Trivia / CarnEvil

• Cut Song: An unused song by the name of "Tunnel0.BNK" was dug up from the game's files. Almost nothing is known about the song, but based on the title, it's possible that it was meant to be used in a "Tunnel of Love" area.
• Descended Creator: Some of the voicework was by the developers themselves.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: This game has never received any kind of home release or any kind of rerelease. The fact that the cabinets are over 20 years old means a lot have fallen into decay.
• Meaningful Release Date: The game was released on Halloween 1998, and it's a horror-based game filled with murderous zombies, clowns, mutants, and more.
• Unspecified Role Credit: The voice actors are listed, but their roles aren't. The only one confirmed so far is Umlaut, one of the characters Jack E. Haeger voiced.
• What Could Have Been: A lot of details were cut from the game:
  • An old rhyme for Umlaut to recite before the Rickety Town level, found Dummied Out in the game files:
    You'll lose all worries, you'll lose all care
    In Rickety Town, I have a hunch!
    You'll lose your voice from too much screaming!
    I bet you'll even lose your LUNCH! (Evil Laugh)
  • The character trademarks registered by Midway include some names that didn't make it into the final game. Among these are Pester the Jester, which may have been Umlaut's original name (although it's hard to tell, because Umlaut is also one of the names shown), and The Human Fly, which was probably the original name for the Flem the Fly enemies. But the names Napoleon Blown-Apart and Cap'n Chunder don't seem like they would belong to anything in the game, so it's possible that those characters were cut entirely.
  • There is evidence to suggest that the miniboss Eyeclops was originally supposed to be a minotaur. Who knows, maybe they thought the minotaur idea was too normal and not scary enough compared to the insanity of the rest of the game.
• Word of God: Creator Jack E. Haegar has explained the backstory of CarnEvil's demise. When the carnival arrived at Greely Valley, Iowa in 1898, Professor Ludwig von Tökkentäkker fell in love with a local farmgirl and wanted to leave with her on his zeppelin. Her disapproving father and other farmers attacked the zeppelin, causing it to crash and burn the entire carnival down.

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