CarnEvil
CarnEvil is a rail shooter arcade game using a light gun. It was released by Midway Games on October 31, 1998. CarnEvil is noted for its graphic content and strong lifelike violence, peppered with heavy amounts of black humor. CarnEvil is a portmanteau of "The Carnival of Evil" and was inspired by the 1962 movie Carnival of Souls. It is the most successful light gun style game produced by Midway Games, although to date it has never received a home-console release or re-release
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DeveloperMidway Games
ReleasedOctober 31, 1998
StatusReleased
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About This Game
A local legend in Greely Valley, Iowa: insert a golden token into the jester's mouth on the tombstone of Ludwig von Tökkentäkker, and a haunted amusement park will rise from the cemetery ground. During a Halloween hayride, one visitor locates the token and inserts it. The legend was accurate. The carnival rises. The exits close. The only weapon available is a shotgun pulled from the shooting gallery. The way out runs through the Haunted House, Rickety Town, and the Freak Show before reaching the Big Top, where Tökkentäkker waits aboard his airship. After surviving and destroying the airship, the protagonist wakes outside the tombstone in the morning — and then inserts the token again.