Bad Day on the Midway

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Bad Day on the Midway
Studio Cryptic Corporation
Publisher Inscape
Senior Developer Jim Ludtke
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 October 31, 1995
platform Microsoft Windows , Mac OS
genre Adventure
Game mode Single player
medium CD-ROM
language English
Age rating
USK approved from 16

Bad Day on the Midway is an Adventure - computer game , which under the leadership of the avant-garde band The Residents was developed and 1995 for Windows - and MacOS was published calculator.

action

Bad Day on the Midway is set in a shabby amusement park that a boy named Timmy enters despite his parents' prohibition and whose role is taken over by the player. The player can take over the meeting with another person. The course of the game depends on chance and a more or less lucky hand in choosing the people in whose role you slip from. Talking and changing people can teach you a lot about people and their relationships. However, you also run the risk of dying from an epidemic, from a paranoid killer who shoots arrows from a blowpipe, or from deceitfully set traps. The aim of the game is to survive the day.

Production notes

In 1994 the band released a CD-ROM called Freak Show which also featured scenes with Prince . However, this was not a computer game, but an art project. The sequel was a computer game that The Residents have given their style, according to a review by Entertainment Weekly . The artists David McKean and Jim Ludtke worked on the game.

The character Timmy from the video game later appeared in other productions by the band The Residents . An American Nazi named Ike appears in the game, but all swastikas have been removed in the European version . A shooting gallery called Kill a Commie in which communist figures are shot is still included in the European version.

The game's soundtrack was released on the album Have a Bad Day . Among the titles there is also the eponymous title Bad Day on the Midway and the song Timmy . Some scenes from the game were released on the Icky Flix DVD .

Ron Howard and David Lynch tried to port the computer game as a television series, but the project was dropped after two years of planning.

reception

reviews
publication Rating
GameSpot 8.1 / 10

The computer game magazine PC Power gave the game an overall rating of 86%. The GameSpot website gave the game an 8.1 out of 10.

Awards

  • 1995: People's Choice Awards at the Macromedia International User Conference in 1995 for the particularly innovative use of multimedia elements.
  • 1996: Excerpts from the game were presented at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Bad Day on the Midway - Review. (No longer available online.) In: adventurearchiv.de. Archived from the original on October 20, 2013 ; accessed on October 20, 2013 (German).
  2. ^ A b The Residents' Bad Day on the Midway Review - News Reviews and News - EW.com. In: ew.com. Retrieved October 20, 2013 .
  3. ↑ a b c DER SPIEGEL 10/1996 - Damn lousy day. In: spiegel.de. Retrieved on October 20, 2013 (German).
  4. ^ A b Bad Day on the Midway. In: adventureclassicgaming.com. Retrieved October 20, 2013 .
  5. ↑ theresidents - YouTube. In: youtube.com. Retrieved October 20, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Have a Bad Day - The Residents - Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards - AllMusic. In: allmusic.com. Retrieved October 20, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Icky Flix (DVD) - The Residents - Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards - AllMusic. In: allmusic.com. Retrieved October 20, 2013 .
  8. ↑ http://www.thecityofabsurdity.com/midway.html
  9. ^ A b The Residents Bad Day on the Midway Review - GameSpot. In: gamespot.com. Retrieved October 20, 2013 .
  10. ↑ A Videogame to Tempt The Sundance Cineastes - New York Times. In: nytimes.com. Retrieved October 20, 2013 .