Balloon Battle
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Balloon Battle is a Battle Mode game that has been featured in each Mario Kart game to date. It sometimes appears alongside other Battle Mode games, but it has the same courses that the other modes do.
In most Mario Kart games, each player has three Balloons. They must find Items scattered around the course, and attack the other players, making them lose a Balloon each time they are successfully attacked.
The two ways to lose a Balloon are:
- being attacked by an item
- fall off the side of the course
Balloons can also be stolen if players blast through others with Mushrooms. The last player with any Balloons remaining wins.
In Mario Kart DS, the system of the game was slightly changed. Players now have five Balloons, but start out with only one - the rest had to be blown up via Microphone, or by holding down the Select Button. Only three could be out at a time, and the player would be eliminated if they had no balloons out, even if they had more in reserve.
In Mario Kart Wii , the game mode got its biggest change, now the battles are by time, each battle lasts 3 minutes. By each balloon lost, the player will give the opposite team a point. If the player loses it's three balloons, she/he won't get eliminated, she/he will be given another three balloons.
At the end of the time, the team with the most points wins.
