shooter • Flutter Challenge • Bouncy Maze • Speed-Eater • Egg Toss
Miscellaneous Countdown Timer • Gallery • Pre-release and unused content • Staff • Yoshi's Egg Toss • Yoshi's Island
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Yoshi's New Island
Protagonists Playable characters Yoshis
Allies Baby Mario • Mr. Pipe • Poochy
Other Baby Luigi • Stork • Blarggwich • Blarggwich (sandwich) • Mario
Worlds World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6
Items and objects ! Block • ! Switch • Arrow block • Arrow Cloud • Arrow wheel • Binoculars • Blue watermelon • Bucket • Checkpoint Ring • Chomp Rock • Coin • Conveyor Belt • Countdown Platform • Crate • Donut Block • Egg Block • Egg Medal • Egg Plant • Expansion Block • Flatbed Ferry • Flipper • Flutter Wings • Goal Ring • Hidden Coin • Item Balloon • Key • Leaf platform • Mega Eggdozer • Message Block • Metal Eggdozer • Paddle Platform • Post • Red coin • Red watermelon • Red Yoshi Star • Rough platform • Seesaw • Smiley Flower • Snowball • Spring Ball • Star • Tatami Block • Tulip • Warp Pipe • Watermelon • Whirly Gate • Winged Cloud • Wobble Rock • Yoshi egg (Flashing Egg · Red Egg · Yellow Egg) • Yoshi Star
Bosses Mid-boss Kamek
World bosses Big Beanie • Count Fang • King Clawdaddy • Furious Fred de Fillet • Punkey the Pokey Prince • Baby Bowser • Mega Baby Bowser • Bowser • Mega Bowser
Enemies Bandit • Bill Blaster • Blargg • Blooper • Blow Hard • Boo • Boo Blah • Boo Guy • Bouncing Bullet Bill • Bowling Goonie • Bubble Dayzee • Bullet Bill • Bumpty • Caged Ghost • Cheep Cheep • Chomp Shark • Clawdaddy • Cloud Drop • Coin Bandit • Crazee Dayzee • Dancing Spear Guy • Dangling Ghost • Deep Cheep • Dizzy Dandy • Door Heihō • Dr. Freezegood • Eggo-Dil • Fake Yoshi • Fang • Fire Wanwan Dosun • Fishin' Lakitu • Flightless Goonie • Flightless Skeleton Goonie • Flutter • Fly Guy • Gargantua Blargg • Goomba • Goonie • Grim Leecher • Grunt • Gusty • Harry Hedgehog • Hefty Goonie • Hootie the Blue Fish • Hot Lips • Itsunomanika Heihō • Jean de Fillet • Kaboomba • Kamek's Toadies • Koopa Paratroopa • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Lantern Ghost • Lava Drop • Little Mouser • Little Skull Mouser • Loch Nestor • Lunge Fish • Mace Guy • Mame-san • Mega Guy • Mega Kantera • Metal Guy • Milde • Nep-Enut • Nipper Plant • Nipper Spore • Petal Guy • Piranha Plant • Piro Dangle • Pokey • Pokey (heading) • Pokey (projectile) • Preying Mantas • Puchipuchi L • Pyro Guy • Raphael the Raven • Raven • Raven (chick) • Relay Heihō • Sanbo Flower • Shy Guy • Skeleton Goonie • Slime • Slime Drop • Solo Toady • Snifit • Spear Guy • Spiny Egg • Spray Fish • Stilt Guy • Tap-Tap • Tap-Tap the Golden • Tetu Kantera • Thunder Lakitu • Tree Heihō • Ukiki • Wall Lakitu • Whirly Fly Guy • Woozy Guy • Zeus Guy
Minigames Ground-Pound Pop • Tulip Toss • Flutter Fortune • Enemy Eat-Off • Eggy Pop • Flutter Finish
Other Countdown Timer • Media • Message Block hints • Pre-release and unused content • Quotes
Related Play Nintendo activities:
Are you an expert Yoshi-ologist? • Can’t-miss games • Yoshi's New Island Match-Up
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Yoshi's Woolly World / Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World
Protagonists Playable characters Yoshis • Poochyb
Allies Bouncy • Fluffin' Puffin • Gold Lakitub • Poochy • Poochy Pupb
Locations Worlds World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6 • Wonderful World of Wool (★-S)
Other amiibo Hut • Boss Tent • Craft Island • Poochy Hutb • Scrapbook Theater • Yoshi Hut • Yoshi Theaterb
Items and objects Accordion wall • Arrow wheel • Bead • Bead jar • Bow • Cannon bobbin • Checkpoint • Chomp Rock • Countdown Platform • Egg Plant • Fire watermelon • Flipper • Goal Ring • Heart • Ice watermelon • Invincibility Egg • Item Balloon • Key • Mobile • Paddle Platform • Pencil Patchb • Post • Power Badge • Present Box • Seesaw • Smiley Flower • Spring Ball • Stamp Patcha • Transformation Door • Warp Pipe • Watermelon • Winged Cloud • Wonder Wool • Yarn ball • Yarn Basket
Mini-bosses Big Montgomery • Knot-Wing the Koopa
Bosses Burt the Bashful • Bunson the Hot Dog • Miss Cluck the Insincere • Naval Piranha • Snifberg the Unfeeling • Kamek • Baby Bowser • Mega Baby Bowser
Enemies Bill Blaster • Bomb Guy • Boo Guy • Bull's-Eye Bill • Bullet Bill • Bullet Bill Patch • Bumpty • Burrbert • Burt • Cheep Cheep • Clawdaddy • Fang • Flightless Goonie • Flightless Skeleton Goonie • Flooff • Fluffy Phantom • Fly Guy • Fooly Flower • Frame Boo • Frame Chomp • Gargantua Blargg • Goonie • Gusty • Hook Guy • Hot Dog • Ice Snifit • Koopa Paratroopa • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Lava Drop • Li'l Smooch Spider • Little Mouser • Lunge Fish • Miss Cluck • Monty Mole • Monty Mole Patch • Nep-Enut • Nipper Plant • Nipper Spore • Nipper Spore Patch • Peeply • Pharaoh Guy • Piranha Plant • Pokey Pom • Ruffin' Tumble • Ruffin' Tumble Patch • Shell Patch • Shy Guy • Shy Guy Tower • Skeleton Goonie • Smooch Spider • Snag-Stitch • Snifit • Snoot • Snow Guy • Spray Fish • Stalking Piranha Plant • Stilt Guy • Tap-Tap • Wall Lakitu • Wik • Wild Ptooie Piranha • Woollet Bill • Woozy Guy
Miscellaneous Poochy Dashb • Pre-release and unused content • Staff (3DS) • Stampsa • Yoshi designs • Yoshi's Woolly World: Adventure Guide (Super Cool Jake)
a Exclusive to Yoshi's Woolly World
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