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The Residents: Bad Day on the Midway | 
 enlarge | From: Inscape
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $61.55
New (5) Used (8) from $19.99
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 24539
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows, Macintosh
ESRB: Rating Pending
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 1.9 x 10.1
UPC: 711436700159
EAN: 0711436700159
ASIN: B000FJ57ZY
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| Features:
| • | The Residents' Bad Day on the Midway plunges you into a sinister soap opera set in a carnival of the damned where the characters are the rides. | | • | Dodge death and taxes while solving a mystery of murder and intrigue in a world populated by a cast of ten unforgettable characters. | | • | Pick a character and explore an incredible array of attractions, oddities and subplots as you attempt to unravel the midway's dark secrets. | | • | Jump into another character and observe how differently things appear. | | • | Seek the hidden escapes encrypted in this twisted game, but beware, for surprises abound everywhere and nothing is quite as it seems. |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
twisted 3-D graphical adventure from the minds of the the Residents, the infamous and anonymous rock and roll band/performance art troupe. The player explores the world of a demented carnival midway by inhabiting (possessing) it's freakish denizens. Events appear differently when viewed through the eyes of different characters and each time the player leaps into a new character, his or her story is told via a graphic novel drawn by a well known comic artist. Visit the "Kill a Commie" shooting gallery as Oscar the Racing Rat or watch a sperm whale give birth to an electric eel as Dagmar the Tattooed Dog woman. Strangeness abounds when you have a bad day on the midway.
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| Customer Reviews:
A perfect introduction to the Residents' present period August 28, 2007
Marked Wayne (MS)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Remember when the Residents balanced their absurdist lunacy with a heavy coating of dark humour and veiled menace? Well, somewhere down the line (perhaps around the time 'God in Three Persons' was released) their absurdism took a backseat to the dark humour and the once-implied menace grew into something wholly disturbing.
Residents have always been as much a multimedia group as a musical one, so it's only fitting that an interactive musical 'novel' of captures them at one of the most grotesque moments in their long history.
Taking place at a barely occupied theme park, you switch from character to character in order to solve a number of mysteries and explore just as many subplots in the constrictive time limit that lasts around thirty minutes. No, this is not a game you beat (or really a 'game' at all), but one that you play over and over again to find out just what the hell is going on. I won't ruin it for you by revealing the truly disturbing goings-on beneath it all, but I will say that, should you find a copy under 20 dollars, it's well worth the purchase.
HINT: The scene with the singing, dancing tree woman alone is worth the 20 bucks.
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