Super Circus AtariAge (HOKEY Audio Included) - Atari 7800

Big Doings Under The Big Top!

How good are your reflexes? As the clown bounces around in the different directions, you try to catch him on the teeter-totter. Send him up to the top of the big top to pop red, yellow, and blue balloons worth different points. The harder the "pop", the more you score!

Gameplay

Score as many points as possible by breaking all of the balloons, catching all of the power-up balloons that occasionally drop from a popped balloon, beating the 'boss balloon', and catching one of the bonus items that periodically float across the screen.

Catch your clown on the high end of your teeter-totter (located at the bottom of the screen), so that the clown on the opposite end gets flung into the air! Catching your clown on the outmost edge of the teeter-totter causes him to fly higher.

You have three rows of balloons at the top of the screen; each a different color and each moving at a different velocity. There are also two sets of bumpers that will bounce your clown in different directions when hit. You start the game with three reserve clowns. Each time you miss catching a clown with your teeter-totter (or land a clown on top of the other), you lose a reserve clown. If you lose all of your reserve clowns, your game is over.

Features

• 2 Game Modes
• 1 or 2 Players, alternating or simultaneous
• 3 Difficulty Settings
• Joystick and Paddles supported
• 8 different Power-Ups
• Includes HOKEY chip for POKEY sound effects and music

HOKEY Audio Included!

This version of Beef Drop VE incorporates an on-board HOKEY chip for improved sound effects and music versus the TIA audio that most 7800 games employ. The HOKEY, developed by Fred Quimby, creator of the Harmony and Concerto flash carts, is a drop-in replacement for Atari's proprietary POKEY chip. As the POKEY was a custom chip produced by Atari, the only POKEY chips in existence are those that were manufactured for Atari 8-bit computers (400/800, 800XL, 130XE, etc.), the Atari 5200, certain Atari arcade games, and the two Atari 7800 games Ballblazer and Commando.

There are very few sources of new, unused POKEY chips. Many are removed from Ballblazer carts, as they are relatively common. These chips have not been produced in 30 years! This means that the POKEY chips in existence are drying up, and we will no longer sacrifice Ballblazer cartridges as a source for POKEY chips. The higher price of Beef Drop VE with a HOKEY reflects the price of the game and the inclusion of the onboard HOKEY chip, and is far less than what we would need to charge if we were using genuine POKEY chips.

Additional Information

Super Circus AtariAge includes a box, game cartridge with an onboard HOKEY chip, and a full-color, 4-page manual. Super Circus AtariAge is available in NTSC and PAL television formats. Please choose above (if you don't make a selection, you will receive the NTSC version by default).