Big Top (video game)

Big Top is a circus-themed platform game for the IBM PC family of computers, written by Michael Abrash and published by Funtastic in 1983. The game was distributed on a self-booting disk.

Big Top
Developer(s)Michael Abrash
Publisher(s)Funtastic
Platform(s)IBM PC
Release1983
Genre(s)Platform
Mode(s)Single player

Gameplay

The first ring of the game

Big Top features a circus "big top" theme. The user plays the part of a clown with the job of gathering all the hats on each ladder-filled levelwhere, in keeping with the theme, levels are called rings. Each ring spans across at least two screens and has an upper and lower level. Obstacles include evil clowns, cannons, and rolling barrels.

Reception

gollark: Observe, my laser. It accelerates light to speeds so high that it's not actually rendered.
gollark: With great difficulty, or subframe?
gollark: Oh, right. You're limited to however much fits on the screen.
gollark: moev?
gollark: Click the little page-with-folded-corner button.

See also

References

    • Big Top blog entry at Bunny Abandonware
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