The Residents' Bad Day on the Midway

(Inside Cover): From the minute you wake up. THE WORLD IS NOT QUITE RIGHT. A power blackout has caused your alarm to go off an hour late, the last piece of bread burns in the toaster and there's no milk for your coffee. Immediately after breaking a shoestring, you discover a stain on the favorite shirt you are wearing to an important lunch date. WHEN FOUR TOTAL STRANGERS SAY, "YOU LOOK TIRED" ON THE WAY TO WORK, you realize THAT IT'S NOT GOING TO GET ANY BETTER. Sooner or later it happens to everyone, but most bad days don't include the possibilities of plague death, being stalked by a psychotic killer and having the family business shut down by the IRS. It may be true that no one escapes death and taxes, but seldom does anyone deal with both on the same day. While THE RESIDENT'S BAD DAY ON THE MIDWAY may be a little more extreme than most, its goal is the same as any other bad day: SURVIVAL!

(Page 6): Everyone understands the idea of the anti-hero: the person who ultimately accomplishes the same goals as a traditional "hero," but in a way that allows him to exploit the negative or darker parts of his personality. In a similar way, by focusing on the darkness of its characters, THE RESIDENT'S BAD DAY ON THE MIDWAY becomes an ANTI-GAME. Just as the anti-hero eventually becomes the hero, the anti-game ultimately becomes a game.

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Game Manual

GET READY FOR THE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE!

THE RESIDENTS' BAD DAY ON THE MIDWAY
PLUNGES YOU INTO A SINISTER SOUP 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. OUT OF THE DEMENTED MINDS OF UNDERGROUND LEGENDS THE RESIDENTS, AND VISUALIZED BY ANIMATION WIZARD JIM LUDTKE, BAD DAY ON THE MIDWAY COMBINES INTELLIGENT 3-D CHARACTERS, FLYING NAVIGATION, INCREDIBLE ENVIRONMENTS, AND NEXT GENERATION GAME DESIGN. THE EAGERLY AWAITED FOLLOW-UP TO THE RESIDENTS' ACCLAIMED HIT FREAK SHOW, BAD DAY ON THE MIDWAY IS THE MOST BIZARRE AND AMAZING ROLE-PLAYING GAME EVER. ATTRACTIONS

Kill a Commie Shooting Gallery

Sperm Whale Giving Birth To an Electric Eel

Oscar the Racing Rat

Marvels of Mayhem

Lottie, the Human Log

Dagmar the Dog Woman

The Three-Headed Abominable Snowman Skeleton

Eye of the Maniac

Madam Mandrake

Tortures Top Ten

FEATURING GRAPHIC NOVELS BY

Georgeanne Deen

Peter Kuper

Paul Mavrides

Dave McKean

Jonathan Rosen

Richard Sala

and Others

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Back Cover - Windows 3.1