Circus
Manufacturer: Exidy, 1977
Designed and programmed by: Edward Valeau, Howell Ivy
Description:
Pop the balloons and score points. A wall of yellow, green and blue
balloons will appear at the top of the screen. You must pop balloons
by placing a clown on the teeter-totter and bouncing him up to the
balloons. It was one of the first games produced by Exidy that used
a CPU (6502) to control the game logic instead of hand-crafted
hard-coded logic circuits.
Scoring tips:
Successful jump: 10 points
Popping Yellow Balloon: 20 points
Popping Green Balloon: 50 points
Popping Blue Balloon: 100 points
Bonus for Clearing Yellow Balloon Row: 200 points
Bonus for Clearing Green Balloon Row: 500 points
Bonus for Clearing Blue Balloon Row: 1,000 points plus free jump
