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Clowns (rev. 2)

  1. Game infos
  2. Parent and Clones
  3. Sound
  4. Driver
  5. Inputs
  6. Controls
  7. Display
  8. Adjusters
  9. Dipswitchs
  10. Roms list
  11. Chips list
  12. Samples list
  13. Categories
  14. MAMEinfo
  15. History
  16. High scores
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Game infos

Description Clowns (rev. 2)
Name clowns
Manufacturer Midway
Year 1978
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .033b03
Romset size 6 KB
Romset file 6 files
Romset zip 5 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Ball & Paddle

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

Sound infos

Sound_channels 1

Driver infos

Driver status imperfect
Driver emulation good
Driver color good
Driver sound imperfect
Driver graphic good
Driver cocktail
Driver protection
Driver savestate yes

Inputs infos

Input service no
Input tilt no
Input players 2
Input buttons
Input coins 1

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
paddle 1 254 100 10 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 260 224 59.541985 4992000 320 0 260 262 0 224

Dipswitchs

Adjusters

name default
R507 - Music Volume 40

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade c2.cpu 1024 154d129a 61eebb319ee3a6be598b764b295c18a93a953c1e maincpu 1400 good no
arcade d2.cpu 1024 d61b5b47 6051c0a2e81d6e975e82c2d48d0e52dc0d4723e3 maincpu 1000 good no
arcade e2.cpu 1024 9e506a36 8aad486a72d148d8b03e7bec4c12abd14e425c5f maincpu c00 good no
arcade f2.cpu 1024 00757962 ef39211493393e97284a08eea63be0757643ac88 maincpu 800 good no
arcade g2.cpu 1024 676c934b 72b681ca9ef23d820fdd297cc417932aecc9677b maincpu 400 good no
arcade h2.cpu 1024 ff4432eb 997aee1e3669daa1d8169b4e103d04baaab8ea8d maincpu 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
8080 maincpu cpu 1996800
DISCRETE discrete audio
Samples samples audio
Speaker mono audio

Samples list

name
miss

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.33b3 [Al Kossow, Brad Oliver]


Samples required


TEST MODE:

- Open Coin SW for RAM-ROM Test and close Coin SW for Springboard Alignment.


WIP:

- 0.111u4: Zsolt Vasvari and Derrick Renaud added second set of analog controls to Clowns. Changed 8080 CPU1 clock speed to 1996800 Hz. Added 2nd Player. Removed pop and bounce samples.

- 0.107u4: Mr. Do added built-in overlays for Clowns.

- 0.103u3: Bob Seidel improved dipswitches for Clowns (rev. 1 + 2). Added 'Bonus Game' dipswitch.

- 0.94u5: Derrick Renaud added discrete emulation for music, balloon popping and springboard hit and coin counter and proper watchdog. Fixed dipswitches.

- 0.66: Added Samples sound (pop, miss and bounce.wav).

- 1st March 2003: Keith Wilkins and Derrick Renaud submitted a large update to the discrete sound system, adding discrete sound to Canyon Bomber, Polaris, Sprint, Sprint 2, Ultra Tank and samples to Circus, Clowns and Sea Wolf.

- 21st January 2003: Derrick Renaud adding sample sounds (that are not yet recorded) to the Circus, Clowns and Seawolf.

- 2nd April 2005: 3D ARCADE - New 3D cabinet model for Clowns from Ed.

- 0.60: Added clone Clowns (rev. 1). Changed parent description to 'Clowns (rev. 2)'.

- 0.33b3: Al Kossow and Brad Oliver added 'Clowns' (Midway 1978).

- 24th August 1997: Kevin Klopp dumped Clowns (rev. 2).


Other Emulators:

* AAE

* Laser


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History


Arcade Video game published 41 years ago:

Clowns (c) 1978 Midway.

Players bounce clowns off 'see-saw' to break rows of balloons for high score and bonus jumps.

- TECHNICAL -

Upright cabinet
Midway No. 630

Main CPU : Intel 8080 (@ 1.9968 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Discrete circuitry

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 2

Players : 2
Control : paddle

- TRIVIA -

Clowns was released in January 1978.

Also released as "Clowns [Cocktail Table model]".

This game is known in UK as "Springboard" (licensed to Subelectro).

David Nelson holds the official record for this game with 61,390 points on June 1, 2004.

- SCORING -

Successful jump : 10 points
Popping Balloon in bottom row: 20 points
Popping Balloon in middle row : 50 points
Popping Balloon in top row : 100 points
Bonus for Clearing Bottom Balloon Row : 200 points
Bonus for Clearing Middle Balloon Row : 500 points
Bonus for Clearing Top Balloon Row : 1,000 points

- PORTS -

* COMPUTERS:
Commodore C64 (1983)

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

sawys___________________________9.770
inkilino________________________8.280
ballyballo______________________6.380