Guest review by Becki Harrington-Davis
On your first token, Carnival plays like a cutesy Space Invaders – but this fixed-shooter arcade game from Sega/Gremlin is really about manipulating bonuses to complete the stage and gain points.
In this 1980 game, you're moving left and right on a fixed track at the bottom of the screen to shoot at colorful bears, ducks and rabbits with a limited amount of ammo. The targets systematically move across the screen in three rows, moving to a lower row after they exit the screen. But unlike Space Invaders, your targets aren't all visible at all times, and they don't descend lower than the third row. With one exception, that is: the ducks.
