Bad Day on the Midway
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| Developer(s) | inSCAPE |
| Publisher(s) | inSCAPE |
| Designer(s) | Jim Ludtke |
| Release date(s) | October 31, 1995 |
| Genre(s) | First-person Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Platform(s) | Windows, Mac |
| Media | CD |
| System requirements | Win 3.1+, 486DX 33 MHz CPU, 8MB RAM Mac: System 7.1+, 68030 33Mhz CPU, 8MB RAM |
| Input | Mouse, keyboard |
Bad Day on the Midway is a CD-ROM game designed and scored by The Residents and a number of other graphic artists. The game allowed the player to switch from character to character in order to solve a number of puzzles: what put the park's owner in a coma? Who is killing off the carnies? Is it possible to keep the I.R.S. from closing everything down?
The graphics appear dated now, but in its time the game's level of play was quite innovative for a point-and-click adventure game.
The game was optioned by Ron Howard at Imagine Television for a proposed series to be directed by David Lynch. After two years of meetings with Lynch, the project was dropped because a script was never agreed upon. Of note is that, if the project had happened, The Residents would have not been creatively involved as their contract only gave them consulting roles in the pilot (the first show.)
The character Timmy was later brought back in a series of short videos by the Residents.
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| The Residents | |
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| Album era (1972-1980) | |
| Meet the Residents (1974) | Not Available (1974, released 1978) | The Third Reich 'n' Roll (1976) | Fingerprince (1976) | Duck Stab/Buster & Glen (1978) | Eskimo (1979) | The Commercial Album (1980) | |
| Performance era (1981-1990) | |
| Mark of the Mole (1981) | The Tunes of Two Cities (1982) | Intermission (1983) | George & James (1984) | Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats? (1984) | The Big Bubble (1985) | Stars & Hank Forever (1986) | God in Three Persons (1988} | The King & Eye (1989) | |
| Multimedia era (1991-1996) | |
| Freak Show (1991) | Gingerbread Man (1994) | Bad Day on the Midway (1995) | Have A Bad Day (1997) | |
| Band era (1997-2005) | |
| Wormwood (1998) | Icky Flix (2001) | Demons Dance Alone (2002) | Animal Lover (2005) | |
| Storyteller era (2006-present) | |
| The River of Crime (2006) | Timmy (2006) | Tweedles (2006) | |
| Related articles | |
| Snakefinger | N. Senada | Vileness Fats | Ralph Records | |
