Circus
Channel 8 Software 
, Digital Fantasia , Molimerx 1982
- Language:
- English
- Authors:
- Brian Howarth , Wherner Barnes
- Systems:
- SAGA
- Platforms:
- Atari 400/800, BBC/Electron , C16/Plus4, C64/128 , Dragon 32/64 , Oric/Atmos, PC , Spectrum, TRS-80
- 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.
Resources (Upload file)
- Solution (C64/128)
- by Gunness
- Solution
- by Sudders
- Map
- by nimusi
- Map
- by Sudders
- Map
- by Dom
- Hints
- by Gunness, Ken Hart
- Review
- by Sudders
- Further Info:
- Search at Atari 8-bit Forever
- Search at Atari Mania
- Search at Complete BBC Games Archive
- Search at Gamebase64
- Search at Museum of Computer Adventure Game History
- Search at Oric Site
- Search at Plus/4 World
- Search at Spectrum Computing
- Search at The Dragon Archive
- Search at The Tipshop
- Search at World of Spectrum
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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.)
Interesting. I find that Circus is one of the least effective games in the series. But it does have its spooky moments :-)
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.