Circus Caper
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| Circus Caper | |
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 North American cover art | |
| Developer(s) | Advance Communication Company[1] |
| Publisher(s) | Toho |
| Producer(s) | Junichi Tsunoda, Kazuhiko Yamamoto[2] |
| Designer(s) | Takashi Wachi |
| Programmer(s) | Toru Nakagawa |
| Artist(s) | Yuko Morita Marina Takase |
| Composer(s) | Michiharu Hasuya Osamu Kasai Masaaki Harada |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo Entertainment System |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Platform[1] |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Circus Caper, known as Moeru! Onīsan (燃える！お兄さん, lit. "Burn! Older Brother") in Japan,[3] is the title of a side-scrolling Nintendo Entertainment System video game where the player controls a young boy on a quest to save his sister who has been kidnapped by the circus. The game was released in 1989 by Toho and received poor reviews.
In Circus Caper, a boy named Tim takes his sister Judy to a circus show. However, the two siblings can't afford to enter. A clown offers the children tickets if they beat him in a dice game. After beating him, the clown says there is only one ticket left, so Tim lets his sister go in. After the show, Tim goes to pick up his sister, and is greeted by Mr. Magic, who has kidnapped her. Tim then enters the circus to try and rescue his sister. At the end of the game, Judy reveals to Tim that she was going to be used as a knife-throwing target, and the two go home.
In the Japanese version, based on the anime Moeru! Oniisan, Yukie has been kidnapped by Dra Gon, a dragon. It is up to Kenichi and his friends Hidou, Rocky, and Shiranui to save her. Many characters from the anime appear in the show, including Duck Nicholson, as well as the Narrator talking in the cutscenes. At the end of the game, it is revealed Dra Gon was actually Duck Nicholson in disguise.