History VideoGame / Carnival

''Carnival'' is a 1980 fixed shooter arcade game by Creator/{{Sega}}, which was ported by Coleco to the UsefulNotes/Atari2600, the UsefulNotes/{{ColecoVision}}, and the UsefulNotes/{{Intellivision}}. The game replicates a shooting gallery in which you must use your gun to shoot at all the targets on the screen that appear in three rows, plus the pipes on the spinning wheel at the top, while making sure you don't run out of bullets. To complicate matters, one of the ducks on the bottom row may start flying to the bottom of the screen and chomp away at ten of your bullets if you don't finish him off fast enough!

* SpellingBonus: Hitting the letter targets that spell BONUS in order gives you whatever bonus points are left in the counter. Hitting a letter out of order causes the bonus to disappear until the next round stars.

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* SpellingBonus: Hitting the letter targets that spell BONUS in order gives you whatever bonus points are left in the counter. Hitting a letter out of order causes the bonus to disappear until the next round stars.

''Carnival'' is a 1980 fixed shooter arcade game by Creator/{{Sega}}, which was ported by Coleco to the UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}}, the UsefulNotes/{{ColecoVision}}, and the UsefulNotes/{{Intellivision}}. The game replicates a shooting gallery in which you must use your gun to shoot at all the targets on the screen that appear in three rows, plus the pipes on the spinning wheel at the top, while making sure you don't run out of bullets. To complicate matters, one of the ducks on the bottom row may start flying to the bottom of the screen and chomp away at ten of your bullets if you don't finish him off fast enough!

''Carnival'' is a 1980 fixed shooter arcade game by Creator/{{Sega}}, which was ported by Coleco to the UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}}, the UsefulNotes/{{ColecoVision}}, and the UsefulNotes/{{Intellivision}}. The game replicates a shooting gallery in which you must use your gun to shoot at all the targets on the screen that appear in three rows, plus the flags on the spinning wheel at the top, while making sure you don't run out of bullets. To complicate matters, one of the ducks on the bottom row may start flying to the bottom of the screen and chomp away at ten of your bullets if you don't finish him off fast enough!

!!This game provides examples of
* BonusStage: In all versions except the Atari 2600 version, when you complete a screen, you get a bonus stage where you must shoot a bear with a bullseye target as many times as you can before it runs offscreen.
* EasterEgg: Steve Kitchen, the programmer of the Atari 2600 version, had his name appear where the score is by hitting a special target (a one-pixel wide dot) that appeared in the game if you held down the action button to start the game just as you turn on the system.

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: "Sobre las Olas (Over the Waves)" by Juventino Rosas, a tune commonly associated with carnivals and funfairs, constantly plays throughout the game except in the Atari 2600 version. There's a musical target you can hit that will turn the music on or off if you get tired of it.

* ScoringPoints: For hitting targets. You can also earn extra bullets by shooting numbered targets that award you with 5 or 10 bullets.

* ShootingGallery
* SpellingBonus: Hitting the letter targets that spell BONUS in order gives you whatever bonus points are left in the counter.

* TheGoldenAgeOfVideoGames

A sequel called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7et0VokLl0 Razzmatazz]]'' was produced and put into test locations in Southern California, but was never officially released (though a [=ROM=] does exist and the game has been preserved that way). It consists of three stages rather than the original two, and you have five lives instead of limited bullets. The first stage closely resembles a graphical update of the original game, except you're shooting moving cans off of a fence (with bottles that spell out BONUS and ducks that try to eat your gun) and have to juggle them to make them land on a higher platform, while the other two are completely new.

* EasterEgg: Steve Kitchen, the programmer of the Atari 2600 version, had his name appear where the score is by hitting a special target that appeared in the game if you held down the action button to start the game just as you turn on the system.

** ''Razzmatazz'' plays the "Blue Danube" during the Can Shooting screen, "Stars and Stripes Forever" during the Duck Hunting screen. %% And a third tune during the Ice Bear sequence that I recognize but I don't know the name of. It might be Tchaikovsky, but I'm not sure.

'''Carnival''' is a 1980 fixed shooter arcade game by Creator/{{Sega}}, which was ported by Coleco to the UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}}, the UsefulNotes/{{ColecoVision}}, and the UsefulNotes/{{Intellivision}}. The game replicates a shooting gallery in which you must use your gun to shoot at all the targets on the screen that appear in three rows, plus the flags on the spinning wheel at the top, while making sure you don't run out of bullets. To complicate matters, one of the ducks on the bottom row may start flying to the bottom of the screen and chomp away at ten of your bullets if you don't finish him off fast enough!

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: "Sobre las Olas (Over the Waves)" by Juventino Rosas, a tune commonly associated with carnivals and funfairs, constantly plays throughout the game. There's a musical target you can hit that will turn the music on or off if you get tired of it.

* BonusStage: When you complete a screen, you get a bonus stage where you must shoot a bear with a bullseye target as many times as you can before it runs offscreen.

* ShootEmUp

* SpellingGame: Hitting the letter targets that spell BONUS in order gives you whatever bonus points are left in the counter.