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Balloon Boy game hits the web
A video game depicting the Colorado 'Balloon Boy' saga has begun circulating on the social networking site, Twitter.
Created by San Francisco-area software developers, Jude Gomila, Immad Akhund and James Smith for heyzap.com, the game depicts a main character, 'Balloon Boy' - based on six year old Falcon Heene - who flies through the air with his balloon.
To score points, 'Balloon Boy' must defend himself against 'Falcons', as well a squadron of UFOs, and director Michael Moore who is perched aboard a news helicopter. To win the game, 'Balloon Boy' must reach his secret attic.
The real-life drama on which the game is based unfolded on Thursday 15 October 2009, when Falcon became the subject of a massive rescue operation and a media feeding frenzy, after he was initially believed to have flown away on a home-made helium balloon built by his father for a weather experiment.
To the surprise of police and a nation of television viewers transfixed by the two-hour long spectacle, Falcon was discovered hiding in a box in the attic above his family's garage, hours after the balloon deflated and landed softly in a dirt field.
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