Question about the rights of Carnevil and Freaky Flyers

I came across a memory of a game that I had remembered playing a couple of years ago called Carn Evil. Which is a game involving a sick and twisted carnival shooter that IS NOT a kids game. One of my brother's friends is trying to get some interest on releasing carnevil for the Nintendo wii. As well as getting a sequel to the racing game Freaky Flyers. Now I am aware that the company Midway went out of business. So who currently holds the rights to Carnevil and Freak Flyers?

edited 8th Mar '11 12:27:35 PM by Theoriginalblader

Most of Midway's asset were purchased by Time Warner, can't answer you beyond that.

Warner Bros. owns the rights to most of Midway's old properties (Spy Hunter, Mortal Kombat, etc.), but I don't know if Carnevil or Freaky Flyers are among them.

Carnevil was kickass, man. They were promoting it as "the goriest game ever", then Columbine happened and people were a lot less friendly towards shotguns and gore, so Midway pulled back advertising and thus it's a cult classic now instead of a full-fledged hit.

I remember Carnevil freaking me out.

I was disappointed with the blurry textures (a side effect of using a 3DFX card). It was still a cool game, though. Loved the "draw whatever the hell you want with blood" score screen. More games need that.

Carnevil was probably the greatest source of nightmare fuel I'd ever come across as a kid.

And I'd love to play it some time, since I was always too big a chicken to do so years ago.

I saw this one game with a high score screen like that. Don't remember the name, it involved slicing a plastic katana wildly at a screen. I liked it.

I remember my brother liked the haunted house boss. Anyways, did anyone came across any kids playing this game and their parents were suprised that it wasn't a kids game?

No, but have heard one arcade owner getting bitched out for having a House Of The Dead 2 machine with the screen facing the front door of the arcade.

Holy shit, I remembered this game! Man oh man, It was about as crazy as American Mcgee's alice in my own view. Haven't heard of Freaky Flyers. Anyways, I don't know who owns the rights to either games to help you out.

On a similar note, I still remember my grandmother trying to ban House of the dead because she didn't want her teenage grandson(my brother who was 17 at the time) to become a killer. She got sent to a retirement home after that.

HAHAHAHA! Maybe she can play less violent games now, like Baccarat. XD

Freaky Flyers is some plane multiplayer game like Bravo Air Race for PS 1 or the canceled Dreamcast game Propeller Arena, but this is for the XBOX, and every song has cheesy vocals (if I remember right).

If I recall, Freaky Flyers was also released for the gamecube and PS 2

Really? I never knew that. It probably was worse on other systems, as that was the way that generation went as far as multi-platform games were concerned. ;)

I only know a bit of it now, since I did a little research regarding on this. Some of those character designs look like proposed Spumco characters. One character looks similar to Earthworm Jim.

Freaky flyers is a video game that is a racing game, in veins of cartoony ness to go around. Video game cutscenes of the game can be seen on youtube. And there are three girls that would fit the Fanservice description. Also the character your talking about that looks like Jim is Johnny Turbine

edited 3rd Apr '11 9:30:18 AM by Theoriginalblader

I wouldn't mind seeing Carnevil as a Wii port. And maybe a sequel to Carnevil. That'd be a

Oh yeah, Carn Evil. I remember playing that during a birthday at a laser tag arena. And by play I mean watch older people play because I was a total pussy at the time. I was very young.

I remember loving Carnevil, loving the premise, loving the main stages, loving the enemies, loving that wacky ringleader, and absolutely hating the fact that the bosses do not flinch or anything no matter how much you shoot them... unless you shoot them a lot.

I was expecting something like House of the Dead, where if you hit a weak point or a general area enough times the boss will fall back, you would be saved and retry it's attack in a different fashion. It got really annoying real fast how I could drill away at the bosses and it'd just come down to slugging each other and seeing who goes down first.

CarnEvil freaked me out when I saw it at a bowling alley when I was like eleven. Now I'm old enough to appreciate the black humor in it (the Midway level moreso than the other two). Also, if one were to show this song to Nobuo Uematsu he would retire immediately, knowing that perfection had already been achieved.

Just listen to those lyrics. A true artist at work here.

edited 16th Apr '11 11:11:30 AM by Magus

I find it amusing that whoever rates arcade game content didn't even have a high enough category to appropriately represent this game—they just slapped it with "Animated Violence—Strong," which they also applied to Bloodless Carnage games like Time Crisis 2.

Isn't it funny how we're all talking about Carnevil and nobody gives two shakes off a rat's ass about Freaky Fliers?

If Freaky Flyers managed to Mood Dissonance my innocence, I'd probably care for it more.