Barker Bill's Trick Shooting (NES) Guide  Fun Follies

How to Play

In each round of Fun Follies, you play a different event. There are three unique games only available in this mode: Trixie's Shot, Bill's Thrills and the Slot Machine.


Rounds 1 to 8 (2 Loops)

  1. Balloon Saloon
  2. Flying Saucers
  3. Window Pains
  4. Trixie's Shot

Round 9+ (3+ Loops)

  1. Bill's Thrills
  2. Balloon Saloon
  3. Flying Saucers
  4. Window Pains
  5. Trixie's Shot

Bonus Round: Slot Machine

In Fun Follies, Diamonds do not reward you with an extra life. Instead, collect up to 3 Diamonds during the minigames. After clearing Trixie's Shot, you can spend your Diamonds on the Slot Machine bonus round for a chance to earn lots of lives.

Trixie's Shot

Trixie walks around the stage illuminated by a spotlight. Every time she stops and poses, shoot the coins she's holding.

  • Sometimes Trixie will throw or drop the coins.
  • Sometimes the bird appears and picks up a coin.
  • Shooting Trixie counts as a miss.
  • Shooting the bird counts as a miss.

Scoring

You receive points based on how quickly you shoot the coin after Trixie reveals it (between 100 points and 500 points).

  • You always get 500 points for a coin that Trixie has thrown or dropped.
  • You always get 500 points for a coin being carried by the bird.
  • Shoot all the coins in the Round to earn a bonus 5000 points.
Trixie's Shot screenshot

10000 Point Bonus

Sometimes Trixie does a pose where she holds one coin up and one coin down while winking. Shoot the coin she's holding up within 0.2 seconds for a 10000 point bonus.

Screenshot of Trixie's pose that can score the super bonus

Bill's Thrills

Barker Bill throws five items off the top of the screen. You have to shoot the item as it falls back down. If you don't, it will land on Trixie's head!

  • Allowing an item to land on Trixie's head counts as a miss.
  • Shooting the bird counts as a miss.

Scoring

Each item Bill throws is worth a different amount of points.

Round Watermelon
Watermelon
Tomato
Tomato
Egg
Egg
Diamond
Diamond
9 300 points 800 points 1500 points N/A
14+ 500 points 1000 points 2000 points N/A

If you shoot all five items, you get a Perfect bonus of 5000 points.

Bill's Thrills screenshot

Slot Machine

A chance to earn extra lives. Fire your Zapper to stop each tumbler.

  • Match three Trixies for 7 extra lives.
  • Match three Bills for 5 extra lives.
  • Match three dogs for 3 extra lives.

If you match more than one row, then the lives are added together. To match more than one row, you must collect Diamonds during the other rounds:

  • 1 Diamond gives you a chance to match the middle horizontal row only.
  • 2 Diamonds give you a chance to match all three horizontal rows.
  • 3 Diamonds give you a chance to match all three horizontal rows and the 2 diagonal rows.
Slot Machine screenshot

Difficulty

The difficulty for the three main games rises over time.


Balloon Saloon


Flying Saucers


Window Pains