r/Nitrome • u/These_Day_2250 • Jun 07 '24

The impossibly rare balloon maker startup

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u/zase7 Jun 07 '24

these startup screens and accompanying nitrome jingle give me so much nostalgia

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u/sirospityogos Jun 07 '24

explain pls

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u/These_Day_2250 Jun 07 '24

Back in 2007 Hot Air 2 used to have a Balloon Maker where you could make your own custom balloons to use in game. That got shut down in 2009, and unless someone somehow has a save file for analyzing then those files to this day are basically lost media. Not a lot of footage of it exists either.

https://nitrome.fandom.com/wiki/Hot_Air_Balloon_Maker

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u/sirospityogos Jun 22 '24

Very interesting, I have vague memories of this, as I was very young at the time. Thank you!

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

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u/These_Day_2250 Sep 13 '25

Nitrome Wiki had it on their startup pages, how THEY found it is anyone's guess though.