If a balloon falls below the top of the stack, pressing the "kick" button when near the clown's feet launches it back into the air.

However, early tests showed that the game grew too difficult too quickly, as the objects fell faster than the player could catch them.

Hank Ross, one of Midway's founders, introduced a mechanic where the clown could kick missed balloons back into the air.

At Hank Ross's suggestion, the characters from Pac-Man were added as collectable objects in the game, to give Kick a memorable quirk.

Ultimately deciding against it, Midway sold the port to CBS Electronics, where, despite being nearly complete, it was cancelled for unknown reasons.

"[6] The Commodore 64 version was somewhat better received, gaining a Certificate of Merit in the category of "1984 Best Arcade-to-Home Video Game/Computer Game Translation" at the 5th annual Arkie Awards.