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Bloons Tower Defense is a series of tower defense games developed by the Ninja Kiwi games studio. While initially launched as a flash browser game, subsequent games in the series have been released on Android, iOS, Windows Phone, PlayStation Portable, Xbox One and Nintendo DSi platforms.

History

In late 2007, the game Bloons TD was released as a free flash browser game, in which players would place monkeys along a track to pop various colored balloons. In 2008, the sequel flash game Bloons Tower Defense 2 was released, featuring additional maps, towers, bloons and difficulty settings.

In October 2008, the game Bloons TD 3 game was released, followed by a mobile version of the game in October 2009 for iOS devices. In December 2010, an iOS version of Bloons TD 4 was released. In December 2011, Bloons TD 5 was released, which was subsequently released on iOS, Android and Steam. In the coming years, the spin-off games Bloons TD Battles (2012) and Bloons Monkey City (2013) were released.

Bloons TD 6

On March 28th, 2017, Bloons TD 6 was announced as an upcoming game to be released on the iTunes app store, Google Play and Amazon App Store sometime over the next year.^[1]

Online Presence

On June 5th, 2009, the Bloons Wiki^[3] was launched, gathering more than 1,700 pages over the next eight years. On February 7th, 2016, YouTuber DanTDM uploaded a video showing a game of Bloons Tower Defense playing inside Minecraft (shown below). Within 15 months, the video gained over 2.9 million views and 7,800 comments.

Image Macros

On April 13th, Redditor AlreadyRedditEarlier posted a picture of an M.O.A.B. Bloon^[3] in reference to the Shayrat missile strike to /r/dankmemes^[4] (shown below, left). The following day, Redditor IKindaLikeFish submitted a chemical weapons-themed Bloons image macro to /r/memeeconomy, where it received upwards of 2,800 points (94% upvoted) and 50 comments within 11 hours (shown below, right). Meanwhile, several posts about Bloons memes reached the front page of /r/MemeEconomy.

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