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Circus Charlie


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Circus Charlie - Japanese Title

Manufacturer: Konami
Year: 1984
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Platform
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

  • Orientation: Vertical
  • Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
  • CRT: Color
Conversion Class: Konami Classic
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player Ambidextrous
Controls:
  • Joystick: 2-way (left, right)
  • Buttons: 1

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

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Description

Guide Charlie through six different circus events including Fire Rings, Tight Rope, Trampoline, Ball Walk, Horse Back, and Flying Trapeze. Timer bonus points are added for finishing a level and more points are awarded for completing a round without losing Charlie. The game is over when all Circus Charlies are lost.

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Cheats, Tricks and Bugs

On the first level, if you get all the money bags, a bird will fly over and give you extra money at the end of the round. Also, on the first level, jump backwards through a hoop, then forwards to receive a "FREE" man.

Miscellaneous

Licensed to Centuri for US manufacture and distribution.

Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)

Common - There are 34 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 8 of them are original dedicated machines, 1 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards have been placed in another game cabinet, and 25 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Of the 42,694 video games (3,154 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 22 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records.

Wanted - There are 2 VAPS members currently looking for this game.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operatos might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses), while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up. Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector. For a clue to value, compare how many people have this game vs. how many people want this game and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range.

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1. KONAMI CIRCUS CHARLIE ARCADE GAME PCB

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Manuals

  1. Service Manual  6 Pages, 1932 KB File.

Foto-Finder™

  1. The Encyclpedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 182; Color photo;
Circus Charlie - Cabinet Image


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