In 1989, ports for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MSX, and ZX Spectrum were published by Virgin Games.

[10] The home conversions of Continental Circus lack the full-on 3D and special glasses of the arcade version.

The in-game vehicle is the 1987 Camel-sponsored Honda/Lotus 99T Formula One car as driven by Ayrton Senna and Satoru Nakajima.

Due to licensing reasons, sponsor names such as "Camel" or "DeLonghi" are intentionally misspelled to prevent copyright infringement under Japanese law.

The entire collection of musical scores, sound effects, and voice clips were featured in a compilation soundtrack known as "究極TIGER -G.S.M.TAITO 2-".

[12] In Japan, Game Machine listed Continental Circus on their April 15, 1988 issue as being the third most-successful upright arcade unit of the month.

[13] In the United Kingdom, it reached number-two on the monthly Coinslot dedicated arcade game chart in 1988, behind Street Fighter.

[14] The January 1989 issue of Sinclair User gave it the award for 1988 "Cock-Up of the Year" because of the title Continental Circus appearing to spell "circuit" incorrectly.