Total Carnage

Total Carnage
Developer(s)	Midway Games
Publisher(s)	Midway Games
Designer(s)	Mark Turmell
Platform(s)	Arcade
Release	1992
Genre(s)	Run and gun/Multi-directional shooter
Mode(s)	Up to 2 players, playing simultaneously
Arcade system	Midway Y Unit hardware Main CPU: TMS34010 (@ 6.25 MHz) Sound CPU: M6809 (@ 2 MHz) Sound Chips: Yamaha YM2151 FM (@ 3.57958 MHz), DAC (@ 3.57958 MHz), OKI MSM6295 ADPCM

Total Carnage is a shooter, developed by Mark Turmell for Midway in 1992. The game was released for the SNES. Later game was re-released in 2004, as part of Midway Arcade Treasures 2 for the Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox and Nintendo Gamecube game consoles. In 2005, an Atari Jaguar version was released by Songbird Productions, nearly ten years after work on the game originally began.

Story

In Total Carnage, an evil Middle Eastern dictator named General Akhboob closes off his country to the rest of the world following a war in 1999. Hundreds of reporters flocked to the zone in hopes of getting a real scoop. Unfortunately for them, one of the reporters discovers that there's more than baby milk being made at the Baby Milk Factory.

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Introduction screen

General Akhboob kills the reporter and captures all the remaining reporters in his country. It turns out that General Akhboob has been building an army of mutants and a stockpile of chemical weapons. He's also holding several American reporters captive. It is up to the Doomsday Squad, composed of Captain Carnage (Player 1) and Major Mayhem (Player 2), to invade Akhboob's base, wipe out his forces, destroy Orcus, rescue all the hostages and capture Akhboob.

Along the way, Captain Carnage and Major Mayhem fight various mutants and monsters and eventually General Ahkboob himself. Ahkboob transforms into several forms, including a series of three giant heads.

Jon Hey followed up his sound creation for Smash TV with the sound and music for Total Carnage, the gunfire in the introduction screen intentionally sounds like a toy machine gun. Ed Boon, who created Mortal Kombat for Midway along with John Tobias, was the voice of General Akhboob.

Influence

The enemy organization is loosely based on Saddam Hussein's Iraq during the Persian Gulf War, with a reference to the Baby Milk Factory in the opening cutscene.