Recommended by Katie: "I used to have this and I am going to buy it again. It's a great game that fits well into our morbid interests."

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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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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12208 in Video Games
• Brand: Inscape
• ESRB Rating: Rating Pending
• Platforms: Windows, Macintosh
• Dimensions: 10.10" h x 1.90" w x 9.00" l, .63 pounds

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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Customer Reviews

A perfect introduction to the Residents' present period
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.