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Circus

Channel 8 Software info, Digital Fantasia info, Molimerx info 1982

Language:
English
Authors:
Brian Howarth info, Wherner Barnes
Platforms:
Atari 400/800, BBC/Electron info, C16/Plus4, C64/128 info, Dragon 32/64 info, Oric/Atmos, PC info, Spectrum, TRS-80 info
Genres:
Horror
Related:
Mysterious Adventures [1: Golden Baton, The, 2: Time Machine, The, 3: Arrow of Death Part 1, 4: Arrow of Death Part 2, 5: Escape From Pulsar 7, 6: Circus, 7: Feasibility Experiment, 8: Wizard of Akyrz, The, 9: Perseus & Andromeda, 10: Ten Little Indians, 11: Waxworks, 12: Midwinter, 13: After the Fire, 14: Beyond the Infinite, 15: Ghost of Mars, The]
Entered by:
Alastair, dave, Gunness, Strident, WhenIWasCruel
Added:
10-05-2010
Edited:
08-07-2020

Synopsis

Plot

While driving your car, you run out of gas. You search the area and come across an old circus, mysteriously deserted.... or is it?

Notes

The original TRS-80 version, and slightly later IBM PC port, was published by Molimerx.

To obtain graphics on a Dragon requires the computer to be in Dragon 64 mode, otherwise the game is text only.

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Images

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Circus.gif Circus.gif Circus.png Circus_2.png Circus_3.png circus_bbc.png Circus_1.png Circus_2.png Circus_3.png

Rating

Average User Rating: 5.6 (7 ratings)

Your Rating: —

User Comments

darius (16-07-2010 14:15)

Circus is a surprisingly spooky game. Your car is out of gas and grinds to a halt near a deserted circus. While exploring the circus looking for some gazoline a shy clown asks you for a final favour. The game is very old-school; primitive parser, simple and slooow graphics and very sparse prose. Yet I think it should be played since it is one of the best Channel 8/Brian Howarth games in the Mysterious Adventures series. If you only play one of these Circus is a good choice. (Note: at one point a timer in the game makes it difficult to play the game in an accelerated emulator. It's when the clown appears; you won't see him if the emulator is set too fast.)

Gunness (23-07-2010 07:39)

Interesting. I find that Circus is one of the least effective games in the series. But it does have its spooky moments :-)

Exemptus (14-05-2020 13:00)

I think it is OK. Many people like this game because it has better atmosphere and puzzles than others in the series, but that can be a matter of opinion.