Developer: Mike Lorenzen
Mike Lorenzen programmed for both Atari and Activision. At Atari he wrote Circus Atari in 1980, a paddle game where two clowns bounce off a seesaw to pop balloons. He turned the comb of black lines seen on many 2600 screens into blocks the clowns jump out of. At Activision he designed Oink!, a 1983 Three Little Pigs game that won the Arkie Award for Most Humorous Video Game.
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Circus Atari
Circus Atari is a 1980 paddle game from Atari, programmed by Mike Lorenzen. You slide a seesaw along the bottom of the screen so that two acrobatic clowns can take turns flying up to pop rows of balloons.…
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