The Residents: Bad Day on the Midway (Game)

The Residents: Bad Day on the Midway

GAME » on October 31, 1995

Wander around a demented carnival and get inside the heads of several of its unsettling denizens in this 1995 computer game.

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The Residents: Bad Day on the Midway is a surreal comedic first-person adventure game developed by The Cryptic Corporation and published by Inscape (Company) for Windows PC and Macintosh computers in North America on October 31, 1995.

Designed, written, and performed by the anonymous and infamous American multimedia art rock group The Residents (Person), and a successor to The Residents: Freak Show, Bad Day on the Midway tasks players with exploring a demented carnival and interacting with its denizens. Much of the game is played as 3D CGI full-motion video cutscenes, with some story aspects drawn in various styles by guest artists.

Players start as the naive 10-year-old boy Timmy, and can switch their perspective over to other characters when they see them. Each character has their own watchable backstories, reactions to unfolding events (shown as strands of text on the screen) and their own objectives. The game includes several endings, not including the ways characters can prematurely die.

Along with an official soundtrack in 2006, the game later received a novelization in 2012. It also received an official freeware re-release in March 2022.

Soundtrack

In 1996 The Residents released a companion soundtrack to Bad Day on the Midway titled "Have A Bad Day."

Track listing:

Bad Day on the Midway
Dagmar, the Dog Woman
I Ain't Seen No Rats
Tears of the Taxman
God's Teardrops
The Seven Tattoos
The Marvels of Mayhem
Lottie the Human Log
Ugly Liberation
Daddy's Poems
The Red Head of Death
Timmy

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