'Balloon Boy' Returns As Video Game

October 21, 2009 8:55 p.m. EST

San Francisco, CA (AHN) - The real Balloon Boy is at home and well, but in the virtual world, he's still flying high.

A new game, available online at BalloonBoyGame.com, features a cartoon likeness of the real Balloon Boy, Falcon Henne. In the game, he battles left-wing movie maker Michael Moore, helicopters, UFOs and actual falcons.

The cartoon-Balloon Boy flies through the sky, attached to the homemade balloon that garnered so much media attention last week-that's what prompted Jude Gomila, one the creators, to design the game.

Gomila, who's based in San Francisco, said it took him and his friends about six hours to create the game, and they launched it on Twitter when they were done, NY Daily News reported.

Last week, in an odd move, Falcon's parents told authorities they thought their son might have lifted off in their homemade weather balloon, spawning a search across land and sky throughout two Colorado counties. Turns out Falcon never left the family's attic, and his parents now face criminal charges.

The game is distributed by Heyzap, an online gaming startup that gained notoriety a few months back when it released Swinefighter, where players kill pigs with a giant needle.

In a nod to the fruitless search for Balloon Boy, a banner across the game's homepage reads "How Many $$$$ of Tax Payer Money Can You Waste?"