History Pinball / CirqusVoltaire

** Play the game right, and you get to face a fifth Ringmaster as a BiggerBad.

* DoWellButNotPerfect: Hoping to start the Ringmaster Battle mode? It can actually be difficult to defeat the Ringmaster five times without achieving the other marvels in the process, which activates Join The Cirqus and resets your Ringmaster progress.

* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: The Ringmasters, right down to having the same voice.

As the title indicates, the game takes place in an electricity-themed ''avant garde'' circus, and the player is an aspiring performer who wishes to join this eclectic crew. To do this, he must perform nine Marvels, then prove his mastery of the show by completing the multi-stage WizardMode. Along the way, he will impress the Jugglers, prance with the Highwire Multiball, pop the Boom! Balloon, fire the cannon in the backbox, roll the Menagerie Ball, and challenge the four Ringmasters when they rise from the playfield. But if he perseveres and Joins The Cirqus, perhaps he will unmask Ringmaster Voltaire and be crowned as the Party Champion.

** Many of the "Fun With Bonus" judges, which include [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Rincewind]], Music/{{Tommy}}, and [[Series/JudgeJudy Judy]].

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The backglass depicts a visibly feminine person with a spring for a body, holding a green mask in one hand.

* EverythingsBetterWithCows:
** One of the obstacles Roonie jumps over is a cow.
** The history of the Cirqus mentions fire-eating cows.
** One of the "Fun With Bonus" judges is a cow named "Heffer".
** A cow can be heard mooing while fighting the Ringmaster. Cows can also be seen in the DMD animations if this happens.
** There's a cow on the backglass, above the acrobat on the right side.
** Entering the initials “MOO” results in the Ringmaster mooing.

* {{Expy}}: ''Cirqus Voltaire'' is obviously inspired by ''Creator/CirqueDuSoleil''.

* MatchSequence: A clown walks across the display and gets knocked down by a pie, with the splatter forming the match digits.

* GodivaHair: The ''Pinball FX 3'' digital rendition of the table applies this trope on images of a female performer on the backglass and inlanes due to censorship of suggestive imagery.

->'''Announcer''': "Welcome to the greatest pinball on earth!"

* RepulsiveRingmaster: There's four of them that must be challenged.

A digital version of ''Cirqus Voltaire'' was formerly available for ''VideoGame/ThePinballArcade'' before the license to the Bally/Williams tables expired on July 1, 2018; to mimic the multitude of colored accents mentioned above, you get a random color every time you load the game.

* GratuitousFrench

* RealSongThemeTune: Parts of Julius Fucik's "Entrance of the Gladiators" (AKA the "circus music") was used for its main theme.

* ShockAndAwe

* [[TakeThatAudience Take That Player]]: Many of the Ringmasters' quotes fall under this.

* ThePlace

* TakeThatPlayer: Many of the Ringmasters' quotes fall under this.

''Cirqus Voltaire'' is available for ''VideoGame/ThePinballArcade''; to mimic the multitude of colored accents mentioned above, you get a random color every time you load the game.