Clowns and Balloons is a circus-themed video game written by Frank Cohen for Atari 8-bit computers and published in 1982 by Datasoft.

A variant of Breakout, the player moves a trampoline left and right to catch a bouncing clown who pops rows of balloons at the top of the screen with his head.

Despite the simple theme, Clowns and Balloons turned out to be great fun, and inspired hours of frenzied joystick twisting.

[8] David Plotkin of SoftSide remarked that the game is easy to play but "requires quick reflexes and considerable skill" to master and recommended the paddle rather than the joystick.

Plotkin echoed Page 6's sentiment regarding the presentation, stating: "The programmers at DataSoft understand the Atari's features very well.