Posted on: January 27, 2024
Hanglyman
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A Collection of Dated Minigames
I got this for free during a giveaway, and while it might have been fine back in 1989, it doesn't have much to offer in the modern gaming era. The background music is just bleep-bloops, though I didn't find it as insufferable as other reviewers, and the entire game is just a series of mini-games, which you have to play in order with only one or two chances at each. After each event, judges will award you a cash prize based on your performance and if you make $10,000 by the end, the circus is saved. If not, it gets paved and up goes a cold, joyless apartment building. Unfortunately, the controls for these games are not great, nor do you get enough time to learn them before some weird unexpected factor comes into play. For example, on the first event, the high dive, you just have to aim for the water basin below, but then a clown comes in with a magnet and pulls you off course. How do you resist it? Beats me. Later, you swing on the flying trapeze, and it takes perfect timing to make it to the next one without falling. Nail the timing, and some kind of barrier appears between trapezes. How do you get past it? I don't know, and the game certainly won't tell me. I had to check other reviews just to discover that the game expects you to use the INSERT key to select your number of players on the main menu, as opposed to, say, the space key, or the enter key, or... I don't know, any key that a human being might guess? Eventually you can probably experiment and figure out how to master these games, but they're not really much fun and not worth the effort when there are literally thousands of better games available. On the plus side, the graphics hold up extremely well. Everything is detailed and colorful and has a great lively circus feel. But put this game low on your priorities if you got it for free, and definitely don't pay more than a dollar for it without knowing exactly what you're getting.
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