Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O' Fun is a game originally developed for the 16bit Atari ST, IBM PC and Commodore Amiga and later ported to the 8bit ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC home computers. Its funny and unique gameplay made it really popular, although it's significantly tough to complete the stunts!
Review
STORY / GAMEPLAY Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O' Fun is a nice black-humor sports game to play. A corrupt businessman, to whom the circus that the player owns owes $10k, arrives on the scene with the intention to demolish the circus and plans to build an array of luxury hotels on the terrain, unless our hero can pay up the debt. In a fit of desperation, the show-master organizes a display of six events to raise money for the doomed circus: diving, juggling, trapeze, knife throwing, tightrope and the human cannonball. The performance in each event is judged by five clown judges who offer money depending on the quality of the show. The businessman has no intention of letting the circus raise the cash though, and he sets his lackey, the evil Fiendish Freddy, loose to steal the show.
GRAPHICS / SOUND The C64 looks colorful and has a fast frame-rate during gameplay (the CPC version is slow) making things more playable. There is a variety of nicely detailed sprites that move fast and smooth on-screen. The introductory music is awesome and funny, taken from the original. The game also has a few cool sound effects and in-game tunes.