Animal Motif: Animals hold an important part in most of the characters' lives: dogs for Dagmar and the IRS Man, rodents for Otto, butterflies for Ted, and goldfish for Timmy.
The game is rigged against you by Otto, but still.
It has a betting booth that stars Oscar the Racing Rat as he runs in a roulette and has people guess which of the six holes inside he will go in.
It has two exposition museums: the "three-headed abominable snowman", and the "sperm whale giving birth to an electric eel".
It has a shooting gallery called Kill-a-Commie, in which the targets are Dirty Communists.
It does seem to have rollercoaster roads around it, but you never get the chance to ride it.
It shows shades of Amusement Park of Doom and Crappy Carnival.
Amusement Park: The Midway itself, run-down and broke.
Abusive Parents: Most of the characters, if not all, have had a bad childhood.
You take control of Timmy, a naive and excitable young boy that misses a violin lesson to check out the Midway, an amusement park he heard about in his town.īut the deeper you go into the Midway, and the more quirky characters among the lot that you meet and are told the past of, you just may realize that there's something deeply wrong going on.Something like Blackmail, the mystery of the Midway's owner in a coma, a crazy Serial Killer, and tax problems.īad Day On The Midway is a 1995 CD-ROM game from The Residents, with 3D graphics by the late Jim Ludtke.
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