Let's Play: Bad Day on the Midway

[Phelot]

Actually it's The Resident's Bad Day on the Midway. It was released in 1995.

I have no way of getting the dialogue as it's not captioned. Speaking of dialogue, it's brilliantly written, though the voice actors are pretty lame... it was 1995 after all!

The intro movie is of a flyover of "The Midway" the amusement park/carnival that the game takes place in. Note the "Sperm Whale" attraction...

Ta Dah!

Meet Timmy! The archetype for small innocent children everywhere. You play as Timmy, through his eyes you explore the Midway and try to discover just what is going on... For Timmy, the only thing he's after is a good time.

One of the coolest features of the game is that the current character that you posses has their thoughts for all the read below the main window. Timmy is a bit simple.

This is the auto fortune teller. She'll give you clues as to what you should be doing... or just ramble. Right now, all Timmy should be doing is exploring.

Deep thoughts... your cursor will change to arrows when you move it to different sides of the screen. For right now, we don't really care where we're going. There really isn't any story yet other then the adventures of a young kid looking for fun.

JACKPOT! SHOOT A COMMIE! "Better dead then red" reads the sign... this will be our first attraction to see

But wait! We meet a new character! It's Miss Dixie, the owner of the Midways wife. I wish I could get the dialogue... but it would mean writing it all down or recording it all and I'm not that dedicated I fear anyways, Miss Dixie introduces herself. Timmy asks if she's from Texas and she says she isn't but that she sure do like anything Country. Right right, out of the way lady! Time to shoot commies! (btw, you can posses other characters that you meet by clicking on them. The cursor will turn to an eyeball)

of course... the attractions are just quicktime movies... but they're really cool and the art is by a number of really talented artists that have gone on to do some cool things! There's a youtube video for this one and I suggest you watch it,cool music and art. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW1GMvrGPR4

Invigorating! Timmy seemed to have had fun. let's see whats to the left... a door!

Hmmm... a strange back room. Lets move forward.

It looks like a sick man is on that bed... moving closer...

Nice observation Timmy

Probably not...

Clicking on his head triggers another movie... a vision of his mind...

It turns out that this is Ike, the owner of The Midway

The vision is voiced by Ike. In it he details his life, beginning with a distant father and ending with his creation of a fascist neo-nazi theme park "Hiney Land"

Clowns, guns, and swastika balloons! The mind of a madman or of a typical Codexian?

Oh Timmy...

It's Miss Dixie! Miss Dixie explains that this is indeed her husband Ike and that he's in a comma from... an accident. At this point her movie begins, were she gives her story and then we can choose to play as her if we like.

Some notes: The game has a number of different endings and is time limited. You have to just keep exploring each playthrough to try and gather clues for your next playthrough. Each character has different things to say to other characters.

That's all for now I fear for I must run my dears!

 

[Reject_666_6]

I'll be subscribing to this LP.

 

[Phelot]

I have a little more time so I can make one quick update...

Last we left (which was like an hour ago...) we were about to watch Miss Dixie's story. There is no youtube video for this one so I'll try to provide you all with as many captures as possible. Not to hard since this one is just slides anyway.

First, Miss Dixie talks about the three men that influenced her life: Her father, Carlos her lover, and Ike her current in-coma husband.

She explains that her father used to tell her fantastic stories about country singers. Her father, a truck driver, drinks a bit much and Miss Dixie's mother is none to impressed with him. Regardless Dixie seems to loved him very much...

His father is also a writer. Dixie hopes to one day turn her father's poems into country songs... if she could only learn to play the guitar...

Then she meets Carlos. Her one time lover and jazz musician.

Carlos gets her pregnant. Dixie explains that country singing can wait as she has a new purpose in life...

Finding out about the baby Carlos skips out, but not before accidentally knocking over an old guitar he got Dixie. He never bothered to tune it...

Dixie trips over the guitar and falls down the stairs, killing the baby inside her... She was only 17 and so returned to her not so happy mother.

Her friends and her hear about an awesome miniature golf theme park! They go to see what all the fuss is about. It's there that Dixie meets her future husband: Ike.

So completes Miss Dixie's tragic tale, but her tragedy is not yet over. The Midway is in financial crisis and Ike is in no state to do anything about it, which leaves the burden to Dixie. It's time we left Timmy for awhile and switch over to Miss Dixie.

More later. As Miss Dixie we finally get a story to pursue. She needs to get the Midway in order and also keep some of the "attractions" in line...

 

[ElectricOtter]

this is creepier than that Sanitarium LP :shock:

 

[lightbane]

Great, more games made on crack. Incredibly disturbing and imaginative, in other words... MOAARRR!!!!

 

[Luzur]

im so stoned right now i have no idea whats going on

 

[ghostdog]

What the hell ...


MOAR/

 

[Phelot]

Before I continue I should mention that the game got mixed reviews. Almost everyone praised it for it's story, but some questioned whether it is even a game at all since there are no puzzles other then talking to the correct people at the correct time. It has been described as a "multimedia experience" which seems fair. The game is extremely short in one respect, and yet offers a lot of replay value simply because you'll have to try different routes each time in order to unlock the various endings.

One other thing. Through out the game you will hear a clock and be given a time. The game is time sensitive. Also, characters roam around randomly, so you may not always get the same character at the same location and time.

Enough chit chat, on with the show!

Recap: We just switched from Timmy to Miss Dixie who is in major financial danger, not to mention emotional...

Hmmm...

Poetry Jam! Actually most of these are good and there's a lot, I'll show a few. The significance of these? We'll have to find out...

Bile...

This guy needed to invest in some paper...

Fascinating

ok ok enough of that. There's a lot more and they're picked randomly. Moving on

But before we go, I should note that apparently this "accident" involves acid, which is why the coma man is so disfigured. Some of the folks around the carnival think the coma man is someone else...

Back out in the shooting gallery we meet Timmy Again. "Look Miss Dixie! I shot the fat guy!" That's nice Timmy...

Finally outside... only to find Otto. Otto is a talentless, stuttering worm... His claim to fame is his pet rat Oscar which races. We'll meet Oscar soon enough.

He confronts Miss Dixie about her promise for a new sign for his stand, but that's not all he's after. He has a letter which he is blackmailing Dixie with. What does he want? Well... sex of course! Otto isn't exactly lucky with the opposite sex.

Miss Dixie denies Otto who, as usual manages to mess up something as simple as blackmail, but I'm sure he'll be back. Let's head back to the beginning. For now we need to try and meet as many other members of the carnival as possible.

This is Dagmar the Stripper and her two dobermans. She doesn't have much to say right now and we want to play as Dixie for a bit longer. She can be possessed, as can Otto.

She's kind of a cunt to Miss Dixie. Hmph.

Keep moving on...

I bet you would Dixie... I bet you would... Anyways, we got another even to see!

This is suppose to be a horror ride called "Tortures Top Ten" but instead of being normal physical torture, it's more of the mental and emotional. Carrying Cripples indeed. We've got a youtube video here of this. I suggest you watch it since words and pics don't do these things justice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCTIRrOedHc

The ride dumps us out back

By "The Eye of the Maniac"

For most of the characters, it does nothing, but for Ted, the person Dixie is thinking about, it does something very dramatic. Ted is the son of one of the cooler carnival attractions we'll meet soon. Ted is a little strange.

Gotta run for now.

 

[Phelot]

Another day, another update.

Still playing as Miss Dixie, lets check out another attraction. "Marvels of Modern Mayhem"
Narrated by Ike, he describes that kids are the only ones in the world that understands that power can only be had by being merciless, such as kids are when they tease each other: they never stop.

We are now presented a guided tour of some of Ike's favorite events in history:

Next we go to Otto's stall. Otto and his rat Oscar run a gambling ring. You bet on which hole Oscar will stop at. Oscar is special because of the red star that encompasses his head. WE'll hear more about OScar later.

You're probably wondering where I'm going with this lp... well, truth be told I'm not even sure. I forgot how strange and directionless this game is. Really, you just need to move around and experience each character and attraction and then suddenly you've got a subplot. As time progresses things start to happen, but in the meantime you've got all the places to keep you entertained and while you're looking, the character's thoughts will make you laugh.

I can't update that much right now. It doesn't take much to take the pics and play the game, but it sure is a lot of work to post them here, so for the three people following this, bear with me. I'll have more later on tonight or tomorrow. Real life sucks

 

[LazyD]

:shock:

 

[ghostdog]

wow, the art direction is sick... and awesome. What a strange game. I wish it was done in 2D though.

 

[pipka]

wtf is this shit?!
:shock: