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My first time playing Circus Charlie was all the way back in my childhood when my brother bought one of those bootleg plug-and-play consoles from my mall's toy store that came with a bunch of NES roms. That console introduced me to a handful of NES classics that I would come to enjoy such as the first Mario game, Popeye, Ice Climber, and this game of course. When I had it, I only got past the first couple of levels due to my lack of skill and the console eventually breaking. Those NES games became a memory for a little while until I eventually got curious and discovered what emulation was thanks to my curiosity of wanting to play Circus Charlie again.

One small issue I have with this port is it is missing a level from its arcade counterpart, which is the trampoline level. I assume it was due to technical limitations but it still sucks nonetheless. The other five levels are intact and they include riding on a lion hopping over rings of fire, walking on a tight rope jumping over monkeys, jumping from ball to ball, riding a horse, and swinging on the trapeze. As you can tell, a lot of jumping is involved and the levels will require you to have good timing and precision with your jumps as the levels get more difficult as you progress. It's pretty hard when you get to the horse and trapeze, but satisfying when you beat all 5 levels.

One last tidbit I'd like to mention is that this port of the game never got an official localization. You could get the Arcade Archives version of the original arcade release or play that version on those Konami classic collections on Ps1 & DS. but having this version on NSO would still be a neat addition to have. It's a criminally underrated NES game and you should totally emulate it.

Fun for an hour or two until you figure it out. Worth the inclusion on so many bootleg carts.

My favorite character is the small elephant in the background of stage 1.

Short little game where you do little circus stunts.
It gets boring quick but other than that it's entertaining.
The swinging stage is hard to master.

I remember playing this with a friend one time when we were kids, and now I replayed it. You jump fire, you jump monkeys (There's a blue monkey that's super fast for some reason), you jump balls, and then I lost. I just googled and there's 2 more levels before it's just the same thing on a loop. At the time it was probably great.

Hard doesn't even start to describe this game but damn if it ain't satisfying when you do pull off one of the stages.


the first game you taught me not always playing is going to be fun, a relic!!

Sans the final level, it's actually a pretty fun game.

Lo jugaba de muy pequeñita con una MSX. Me encantaba la música, la he tenido retenida en mi cabeza desde entonces.
Como tampoco soy muy mayor, cuando les contaba a mis profesores que yo conocía y jugaba a este juego, siempre se quedaban pasmados. Aunque obvio es muy antiguo y los niveles son repetitivos, le tengo un cariño especial a este juego.

I must have been 4-5 years old at the time, but I still vividly remember playing this game - among many others - on a Pegasus (a fake NES console equivalent which was very popular in Poland in the late 90s) in my parents' living room. Still haven't finished it...

Hated and loved this game so much as a kid.

Uma das maiores raivas que um vídeo game pode te causar.

Outro jogo que tive a oportunidade de joga-lo, porém muito difícil e repetitivo. Simplesmente depois de você passar horas e horas tentando passar poucas fases elas simplesmente repetem novamente e é isso.

Eu sei que não deveria estar cobrando tanto de um console como o Nes, porém tem vários outros games muitos dinâmicos para a época.


Jogaria novamente? Só para matar a saudade e olhe lá.


A primeira vez que joguei ele foi naquelas nostálgicas fitas 150 IN 1 do Game Boy Advanced.

Curto e simples, você pode completar em 15 minutins (dependendo da sua -falta- de habilidade). Basicamente, você é um artista performático e tem que fazer alguns números clássicos do imaginário circense - tipo andar na corda bamba, pular em bolas gigantes, números com animais...

Não chega ser muito difícil, mas a última fase de pular na corda me deu alguns game-overs.

Bem legal! ao início da 1ª fase parece bem repetitivo e cansativo, mas ele sabe diversificar a gameplay e prender o jogador!

O jogo contém 5 mapas. Após a finalização do 5º, entra em loop. Devo dizer que os 4 primeiros mapas são bem fáceis, mas no 5º a dificuldade eleva bastante.

Ainda sobre a questão da dificuldade. Especialmente sobre o 1º mapa, onde temos anéis de fogos que devem ser atravessados com saltos por nosso leão, curiosamente existe uma versão que encontrei na internet chamada "Circus HTML" que é bem mais realista e menos "noob friendly". Já que, nas versões originais(ao menos na de NES que pude testar), o leão pode encostar boa parte das pernas e rabo nos objetos danosos e, ainda assim, não somos derrotados. Essa questão é corrigida na versão citada!

No mais, vale a pena conferir esse clássico! Joguei muito em meu DVD Game da CCE, um DVD que emulava Nintendinho!




Incredible physics and level design for its time. A classic for sure.

pois bem, eu tenho uma relação de amor e ódio com esse jogo eu jogava muito no Dynavision

Un juego divertidisimo y entrañable. Con las claras deficiencias de los juegos de su época.

A series of circus themed levels or minigames with some light platforming and jumping.

My fondest memories of this game are from my childhood, playing early in the morning trying to beat the trapeze level for the 100th time with my father watching and cheering me up. He didn't understand the first thing about video games, but he would be there watching it like it was a sports match on TV. When I finally managed to beat it, and the levels started repeating again, I felt a sense of accomplishment I hardly feel nowadays with video games.

Aqueles jogos do NES que você brasileiro jogou quando criança em um Polystation/Dynavision ou em qualquer outro famiclone famoso do mercado.

The clapping sounded like a demon coming to kill me.


Once you see all types of levels of this circus jumping game there is nothing more to do tbh. And I gotta admit that people who beat the game without save states are the real heroes.

O jogo é bem simples, mas quando eu era criança jogava qualquer coisa que tinha.

Joguei quando criança e simples ficou marcado na minha mente, lembro de ser muito difícil. Peguei pra jogar novamente e a nostalgia bateu muito forte!