throwing saw blades at the walker to slice him in half. The blades can be deflected with the pole. It the walker falls off by losing balance, Freddy will pick a finger off the walker's grip on the rope, causing him to fall. Human Cannonball The player assumes the role of a cannonball man in the final act, where he will be launched from a cannon into a target trampoline. The cannonball man's female assistant will put a predetermined amount of gunpowder into the cannon, and the player has to move the target to determine the distance, then set the angle of the cannon so that the cannonball man will land on the target. Freddy plays a smaller role in this act; he only gets involved if the player takes too long to decide where to land, upon which he destroys the cannon by jamming it with a cork. Endings There are two endings to the game, depending on whether or not the player manages to collect enough money to save the circus: If the player fails, the circus is demolished, and a building labeled Freddy's Towers is erected in its place. Fiendish Freddy himself appears afterwards, grinning towards the player and carrying a sign with "The End" on it. If the player succeeds, the ringmaster and the performers decide to get even with Fiendish Freddy by launching a portly diva with a seesaw. Freddy attempts to flee, only to be crushed by the fat lady. Afterwards, the Big Top o' Fun circus gets expanded, and a blimp can be seen flying through, carrying a banner with "The End" on it. Graphic violence The game's black humor was principally very dark and the violence was surprisingly graphic for a title of this period – the tightrope walker gets sliced in two through the midriff when hit by a blade, and the juggler is blown to pieces when hit by a bomb, for example. The lack of any kind of media panic in retrospect might seem surprising, although such public outrage only became common from about 1992 onwards, following the releases of Wolfenstein 3D and Mortal Kombat, which contained actual blood and gore. Critical reaction ZX Spectrum Your Sinclair awarded the game 80%, but reviewer David Wilson clearly stated that this was for the disk version – the tape version suffered from an extremely unwieldy multi-load system. CRASH awarded it 90%.