1 | 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. |
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3 | But the deeper you go into the Midway, and the more [[DysfunctionJunction 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... |
4 | Something like {{Blackmail}}, the mystery of the Midway's owner in a coma, a crazy SerialKiller, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and tax problems]]. |
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6 | ''Bad Day On The Midway'' is a 1995 CD-ROM game from Music/TheResidents, with 3D graphics by the late Jim Ludtke. |
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8 | Here is the [[Characters/BadDayOnTheMidway character page]]. The game can be downloaded for free [[https://www.wegneronline.com/badday/package.html here]]. |
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10 | !!This game contains examples of: |
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12 | * AbusiveParents: Most of the characters, if not all, have had a bad childhood. Some of which fit into this trope. |
13 | * AmusementPark: The Midway itself, run-down and broke. It shows shades of AmusementParkOfDoom and CrappyCarnival. |
14 | ** It does seem to have rollercoaster roads around it, but you never get the chance to ride it. |
15 | ** It has a shooting gallery called Kill-a-Commie, in which the targets are DirtyCommunists. |
16 | ** It has two exposition museums: the "Three-headed Abominable Snowman", and the "Sperm Whale Giving Birth to an Electric Eel". |
17 | ** It has two dark rides, "The Marvels of Mayhem" and "Torture's Top Ten" |
18 | ** 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. The game is rigged against you by Otto, but still... |
19 | * AnimalMotif: 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. Even Dixie comments "guess the best family I ev'r had wuz poor little Moochy." |
20 | * ArtShift: The backstories of the various characters are accompanied by wacky 2D-drawn sequences by various guest artists. |
21 | * BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The women working in the Midway; respectively, Dixie, Dagmar and Lottie. [[AdaptationDyeJob At least,]] [[ArtShift in the 3D models...]] |
22 | * FreudianExcuse: The characters are all flawed in various ways, and a number of them have this to one degree or another. |
23 | ** Ted is a serial killer as an adult, and he places much significance on his father hitting him as a child. |
24 | ** Otto was mocked and bullied in his childhood, and he later became desperate and manipulative. |
25 | ** Dagmar had troubled relationship with her father; when she was a child, a man tried to kill her just to get revenge on her dad. Her upbringing influenced her later rocky relationships. |
26 | ** Jocko spent an unhappy period in an orphanage in his childhood, and he became a very tough customer later in life. |
27 | ** Ike's memories suggest that his father didn't give him the understanding and approval he wanted as a child, and that he became obsessed with Hitler due to a vague similarity between Hitler and Ike's father. |
28 | ** The IRS man saw his dog run over by a man speeding to file a late tax return, so he became fixated on supporting the legal system and punishing cheaters. |
29 | ** Even Oscar wants, on some level, to get revenge on people after being used and abused in the past. |
30 | * {{Leitmotif}}: When you assume control of another character, a short segment from the soundtrack plays for a few seconds. |
31 | ** For Timmy, the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly named]] "Timmy." |
32 | ** Dixie has "God's Teardrops." |
33 | ** Otto gets "I Ain't Seen No Rats." |
34 | ** The IRS Man's "Tears of A Taxman." |
35 | ** Jocko has "The Seven Tattoos." |
36 | ** Ted's "Ugly Liberation." |
37 | ** Dagmar's has the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin fitting]] name of "Dagmar, The Dog Woman." |
38 | * OnlyFatalToAdults: ThePlague will inevitably kill off every adult in the park, including the character the player is controlling. Timmy, however, is immune to it. |
39 | * UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Some characters are surprisingly nonchalant about other characters [[spoiler:dying of the Red Rat Plague right in front of them.]] |
40 | -->[[spoiler:'''IRS Man:'' My heart goes out to that desperate woman, but I'm afraid this new situation does not alleviate her tax problem.]] |
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