Old Classic Retro Gaming | Atari 2600 Game: Circus Atari (1978 Atari) @oldclassicgame | Uploaded September 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 days ago.
A side-scrolling action game in which you pop balloons to earn points. At the top of the screen, a wall of white, blue, and red balloons will appear. Catching a clown on the teeter-totter and bouncing him up to the balloons is the only way to pop them. Utilize the regulator to move the seesaw across the screen to get the comedians. You'll get points for popping a balloon each time a clown does so. There are five clowns or turns given to each player. A clown will crash into the ground and vanish from the playfield if you are unable to catch him on the teeter-totter. Another clown will bounce off the trampoline from either the right or left corner of the playfield when you press the controller button. After five jokesters have crashed the game is finished. Except for where the other clown is sitting, which causes them to crash, the clowns can land on any point on the teeter-totter.
A side-scrolling action game in which you pop balloons to earn points. At the top of the screen, a wall of white, blue, and red balloons will appear. Catching a clown on the teeter-totter and bouncing him up to the balloons is the only way to pop them. Utilize the regulator to move the seesaw across the screen to get the comedians. You'll get points for popping a balloon each time a clown does so. There are five clowns or turns given to each player. A clown will crash into the ground and vanish from the playfield if you are unable to catch him on the teeter-totter. Another clown will bounce off the trampoline from either the right or left corner of the playfield when you press the controller button. After five jokesters have crashed the game is finished. Except for where the other clown is sitting, which causes them to crash, the clowns can land on any point on the teeter-totter.
![Atari 2600 Game: Combat [Aka Tank Plus] (1977 Atari)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lldMjtjNLrM/hqdefault.jpg "Atari 2600 Game: Combat [Aka Tank Plus] (1977 Atari)
A 2-player tank game. Is one of Ataris launch titles. This game is where where the players attempt to shoot each others tanks or planes. Hitting the enemy vehicle pushes it back and gives the player one point. The game contains 27 levels, each of which has different rules and playing field layout. On the tank levels, the players have a selection of two different mazes or no walls at all, while on the plane levels, the players can choose to play with clouds that obscure part of the screen. The Atari 2600 difficulty settings can be used to change the range of a players missiles, as well as the speed of ones airplanes in levels 15-27. All games have a time limit of 136 seconds.
The levels include:
1-5: Tank levels. Levels 3 and 5 are straight missile levels where the players projectiles simply fly forward. On the guided missile levels (1, 2, 4) the projectiles can be controlled with a joystick after firing.
6-9: Tank-pong levels, where the players missiles bounce off walls. In the billiard hit levels (8 and 9), theres an additional rule that a missile must bounce at least once before it can hit the enemy tank.
10 and 11: Invisible tank levels, where the tanks only become briefly visible when they shoot, bump into a wall, or are hit by a missile. Both of these give the players guided missiles.
12-14: Invisible tank-pong levels. Levels 13 and 14 use the billiard hit rule.
15-20: Biplane levels, where the players fly planes that are constantly moving forward and wrap around to the other side when they fly off the screen. Levels 15 and 19 use guided missiles; 16 and 20 use straight missiles; on 17 and 18, the players use rapid-fire machine guns. Additionally, level 19 is a 2 vs. 2 level - both players have two planes each that move and shoot together - and level 20 is 1 vs. 3, where one player has three planes while the other has a single large plane.
21-27: Jet fighter levels. The jet planes move faster than biplanes, but other than that gameplay remains similar. 22, 24, and 27 are straight missile levels, the rest are guided-missile levels. Additionally, 25 and 27 are 2 vs. 2 levels, while 26 is a 1 vs. 3 level.")
