Vs. Balloon Fight

Vs. Balloon Fight is an arcade port of the Nintendo Entertainment System video game Balloon Fight. Both games were developed at the same time, with HAL Laboratory working on the NES version while SRD worked on the arcade game.

Development
HAL Laboratory developed the NES game while SRD worked on the arcade version. After both versions were completed, SRD wondered why the NES version had the Balloon Fighter moving more smoothly, and asked now Nintendo president Satoru Iwata for advise (at the time he worked at HAL). Iwata suggested that instead of just calculating the character's movements using integers, they could also calculate the movements by using decimal points. After Shigeru Miyamoto learned that SRD went to another company to figure how to make a game run smoothly, he asked "why do you have to go to another company to find this stuff out?"