Circus Caper

Circus Caper
Also known as: Moero! Oniisan (JP) Developer: Advance Communication Publisher: Toho Platform: NES Released in JP: August 8, 1989 Released in US: July 1990 This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden level select.

By the same team that brought you Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Circus Caper is an action game that was released in 1990. While ACC was developing RPGs for the Japanese market (Ys II, Ys III, Last Armageddon, Sansara Naga), they were also developing action games for the US market (Dynowarz, Tiger Road, Super Godzilla).

Circus Caper is a localization of ACC's 1989 game Moeru! Oniisan, based on the anime and manga of the same name. In the game, you play as Tim, a young boy who must save his sister Judy from the evil clutches of Mr. Magic.

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Regional Differences Circus Caper was originally an RPG?!

Disabled Debug Features

The Game Genie code AANNNNNY re-enables simple debugging features. During the game, you can press Start to skip the current level. Pressing A before starting a new game makes you invincible and pressing B will take you directly to the ending.

Unused Top Border

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During gameplay, in both versions of the game, there is a top of the HUD border that is cut off of the screen. It can be enabled by playing the game in PAL mode.

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