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New Carnival Games: The Arcade
Published on February 3, 2019 2:13 AM
Part of the Series - Blog a Day 2019
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Get your stylus' out, it's more New Carnival Games on DS. 

bBounce-A-Round. This game is like shuffleboard solitair. You slide the puck into the rubber bumpers to land it on a grid to score points. You use the stylus. It took a bit to get the hang of it. I won 5 tickets (the lowest amount) and moved on. 

Hall of Mirrors is not a game but just a bunch of frames wherein you can see yourself via the DS camera with distortions added. 

There are several Pachinko games: Pachinko Rabbit, Circus Pachinko, and Sumo Pachinko. You use the stylus to drag a wheel that determines the power of your shot. You have little control over the direction the ball goes. You have to get the ball in buckets for points. It's mostly luck and I had little. There's a 30 second time limit too. 

Under 7 Over 31 is a game where you just let go of a ball that rolls down a slope into numbered slots. You get five balls (or was it six?) and you get the most tickets by getting under 7 or over 31. Creatively titled, this game isn't (says Yoda). 

Crab Crawl is a game exactly like Freeway for the Atari. It's also like Frogger but you don't jump. You move a crab across a busy street full of cars to the other side. There's a time limit and the more you get across, the more tickets you win. Oh, and you have to pay tickets to play all these games as well, so you better win some to keep playing. 

That, plus Going Bananas, are all the games in the Arcade Tent. Next time I explore other parts of the carnival. I wonder where the carnies are? Those are good people.   

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Posted on February 3, 2019 3:41 AM

Damn good people.

Posted on February 4, 2019 4:52 PM

I thought about running away to the circus. Maybe I can run away to the amusement park. Wonder what they call employees of a park? Amusies?

Posted on February 4, 2019 5:09 PM

College kids on vacation.  Tongue Out

Posted on February 3, 2019 1:25 PM

What do you do if you don't have any tickets at all?  How do you play?

Posted on February 4, 2019 4:47 PM

I couldn't play one of the 4 ticket games because I ran out, but I think I got back into it by playing a free game. I have to pay closer attention to that. I'm not sure if maybe I had one ticket left and got lucky or not on a 1 ticket game. 

Posted on February 3, 2019 6:42 PM

Now I want a game where you play a carnie. 

Posted on February 4, 2019 4:43 PM

You're just a customer in this but yea, that would be a cool thing. Maybe a crime story inside a circus or carnival. That would be cool. 

Posted on February 4, 2019 4:53 PM

Bounce-A-Round looks like one of those games where I could either sink hours into it or hate it. 

With the earned stickers do you exchange them for other levels, or a virtual version of an eraser like regular arcade toys?

Posted on February 5, 2019 3:35 AM

You get items to customize your character including pets that follow you around.