A freeware console-style action game created by RjB Software. The game contains 100 levels each with 4 difficulty settings, along with 10 training and 10 secret stages. Interesting features such as the ability to record game replays are included.

Story

The gates of Hell have been broken, and only an adventurous hot-air balloon rider, equipped with an endless supply of firebombs and a killer umbrella, is brave enough to plunge into the depths and Hell and battle to save the planet.

Gameplay

The gameplay is fairly simple in concept: fly a hot-air balloon between spikes, past evil ghosts, wraiths, ballrogs, snowmen, fish, etc, without getting touched (one hit is instant death). Drop bombs and shoot a "Deadly Hunting Umbrella" to defeat all the villains in a level. Bombs always fall downward, while the umbrella fires upward. A 'perfect' rank (shown as a star on the level select screen) is achieved by collecting all the balloons on each stage.
The game is divided into ten realms, each with their own enemies, graphics, and music.

Realms

Firestone

The first realm is a fire stage, as the name implies, and corresponds with the traditional views of Hell.

Frostbite

Conversely, Frostbite is very cold, similar to the ninth circle of Hell in Dante's Inferno

Foulblight

A sewer-like realm, complete with green water, and is slightly easier than the previous realm.

Hellflesh

This realm seems to be inside a living body, containing nonlethal blood pools and parasitic enemies.

Mindwarp

Based on the state of insanity, Mindwarp has several enemies from previous levels in unusual combinations. It also introduces switches, affecting various parts of the level.

Darkwater

A water realm, notably easier than earlier realms.

Grimbone

Bones form the architecture of these levels, and the enemies are mostly white.

Graveyard

An underground graveyard, containing flowers that release enemies (an allusion to the phrase "pushing up daisies")

Quicksand

An Egyptian-themed level.

Technodeath

The final realm; a high-tech dystopian city with robots replacing any living creatures.


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