/vr/ - Retro Games

This is something I never thought I would see here: someone else beside me likes Circus Charlie.
I agree, it is really fun game, shame it never got bigger.

>>492556
>>492572
I think you both got part of your answer: it seems it wasn't popular enough.
I liked it too, but there's just something about clowns I don't really like.

Sometimes they look scary or are really not funny or they may be too goofy.

But if you take, let's say LInk, he's an adventurer and he uses many weapons, he explores a huge world, etc., it makes the kid's imagination get going.

This japanese clown band still remembers the game, and even made a song called サーカスチャーリー (Circus Charly)

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/nm9423396

but yeah a shame the game just got forgotten by everyone.

All I remember form this game is pure rage and despair.

others like circus charlie too?
I thought I was alone. also the music is so catchy.

>>492556

Fuck this game. Fuck it hard.

It's terrifying. It's the creepiest game ever made.

>>492837

I agree, shit's creepy

>you can actually burn the lion's poor balls if you don't jump correctly
>You can fall from the top of the damn rope by just touching a fucking monkey
>You run at the maximum fuck while standing on a horse, and you must jump the springboards while keeping that same velocity
>AND DON'T FORGET THAT EVERYTIME YOU FALL, YOUR SORRY ASS GETS SPLITED.

Circus Charlie is goddamn awesome. My mom used to play that thing a lot. Hell, if I ask her to play that thing, she may do it

>>492814
>pure rage and despair.

absolutely agreed, fuck this shitty game

along with this piece of shit, holy fuck

>>492973

Biased Hit-Boxes: The Game

>>492973

Heh, there's a way to break the damn game by jumping and kicking at a certain rythm, I might be putting a video if you guys are interested in it

Oh shit, I didnt remember this one!

Thanks vro, I keep finding old games in this board!

Haha, I remember Circus Charlie too.

About the only levels I could finish were the tightrope (unless those blue dickbag monkeys ended up creating an unescapable trap). And I think the one where you jump from ball to ball.

The one with the lion was fucked up.

I preferred Mappy. You could actually make pretty far in that. And the music, I loved it.

I can make it all the way to the trapeze level...and that's when I lose it. Much harder than it looks.

For another note, try the arcade version of Circus Charlie. There's an extra level not in the NES version.

>>492973
This game is sadly easy if you figure out how to punch/kick/jump kick and walk away.

>>493003

and by "breaking the game" I meant that you can freeze all your enemies and advance until the end of times

>>493030

Mappy is a great game, and oh man the levels are completely awesome. The physics in the game are tricky as hell but once you get a hold of how to jump/waste the ropes, you're pretty much ok

Someone should make a map editor for that thing

>>492973
holy fucking shit my early childhood, goddamn shit i haven't seen this game in more then 18 years, god damn fucking shit, NAME pls

>>493082

filename, brah

sage for near-double post

>>492937
>Circus Charlie is goddamn awesome

Well you sure weren't playing the Famicom version which never saw the light of day here.

>>492787
I seem to recall that Twisted Metal was pretty popular

>>493431
i don't see how they could have been playing Yi Ar Kung Fu either

>>493474

I had a Famiclone growing up (pic related, it's the kind of Famiclones and carts we used to get here at the time), it's what was popular in my country. One day my friend showed me his NES, I thought it was going to be awesome because of the big size and I mean, fuck, it's the NINTENDO... yeah, it was same as my Famiclone, just bulkier.

That way I got to play a lot of japanese games thanks to chinese piracy.
Arcade classics from Konami like Twin Bee, Yie-Ar Kung Fu or Circus Charlie were super common in 30 in 1 carts, for example. Anartic Adenture too, a lot of Konami arcades were there.

Also, Yie-Ar Kung Fu deserves more respect. It may be a simple game with lots of flaws, but it was pretty much the ancestor of every japanese fighting game (or fighting game genre as a whole).

I fucking LOVE Circus Charlie

>>493523
Are you from southamerica? I am ,and I also had a "Family"

>>493530

Yup, Argie, la family es lo mejor!

>>493474
This thing had both.

>>492556
This game depressed me when I was a kid. A female relative had it, and we both hated it with a passion for some reason.

>>493523
I had a famiclone that looked like the SNES, and the extra buttons on the pads worked as turbo buttons.

It had quite a lot of classic titles on it:
Pac Man
Road Fighter
Mappy
Check'n'Pop
Tetris (Atari)
Exerion
Galaxians
Bomberman
Field Combat
Popeye
Antarctic Adventure
Devil World
Ice Climber
Circus Charlie
Dig Dug
Balloon Fight
Duck Hunt
Tank
Nuts and Milk
Lode Runner
Sky Destroyer
Binary Land
Wild Gunman

All of them in various variations, like Fiery Adventure Island 5 that had Adventure Island start at world 5 with fireball powerup, or Super Adventure Island 8 which started on the last world with fireball & skateboard powerups being standards when you die, etc.

Tetris and Chinese Chess only had the default variation.