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Clowns is a black and white arcade game released by Midway Manufacturing in 1978. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is similar to Exidy's Circus from the prior year, in which the player controls a seesaw to propel two clowns into the air, catching balloons situated in three rows at the top of the screen.
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.
Do not include games where they only feature as secondary characters or enemies. Pages in category "Video games about clowns" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
Circus is a block breaker arcade video game released by Exidy in 1977, and distributed by Taito in Japan. [2] The game is a re-themed variant of Atari, Inc.'s Breakout, where the player controls a seesaw and clown in order to pop all the balloons in the level.
The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display.
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Edwin S. Lowe (1910 – February 23, 1986) was a U.S. salesman, toymaker, game entrepreneur and real estate developer whose promotion of a game he renamed Bingo [1] made it popular as a national pastime and fundraising activity for churches and schools.
A clown is a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct makeup or costuming and reversing folkway-norms.The art of performing as a clown is known as clowning or buffoonery, and the term "clown" may be used synonymously with predecessors like jester, joker, buffoon, fool, or harlequin.