SLACKERJACK - Balloon Express
Then buzz it up
June 26th, 2006 at 12:30 by Stuart Heritage
By far the stupidest way to travel anywhere is by a hot air balloon. Whoever had the idea of floating in the air while standing in a tub made of loosely-woven plant fibre next to a giant flame-thrower was, in short, a dick.
Alright, so we're scared of hot air balloons, OK? But we've been playing Balloon Express now for a while, and the only thing that's scared us about that is how often we've returned to it. On the surface of it, Balloon Express seems easy - you fly over some beautiful locations sliding parcels down ropes into people's homes - but Balloon Express is a tricky little bugger, where a split-second decision can be the difference between success and failure. And by 'failure' we mean 'falling out of your stupid little firebasket onto your face'. That doesn't happen in Balloon Express, but it happens. Oh, it happens.
