The year was 1978 when Circus was released for the Atari 2600, a platform that would bring this action-packed game to life. In this game, you play as a clown trying to pop balloons at the top of the screen by catching a fellow clown on the teeter-totter and bouncing him up to the balloons.
The gameplay is simple yet challenging. You must move the teeter-totter across the screen using the controller to catch the clowns, each one landing on any point except where another clown is sitting, which causes them to crash. Each player receives five clowns or turns. If you fail to catch a clown, he will disappear from the playfield. After five clowns have crashed, the game is over.