Board:
Pos Score Name Date Lups
11 884
video
image
GAR
ZilchSr
2019-08-21 1000
10 501
video
image
GTi
GTi 🎱
2021-02-20 828
6 615
video
image
T
TheTrickster (HS)
2016-06-17 486
4 5 123
video
image
u
uNi73 (HS)
2014-11-25 349
5 1 002
video
image
ARW
Arrowhead12
2023-01-27 63
6 426
video
JAK
LTJACK
2020-12-26 25
7 373
image
Boe
Boegas
2019-01-05 20
8 355
video
image
PLY
Player1
2024-10-24 17
9 259
image
BER
Larquey
2017-10-16 11
10 131
image
WTO
oyamafamily
2014-04-27 5
Rules
General Rules: Left difficulty switch setting must remain in the B/Novice position throughout gameplay.
Right difficulty switch setting may be in any position at any time.
No use of trainers, cheats, saved game files, auto-fire (when not default present in-game), emulator save states, or other emulator advantages. No use of code modifications that give the player an advantage over other players. No continues.
It is discouraged and may lead to voters not accepting your score to:
- excessively point farm
- use glitches or other game exploits
Specific Rules:
⚙️ Game 1-1
∙ Breakout Circus (no moving barriers)
∙ Clown rebounds horizontally and vertically off balloons
∙ Cleared balloon rows regenerate immediately
👤 One player only.
🔢📈 Score chase. Highest score is best

⏪ Left difficulty switch setting must remain in the position indicated by the leaderboard category:
🅰 A / Expert: Clowns bounce and travel faster
🅱 B / Novice: Clowns bounce and travel slower
⏩ Right difficulty switch setting has no effect in a one-player variation, and can therefore be in any position at any time.

🌈 Color/BW switch: Switches display palette between Color and Black & White.

🔄 Rollover: 10,000
🏆 Maxout: None

✒️ Mike Lorenzen
©️ Atari, Inc.
🗓 1980

🌎 NTSC only
∙ PAL plays 16.7% slower horizontally and 1.2%–7.4% slower vertically, giving PAL a reflex advantage.
📦 Can use any released version
🔀 This game is known by 2 names, and all qualify for this track (within their respective NTSC / PAL timing categories):
✅ Circus Atari (CX2630)
✅ Circus (Sears Tele-Games 49-75122)

📖 Instruction manual: https://www.ataricompendium.com/archives/manuals/vcs/vcs_manuals.html
💾 ROM: Publicly released here: https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-circus-atari_7257.html

G 10.28.26
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