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Data East was, incidentally, the first game company to use kana on screen.
He developed the idea for the game when working at the Ramtek Corporation when he was developing his first video game titled Clean Sweep which had a similar approach to Circus with eliminating objects on a screen.
Exidy was founded in 1973 and first made video games that were variants on Pong and found success with their game Death Race (1976).
Ivy said that "of all the games we did, [Circus] was the one that made the most profit.
"Balloon popping game" Data East)
The popularity of the game led Exidy to manufacture and supply printed circuit boards for several companies including Sega who renamed the game Seesaw Jump, Midway who released it as Clowns and Taito who released it as Acrobat.
Computer and Video Games magazine reviewed the Atari VCS version in 1989, giving it an 82% score.
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