*Not be mistaken with an unusual case of Circus Libido (and apologies for anyone reading this who was searching for said condition...)
Circus Lido is a very tidy piece of PC Engine programming and an accomplished action title well suited to the playform in a genre sadly not as widely covered these days. Control a green lizard who must eat insects and spit them out into plants in order to progress, hindered by the fact you can only use your tail to climb the fiendishly designed levels.
So all well there - our reason for covering it is the fact that copies used to sell for a bundle of greenbacks, a treasure chest of Yen and a wheelbarrow of Pounds. It turned out though that it has after all enjoyed a good print run. It just snuck under the radar being rumoured to have been distributed through libraries. This was proven when in the new millennium when shed loads of the game were discovered. And as economics will teach us when the supply is plentiful, the price comes down. We can't help but wonder how so many copies of the game were held back. Perhaps that Gremlins - style second hand store with the sealed boxes of Radiant Silverguns is just around the corner in Japan... ?
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