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- By IPDB
- gameplay_feature
- Gameplay feature
- Mechanical Backbox Animations
- Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #4059
Specialty: [...] Mechanical Backbox Animation
- By Flipcommons Catalog
- gameplay_feature
- Gameplay feature
- Pop-Up Toys
- Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #4059
The Ringmaster is an animated head that elevates from the underside of the playfield
- By Flipcommons Catalog
- gameplay_feature
- Gameplay feature
- Disappearing Bumpers
- Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #4059
The "Boom Balloon" pop bumper (on the lower right side of the playfield) is a disappearing bumper, dropping down until its flat plastic top is level with the playfield.
- By Flipcommons Catalog
The player defeats the elevating Ringmaster head by hitting it with the pinball, so it is a bash toy.
- gameplay_feature
- Gameplay feature
- Bash Toys
- Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #4059
The Ringmaster is an animated head that elevates from the underside of the playfield and makes wise cracks at the player, who tries to defeat him by hitting him with the pinball in various modes.
- By Flipcommons Catalog
A ball permanently trapped in a cage that the ball in play strikes is a captive ball.
- gameplay_feature
- Gameplay feature
- Captive Ball
- Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #4059
The menagerie ball, a large plastic ball trapped within a cage above the left slingshot, can be hit by the ball in play and disrupts ball direction.
- By Flipcommons Catalog
- gameplay_feature
- Gameplay feature
- Ball Locks
- Planetary Pinball — https://www.planetarypinball.com/mm5/Williams/games/cirqus/rules.html
LOCK balls up the HIGHWIRE ramp, then start HW Multiball. [...] Rollover Buttons add VOLTAGE to CHARGE the BOOM BALLOON.
- gameplay_feature
- Gameplay feature
- Ramps
- Planetary Pinball — https://www.planetarypinball.com/mm5/Williams/games/cirqus/rules.html
LOCK balls up the HIGHWIRE ramp, then start HW Multiball. [...] Rollover Buttons add VOLTAGE to CHARGE the BOOM BALLOON.
- gameplay_feature
- Gameplay feature
- Multiball
- Planetary Pinball — https://www.planetarypinball.com/mm5/Williams/games/cirqus/rules.html
LOCK balls up the HIGHWIRE ramp, then start HW Multiball. [...] Rollover Buttons add VOLTAGE to CHARGE the BOOM BALLOON.
- gameplay_feature
- Gameplay feature
- Rollover Buttons
- Planetary Pinball — https://www.planetarypinball.com/mm5/Williams/games/cirqus/rules.html
LOCK balls up the HIGHWIRE ramp, then start HW Multiball. [...] Rollover Buttons add VOLTAGE to CHARGE the BOOM BALLOON.
- By Flipcommons Catalog
- game_format
- Pinball
- Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #4059
Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Slingshots (2), Stop magnets (3), Standup targets (9), Kick-out holes (2), Spinning targets (2), Speech, Playfield-mounted dot matrix display.
- gameplay_feature
- Gameplay feature
- Speech
- Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #4059
Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Slingshots (2), Stop magnets (3), Standup targets (9), Kick-out holes (2), Spinning targets (2), Speech, Playfield-mounted dot matrix display.
- By Flipcommons Catalog
- production_status
- Produced
- Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #4059
The sample game pictured in this listing has several playfield differences from the production games that followed.
- By OPDB
- abbreviation
- CV
- display_type
- Dot Matrix Display
- name
- Cirqus Voltaire
- opdb_id
- GRVjJ-MLq7W
- player_count
- 4
- production_month
- reverted by OPDB : OPDB defaulted a year-only manufacture date to January 1, so its January carries no month information; IPDB records a real month. Retracted as an ingest refinement so that month resolves.
- 10 → 1
- production_year
- 1997
- technology_generation
- Solid State
- By IPDB
- abbreviation
- Value
- CV
- credit
- John Popadiuk — Design
- credit
- Cameron Silver — Design
- credit
- Linda Deal (aka Doane) — Art
- credit
- Adam Rhine — Dots/Animation
- credit
- Brian Morris — Dots/Animation
- credit
- Jack Skalon — Mechanics
- credit
- Louis Toy — Mechanics
- credit
- Rob Berry — Music
- credit
- Dave Zabriskie — Music
- credit
- Rob Berry — Sound
- credit
- Cameron Silver — Software
- gameplay_feature
- Gameplay feature
- Flippers
- Count
- 2
- gameplay_feature
- Gameplay feature
- Pop Bumpers
- Count
- 3
- gameplay_feature
- Gameplay feature
- Slingshots
- Count
- 2
- gameplay_feature
- Gameplay feature
- Stop Magnets
- Count
- 3
- gameplay_feature
- Gameplay feature
- Standup Targets
- Count
- 9
- gameplay_feature
- Gameplay feature
- Kick-Out Holes
- Count
- 2
- gameplay_feature
- Gameplay feature
- Spinning Targets
- Count
- 2
- ipdb_id
- 4059
- ipdb_rating
- 8.1
- manufacturer_model_identifier
- 50062
- player_count
- 4
- production_month
- 10
- production_quantity
- 2704
- production_year
- 1997
- system
- Williams WPC-95
- technology_generation
- Solid State
- theme
- Circus
- By Flipcommons Catalog
- corporate_entity
- Midway Manufacturing Company, a subsidiary of WMS Industries, Incorporated (1988-1996)
- credit
- Person
- Cameron Silver
- Role
- Design
- credit
- Person
- John Popadiuk
- Role
- Design
- credit
- Person
- Linda Deal (aka Doane)
- Role
- Art
- credit
- Person
- Adam Rhine
- Role
- Dots/Animation
- credit
- Person
- Brian Morris
- Role
- Dots/Animation
- credit
- Person
- Jack Skalon
- Role
- Mechanics
- credit
- Person
- Louis Toy
- Role
- Mechanics
- credit
- Person
- Dave Zabriskie
- Role
- Music
- credit
- Person
- Rob Berry
- Role
- Music
- credit
- Person
- Rob Berry
- Role
- Sound
- credit
- Person
- Cameron Silver
- Role
- Software
- display_type
- Dot Matrix Display
- ipdb_id
- 4059
- name
- Cirqus Voltaire
- opdb_id
- GRVjJ-MLq7W
- slug
- cirqus-voltaire
- technology_generation
- Solid State
- theme
- Theme
- Carnivals
- theme
- Theme
- Circus
- title
- Cirqus Voltaire