出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/06/20 17:20 UTC 版)
Balloon Pop is a video game released for the Wii in North America on October 23, 2007. It is the first puzzle strategy game released for the Wii. The objective of the game is to pop balloons using the Wii Remote. There are various modes including Story Mode, Puzzle Mode, and VS CPU mode. Balloon Pop can support up to two players. The game was a huge critical and commercial success. With many popular game critics (IGN, Gamespot, etc) rewarding the game with an average of a 9.3 rating. It received the game of the year award in 2007. However, sales for the game have been extremely low as it has only managed to sell 550, 000 copies worldwide as of June 2011 since the game had a very large marketing budget. Nintendo, and the game's developing company were said to be extremely disappointed. Both companies lost a total of approximately 1.1 billion dollars. Two years after its release, IGN deemed the game as the "biggest disaster in video game history."