Atari 8-bit Frank Cohen TRS-80 Color Computer Steve Bjork
Platform(s)
Atari 8-bit, TRS-80 Color Computer
Release
1982
Genre(s)
Action
Clowns and Balloons is a circus-themed video game written by Frank Cohen for Atari 8-bit computers and published in 1982 by Datasoft.[1][2] The game was also released for the TRS-80 Color Computer, written by Steve Bjork who had released a similar game called Space Ball for the TRS-80 in 1980.[3][4][5]Clowns and Balloons is a clone of the 1977 arcade game Circus. A variant of Breakout, the player moves a trampoline left and right to catch a bouncing clown who pops rows of balloons at the top of the screen with his head.
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