Carnival by Sega for ColecoVision

by The Old Fart Playing Old Games

Carnival is a fixed shooter developed by Gremlin and released by Sega in arcades in 1980. It was one of the first video games with a bonus round. The goal of the game is to shoot at targets while conserving a limited ammunition supply for as long as possible.

Carnival was ported to the Atari 2600, ColecoVision, and Intellivision by Coleco. A licensed version of the game was also ported later to the Atari 8-bit line of computers by ANALOG Software, and Acornsoft published Carnival for the BBC Micro.

This is the ColecoVision version of the game. Electronic Games, which was a popular video gaming magazine in the 80s, called the ColecoVision port of Carnival “a letter-perfect recreation of the arcade original that’s not to be missed.”