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retrocgads · 11 months
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USA 1990
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lesserknownwaifus · 10 months
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The lovely Lisa from Fiendish Freddy's Big Top o' Fun.
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GOG free game: "Fiendish Freddy's Big Top o' Fun"
GOG and Throwback Entertainment team up for a special publisher sale and Gray Matter Inc.’s crazy mini-games collection Fiendish Freddy’s Big Top o’ Fun as a freebie. It’s only been three months since I covered Fiendish Freddy’s Big Top o’ Fun in the GOG releases 3 more games from Throwback Entertainment article, but it was a title that really stuck out from the other two mainly because of the…
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retro-games-slovakia · 11 months
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Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O'Fun
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I had no idea what to expect from such a long game name. But I didn't expect that it would be a circus and I would do different disciplines in it. In addition, great circus music, funny sounds, but especially animations. All placed on the cartridge along with other games. Well, just great.
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Publisher: Gray Matter, Mindscape Released: 1990 (33 years ago) Controls: Joystick, Keyboard Number of Players: 5 Genre: Sport Rating: - Graphics: 9 / 10 - Music: 8 / 10 - Sound: 7 / 10 - Total: 10 / 10
Review: https://retro-games-slovakia.web.app/show-game/c64-fiendish-freddy-s-big-top-o-fun
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randomisedgaming · 4 years
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Front and back for the North American box of the classic 1989 Amiga game from Mindscape:
Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O' Fun
Best described as an outrageously funny take on the mini-game genre with a dark sense of humour. One of the best looking games on the Amiga when it arrived. Long over due a modern update, but will that ever happen.
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Fiendish Freddy's Big Top o' Fun
“Will he make a bozo out of you?” (Video Games & Computer Entertainment #11, Dec. 1989)
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domidextrus · 3 years
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Okay, so considering Strong Bad’s about to Let’s Play the games that were name-dropped on the floppy disks in his SBEmails, these games will be next (not necessarily in that order) on Disk 4 of 12. (Game titles with a strikethrough have already been covered.)
LONG LIST AHEAD!!
FriendlyWare PC Introductory Set
World Games
Vampire's Castle Adventure (Technically not a game that was referenced on the desk's floppy box. Strong Bad picked it because it was the main inspiration for Thy Dungeonman.)
Tongue of the Fatman (aka Mondu’s Fight Palace, aka Slaughter Sport)
Lode Runner
Loom
Starflight
Rise of the Dragon
Manhunter: New York
Odell Lake
The 7th Guest
Tass Times in Tonetown
One on One
Out of this World (aka Another World)
Nitemare 3D
Nobunaga’s Ambition
Seicross
Bio Menace
Maniac Mansion
HyperBlade
BAAL
Caveman Ugh-lympics
Some classic Tengen games
Alone in the Dark
Bushido
Thexder
Lunar Lander
Deathtrack
Spy VS Spy
Future Wars
Miner 2049er
Battle Chess
Colorado
Fiendish Freddy’s Big Top o’ Fun
Marble Craze
Karateka
The Newsroom
Wraith
Crush, Crumble & Chomp
Dunjonquest: Curse of Ra
Genghis Khan
Low G Man
Axe of Rage (aka Barbarian II: Dungeons of Drax)
Swashbuckler
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Gold Rush
Codename: ICEMAN
Below the Root
Weird Dreams
Some classic Brøderbund games
California Games
The Legend of Kyrandia games
MasterType
Silpheed
BioForge
Low Blow
Drakkhen
Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty
LHX: Attack Chopper
Dark Seed
Rise of the Triad
The Colonel's Bequest
The Ancient Art of War
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
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Heart of China
Ballistix
Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams
4-D Boxing (aka 4D Sports Boxing)
The Secret of Monkey Island
Return to Zork
Relentless (aka Little Big Adventure)
Mutant League Football
Flashback: The Quest for Identity
RAMA
MegaRace
Icon: Quest for the Ring
Some other games/software that had also been referenced but remains to be seen whether they’ll also be showcased:
King’s Quest II & Police Quest II (were on barely-legible floppies in Puppet Time, Brothers Chaps confirmed the names on the floppies in DVD commentary, unsure of whether that counts)
Shogun (appeared in Strong Bad Is In Jail Cartoon, unsure of whether that counts)
War of the Ring (appeared in the DVD menu of strongbad_email.exe Disc Two, unsure of whether that counts)
The Oregon Trail 1 & 2 (appeared in Main Page 22, unsure of whether that counts)
Hunt the Wumpus (appeared in the 2005 April Fools toon, unsure of whether that counts)
Cakewalk (not a game, but a MIDI sequencer)
Logo (not a game, but a programming language)
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humor-y-videojuegos · 3 years
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Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O' Fun Año: 1989 Plataformas: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, PC
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ordinaryoddness · 4 years
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As the fearful 40′s approach, with either a promise of new adventures or, well, that one way walk into the sea of trees, I find myself, as most sad, nearly middle-aged people do, by looking at a long-gone past with mostly rose-tinted glasses. 
I have a lot of time to look back as I’m currently at the mercy of a nasty clash of clans battle between House Anxiety and House Depression. As they fight it out to see who will claim ownership for my mental breakdown, I’ll drink in as many fond memories as possible.
Which segues awkwardly into the Commodore and its ‘Playful Intelligence’ pack.
My Dad got this for us three kids and we all couldn’t get enough of it. Not only did it run games from tapes but it had a cartridge slot with four decent games on it, two of which Flimbo and Freddy were the ones we all enjoyed the most.
‘Fiendish Freddy’s Big Top o’ Fun ‘was basically a mad series of circus events that you either performed to a decent standard or, well, died. Nightmarish clowns would rank you out of ten whilst Freddy would consider try to murder you either by throwing you off course on either a dive or a tight tope walk or throwing bombs at you during the wheel of death. Freddy, it revealed, was working with shady businessmen to get rid of the circus. You could probably make a home-brew version with Trump in the title roll. 
‘Flimbo’s Quest’ was basic but had a lot of things going for it. It was one of those games where you had to earn the right to see the next level. My Dad used to play it when we were all in bed. He’d tell us about the later levels he’d seen and once told us about a big dragon. From then on, we pretty much insisted he played it while we watched. What teeny, tough taskmasters we were. It’s  not like the man didn’t have enough going on with his double life of Post Office manager and Singer (His real job was the latter)
Not that my Dad wasn’t used to taking the proverbial reins when we couldn’t get past certain bits on those now vintage computer games. He powered through ‘Fire Ant’ on the C16 as we screamed uncontrollably around him. It must have been like trying to land a plane, with all that panic and that clunky old joystick. ‘Fire Ant’ was a tense old game. All those scorpions trying to sting you to death whilst you stole eggs and built bridges (?). We would rope him into ‘Icicle Works’ too and that was complete madness. 
It’s crazy, when you’re a kid, you think that adults can do anything because they have some years on you. I know how ridiculous that is now that I’m a fully grown adult and I can barely keep myself together. I still find myself getting my parents to do things that I find difficult. 
So what is the point of this whole thing? It’s just more words imprinted on the internet, lost in an ocean of fan fiction and angry letters about TV shows.  
There’s no point, of course. I can’t go back and replay those moments and it’s not likely that I will share such memories with children of my own. I wouldn’t honestly inflict such a potentially woeful (and woe-filled) Father on young Rodimus Bate*. I’m a barely serviceable Uncle.
Besides, I still tie my shoes the same way my Dad taught me so there isn’t anything new to teach a child of my own. Nothing has changed enough to have children and ‘Fire Ant’ isn’t a thing anymore.  
People sometimes say to me, “How can you remember that?”. The answer is simple. Why wouldn’t I? Everything has mostly been a blur since I ‘grew up’. The only thing that keeps me moving is the people around me. I’ve only ever been as good as the people around me. That’s why I never like to say goodbye to anyone.
Anyway, the C64 was great fun and if you can at least track down ‘Fiendish Freddy’ on an emulator, you should. 
BE WELL.
(*name TBC)
P.S ‘KLAX’ was okay. ‘International Soccer’ was basic. You kicked a plus sign around. 
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dazstormretro · 5 years
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Swapping my Sega for an Amiga - April 1992
Robs homemade arcade cabinet has been getting plenty of action during the spring of 92. With games such as Budokan, Dick Tracey and Shadow Dancer testing our arcade skills to the max the Mega Drive was still keeping me and my loyal Sega mates content. At home I had borrowed an obscure title called Magical Flying Turbo Hat Adventure from someone at school. I’d never heard of this game prior to playing it but as I made my way through this side-scrolling platformer I soon realised it was a reskin of Psycho Fox, a game I had previously owned on the Master System.
It was now approaching Easter and with two weeks off school it was time for our biennial sleepover at my grandparents house. Once again me, my brother and younger cousin Gary spent a few days eating way too much food, drinking plenty of Panda Pops and playing on my Mega Drive.
The Christmas of 1991 my cousin had upgrading from his old Commodore 64 to an Amiga 500.
It was on the last day at my grans house that Gary had a proposition for me, would I be interested in swapping my Sega Mega Drive with his Amiga for a couple of weeks?
A while back I had briefly played on my cousin Stuart’s Amiga during a family party. With the adults drinking downstairs my brother and I were invited by Stuart to play Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O' Fun. I remember at the time being very impressed by the graphics and sound so I understood how powerful the Amiga could be.
Feeling excited at this prospect of a brand new gaming system in my house we hurriedly phoned for permission. Our parents agreed on the short term swap so that evening Gary’s parents fetched with them his boxed Amiga 500 and a big plastic case of floppy disks.
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The following day I got to work plugging up the Amiga 500 in my bedroom. The first thing that struck me was the size of this wedge shaped computer, it was a beast. The power supply unit alone weighed more than my Mega Drive. I hadn’t used a home computer since the 464 so it took some time before I got my head around the initial set up and disk loading. I must admit it was s fine looking piece of kit, this thing meant business. Included were two Competition Pro joysticks and a mouse.
Next I opened the plastic disk holder and couldn’t believe the amount of games, there must have been over a hundred different titles (most of them pirated of course). This was certainly one of those wow moments from my childhood. I had one of the most popular home computers in my bedroom with stacks of games and it was the Easter holidays, this was going to be amazing.
For the next four weeks I delved head first into the world of the Amiga. Being used to owning only a handful of games on my past consoles, suddenly having access to this many titles was amazing if not slightly overwhelming. Playing such classics as Fire and Ice, Rick Dangerous 2, Alien Breed and SWIV. I remember loving Robocop 3, especially the first person shooting sections. Then there was my introduction to Lemmings and Xenon 2 with its amazing music by Bomb the Bass.
Rob would often come over to mine to take me on at Panza Kick Boxing or team up to play Speedball 2, still to this day whenever I hear someone shout ‘ice cream’ it makes me smile. Another firm favourite was Jimmy White's 'Whirlwind' Snooker trying to master the many trick shots.
I couldn’t get enough of the Amiga even going as far as to buy a copy of Amiga Action so I could play the free cover disk. I went through so many great games that month, but two games created by LucasArts would leave the biggest impression on me.
Of course these games were the Curse of Monkey Island and it’s sequel, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. Being a console owner I had never heard of the Monkey Island series so I was pleasantly surprised when I realised they were in fact Point and Click adventures like Maniac Mansion, only these games would take the genre to a whole new level.
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Inserting the first of four floppy disks I was soon transported to the swashbuckling world of Guybrush Threepwood. Within minutes of taking control of this lovable but floored protagonist I was hooked. The graphics were amazing, the puzzles genius and the writing laugh out load funny. This was my first memory of a game taking me on an actual adventure where I would be carried along with the story and care about the onscreen characters. Within days I had completed the Curse of Monkey Island and instantly loaded up the sequel.
This time the game was spread over eleven floppy disks, this must be a good sign I thought, and it was. Monkey Island 2 was even better than the first. The visuals had been vastly improved, the jokes funnier, the music more immersive and the whole experience even more gripping and cinematic than the first. It goes without saying that I basically locked myself away until I had seen this game through until the end.
That chance encounter with such a magical franchise made me a lifelong fan of LucasArts and similar Point and Click adventures, so much so I would later go on to purchase Full Throttle, Fate of Atlantis and Toonstruck featuring Christoper Lloyd to play on my dads PC.
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By mid May it was time to return Gary’s Amiga and be reunited with my Mega Drive. What a fantastic four weeks it had been. Being able to experience such an awesome piece of hardware, one of which I would have never had the chance to own was amazing. So to was playing such a vast array of games. Being a console owner and paying up to £45 per title made new game buying very difficult. I had to be certain my new purchase was the perfect choice so often didn’t stray too far from what I already knew. My time with the Amiga had allowed me to play games like Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Kick Off 2, Prince of Persia and a whole host of games I would never normally play.
My two recent experiences of both Garys Amiga 500 and Bens Nintendo had opened my eyes to the possibilities of different systems, maybe Sega wasn’t the centre of the gaming universe after all? My whole attitude towards video games was changing, my mind now more willing to accept the bigger picture. This in turn would effect my next console purchase.
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thundard · 6 years
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Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O' Fun [UP.45] Amiga
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yannosh51-blog-blog · 6 years
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Je tente de sauver un cirque de la faillite !! Vais je réussir à sauver le cirque de Fiendish Freddy Big Top o fun sur Amiga ???? ALERTE SPOILER :
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retrocgads · 6 years
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UK 1990
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UK 1990
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