My Pico-8 interpretation of the 1980 Gremlin/Sega arcade game and the various console ports.
How to Play
Shoot everything until you run out of bullets!
Controls
[X] - Fire
Thanks To
- @IndieGamerChick for her review of the original (a game that I'd never once thought of remaking): https://indiegamerchick.com/2023/01/05/carnival/
Version History
- 0.80 - 24-Nov-2023 - Released
I actually bought the Atari 2600 cartridge of this game (shown above) about a month ago! I played the heck out of the Atari version back in my youth. It doesn't have the bonus round or the circus music, but it got pretty challenging after you'd been going for awhile. The bullet eating ducks would get faster and more frequent as you went along, and it got easier to accidentally shoot the bullet remover in the bonus area when things got frantic. I honestly would have never thought of this for PICO-8 either, but now that you've done it, I can't believe how well it fits!
Awesome demake of an obscure title. I got 2990 points before running out of bullets.
(I love that you can shoot the music note to toggle the music.)
Love it. I had this on the VCS decades ago. Really perfect demake. But we're talking about Atari 2600 so is this really a demake? It looks better than the original!
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