Circus Caper is a Toho NES platformer featuring a child exploring a circus transformed into a magical nightmare. The representation alternates platform and action phases with fantastic creatures and traps in an original Japanese cinema license formula. Honest for atypical NES platform fans, curiosity of the 8 bit Toho catalog.
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Action platformer following a young circus performer through rings, sideshows and weirder venues to rescue his sweetheart. Released by Toho in 1990 in the United States. Acrobatics, wild animals and a carnival-themed bestiary. A modest cartridge with an unusual atmosphere in the NES catalogue.
Complete: box, manual and disc/cart very clean. Lightly handled.
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Released in the United States in 1990 under the Toho banner, Circus Caper holds an odd spot in the late NES catalogue, carrying a publisher better known for Japanese cinema than for games. That unusual Toho presence, scarce on the console, plus the title's carnival atmosphere give it the feel of an outlier. A modest production, its desirability rests on the oddity of its publisher rather than on standout gameplay.
