Lost In Translation/Circus

About The Game
POP! POP! POP! 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 catching a clown on the teeter-totter and bouncing him up to the balloons.

Technical
Circus came in an upright dedicated cabinet, and may have also been available in a cocktail configuration as well. Circus machines had white sides with red painted sideart of several balloons in flight. The front of the machine was decorated with a large ornate monitor bezel that also doubled as a marquee (or nameplate), this bezel showed several clowns in a circus scene and had the game title spelled out with multicolored balloons. The control panel was unadorned, save for an analog spinner and a start button. The whole machine was finished off in black t-molding. Once inside the machine, you can see that it uses a black and white monitor with a colored overlay (to make the balloons have color).

Trivia
Circus 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.

At least 13,000 units, possibly as many as 20,000, were produced.

A bootleg was made by Sub-Electro.

Scoring

 * 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

Staff

 * Designed And Programmed By:
 * Edward Valeau
 * Howell Ivey

Ports

 * Consoles :
 * Atari 2600 (1978)


 * Computers :
 * VTech Laser-VZ
 * Tandy Color Computer (1982, "Clowns & Balloons")
 * Commodore C64
 * Commodore Vic-20