21st March 2003, 12:53 PM
Key revelation, big spoiler, but the game is so old by now that it doesn't deserve spoiler tags: SHOOT THE GAS BURNERS IN THE BALLOONS! There are three cyllindrical gas burners in the upper part of the balloon that keep it afloat. concentrate your lazer fire on one of them and the whole balloon should go down pretty easily.
If you do it any other way, it gets really impossible, really fast.
If you do it any other way, it gets really impossible, really fast.