

CarnEvil © 1998 Midway Games, Incorporated.
CarnEvil is a horror-themed rail shooter arcade game. It utilised a light gun that could be pumped to reload rather than needing to be shot off-screen. One rainy night a man called Spooky Sam is hosting a ghost tour in Greely Valley, Iowa, with five teenagers tagging along. When he points out the grave of Professor Ludwig von Tökkentäkker, one of them leaves the tour early and summons CarnEvil.

Midway Seattle hardware
Main CPU : R5000 (@ 150 Mhz)
Sound CPU : ADSP2115 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) DMA-driven (@ 16 Mhz)
Players : 2
Control : lightgun
Buttons : 2

CarnEvil was released on October 31, 1998 in North America just in time for Halloween.
The title of the game is a pun for 'The Carnival of Evil'.
The following movies are referenced in the game in some sort of way: Carnival of Souls (1962), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981), and Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988).
The following poem appears at the start of the game:
When the moon is full and the trees are bare-
Walk through the Cemetery if you dare.
Where skeletons rot and corpses fester-
Locate to the tomb with the skull of a Jester.
Feed him a token all shiny and new-
It is then that CarnEvil will return for YOU!
Rob Zombie's 'Superbeast' is used for one of the attract sequences in the game.
The characters from Trog make a cameo in the Freak Show section, where the cavemen are frozen in a block of ice, the label states 'Frozen in time!'. The Dinos of Trog are enemies in the Rickety Town level.
It is said to be 'perhaps the most twisted video game ever' by the LA Weekly.
Jeff Matza holds the official record for this game with 2,083,180 points on February 19, 2000.
