File:Bw.pngWe need you! This article has an excess of redlinks in it. Try Re-Linking or Making New Pages to match. Balloon Help is an assistance technology under the Classic Mac OS. It was part of the Macintosh system since System 7. The idea was to choose Show Balloons from the Guide menu or Help menu. Context-sensitive balloons then would appear wherever you point, with text in 9-point Geneva font. As of System 7.5, a newer kind of on-screen assistance, Apple Guide, came into play.