The CarnEvil Cult, Greatest Show Unearthed | Esoteric Internet

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CarnEvil is a critical, cult darling of the Internet. An arcade shooter about taking on a haunted, horrifying as absurd as its leader: Professor Ludwig von Tokkentakker. Along the way, the player shoots their way through clowns, dinos, giant babies, and the game's voice Umlaut. It was a product perfectly crafted by the small team's horror obsession and insane aesthetics. The world has Jack E. Haeger to thank for germinating the seed of CarnEvil. But, untended, seeds have a habit of sprouting out of control on the Internet.
Online, CarnEvil has garnered a cult or became a cult. Due to this, its lore now runs deep. It is less of arcade sideshow today and more of the three ring circus's main attraction. The files of CarnEvil hold a mysterious music track named "TUNNEL0.BNK". As always, there is a good ghost story about the spooky implications of this unused beta attract. Maybe all along there was a cult behind CarnEvil? Its a little absurd, but CarnEvil's personality requires it.
Now, make sure you're tall enough to board this ride, okay?
#carnevil - #horror - #creepypasta
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Video Sources (Support the creators/uploaders):
- CarnEvil (1998) Arcade Attract Mode: • CarnEvil (1998) Arcade...
- CarnEvil Promo [1998 AMOA Distributor Video]: • CarnEvil Promo [1998 A...
- Carnevil Iappa 98: • Carnevil Iappa 98
- Midway Games 1998 AMOA Distributor video: • Midway Games 1998 AMOA...
- CarnEvil - Arcade Complete Playthrough #133【Longplays Land: • CarnEviL - Arcade Comp...
- Wicca & Paganism The A Z of Belief, BBC Youth TV 1990: • Wicca & Paganism The A...
- Sailor Moon Dateline special from the 90's: • Sailor Moon Dateline s...
- Baoh OVA (1989)
- I hate the American dub of sailor moon but this clip..: • I hate the American du...
- What's Uptown? (1981): • What's Uptown? (1981)
- Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
- CarnEvil Reunion 2019 at Prince Arcades: • CarnEvil Reunion 2019 ...
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Music:
Kevin Quinn (CarnEvil OST) - "Umlaut's Rhyme [Loading]" (00:17-01:20)
Kevin Quinn (CarnEvil OST) - "Chamber of Horrors" (01:19-02:09)
Kevin Quinn (CarnEvil OST) - "Freakshow" (02:08-03:08)
Frédéric Chopin - "Galop Marquis", performed by Aya Higuchi (03:14-03:24)
Stewart Copeland (Spyro 4: Enter The Dragonfly OST) - "Crop Circle Country" (03:24-06:37)
Stewart Copeland (Spyro 4: Enter The Dragonfly OST) - "UFO Platform Panic" (06:37-9:22)
Genocyber OST - "Alexandria Theme" (09:21-12:22)
Urotsukidoji II OST - "Rebirth of the Mad King" (12:22-17:33)
Genocyber OST - "Vajra - Wind from the Virtual World" (17:32-22:30)
Kevin Quinn (CarnEvil OST) - "The Big Top" (22:30-23:44)
Kevin Quinn (CarnEvil OST) - "Big Bunyan Ride" (22:34-24:32)
Kevin Quinn (CarnEvil OST) - "CarnEvil Nocturne" (24:32-24:49)
Urotsukidoji OST - "Campus Theme" (24:49-25:35)
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All copyrighted media, images, and music respective owner(s).
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Sources: rentry.co/CarnEvil_Cult
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It Is Then That 'Thanks For Watching' Will Return For YOU!

[@TheZalor]

Great video, I'd been curious about this ever since I watched Chass's vid on the thread. He adds nice background music and the text to speech he uses retains that anonymous vibe. For those who haven't yet read the thread, personally I recommend checking it out

[@Pseudiom]

I also recommend Chase's video. I thought the story could also use a more personal/analytical video about it, but Chase is great too.

[@namebrandmason]

Real or not; a twisted "Tunnel of Love" level feels like the most missed opportunity.

[@marccamp6376]

Damn yeah! :D That would have been such a SWEET quick bonus level I never liked how that blondie you have to rescue sometimes suffers cheapdamage-like unavoidable deaths, like being eaten alive before even appearing on screen to be saved. A special 'Tunnel of love' level in which you are on a swan boat with her until the ride ends and enemies ONLY appear around and go after her ignoring you, so its not a regular "surviving level", but a "save the victim from multiple enemies" bonus short stage :D

[@nicks4802]

Its all old ladies who want kisses

[@deepfriedfred]

Ah, /x/. A land of wild conspiracies, hackneyed creepy pasta, and succubus dating tips. The only thing lending credit to this is that op was an admitted bottom and that weebs were wild in the 90s

[@Pseudiom]

I enjoyed it for the weeb aspect alone (CarnEvil is also pretty cool).

[@deepfriedfred]

@@Pseudiom No doubt there!

[@lv1543]

this game is just off the hook. the style, presentation, gameplay, and all the little things add up to it being a really good experience. I remember the only reason why this was replaced at the local pizza joint was because the cabinet finally fell apart due to overuse. The guns were broken and the store owner said that they couldnt find anyone that could repair the machine anymore. It was their #1 played game of their small arcade section.

[@SpongeBobaFett]

I remember seeing this machine in a local theater when I was a kid. We went to go see the Iron Giant or something like that. I've always been curious about it since I felt such dread imagining the horrors that awaited anyone who played

[@onlycoIlect]

I briefly misread the title, and my mind instantly went to: "Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends..."

[@jacobdussault2803]

My mind went to Karn Evil 9 too lol Also, Majora's Mask is probably the greatest game of all time.

[@juankgonzalez6230]

I clicked the video because of that lol

[@retroroy8720]

An excellent video. So glad you liked my video suggestion.

[@Pseudiom]

Thanks again, Roy! Keep in touch if you find anything else interesting.

[@retroroy8720]

@@Pseudiom I will for sure!

[@peeton4031]

I watched my dad play this game when I was a toddler a long time ago. I never knew what it was until Joel from vinesauce played it

[@LostDamnedSoul]

I poured quarters into this machine. The bowling alley used to have wall to wall arcade games. Now, its sad, and pathetic seeing how bare, and empty it is. Damn i miss playing this game. Wish it went to console.

[@nekrozclockwork]

Great video as always! Never even heard of this game but it is a perfect Halloween idea. I feel like anon was just writing a story because it sounds exactly like what that age of 4 chan would like to hear: "so yeah I was in this cult in the 90s and it was so cool and we had guns and we hated the government and we used to use videogames to indoctrinate people into our pagan beliefs and I had a lot of sex and no you can't know about it were were like totally secret" but still a great story that mixes reality with fiction, which works perfectly in it's favor to add the believability that has allowed it to still be relevant today, what a tale.

[@bigblue344]

>This isn't your typical low effort creepypasta >Proceeds to use classic tropes and over the top claims like your low effort creepypasta

[@amentco8445]

But it's fun

[@tonemane1163]

Its Halloween night 2021... n im literally 5 blocks away from one of these damn machines. Why do you know my fears 😨

[@Irishflyboy255]

To be fair, the music track sounds like a music track out of the original Sailor Moon anime.

[@TheArtofDyingTogether]

Unsurprising that Midway would get behind something controversial to make money after a little obscure game called Mortal Kombat. The strategy seems to have worked mostly well for them, at least for a while.

[@thejman5683]

I have my own, controversial theory about why a console Port never happened. TW: School Shootings If a console port were to have happened, it would have likely came out in summer/fall of 1999. And what tragic event happened that April? The Columbine school shooting Some time after the tragedy, people (mainly politicians) started to blame violent video games, especially since it was revealed that the shooters were avid doom fans, even saying that the shotgun came “straight out of doom” Parents of the victims tried to sue Id Software. There were even rumors that the Shooters made a map of the school in the game to plan their attack (not true) Some Video game companies began to tone down some stuff relating to guns in games, Sega never released a gun periferal in the US because of Columbine. And Capcom removed gun support from RE Survivor in the US release due to the tragedy, It’s likely Midway didn’t want to get caught in some controversy, so it’s likely they canceled the console port in light of the tragedy.

[@Levinewak]

Sounds bout right

[@retroroy8720]

Yoshimi's recently made a video about the CarnEvil cult too.

[@judsongaiden9878]

I used to play this game all the time at an arcade at Glenbrook Square Mall in Fort Wayne, Indiana back in the late '90s when it was still new. [[Edit/Note: When the game was still new, I mean. And also back when that mall still had its "Orchard."]] 3:30 1988 is the year 'Killer Klowns from Outer Space' came out. 7:38 Which is also the title of a song by Creature Feature. 9:48 Sounds similar to the premise of Videodrome. 11:30 "Hey, man, nice shot." 12:56 I was a proto-weeb around that time, and even before that, but I never got into Sailor Moon. It always irritated me that THAT was what the mainstream thought anime was all about instead of using, say, Vampire Hunter D (1985) as the exemplar. Btw, you're right to use the term "proto-weeb" because we didn't call ourselves "weebs" at that time. 14:12 Almost sounds vaguely reminiscent of that old Mystery-something-something theme from the '80s. 20:53 "Stop it! Stop it! Stop iiiit!!"

[@kittenmittenkitten]

Based on the content of your channel, I'm surprised you haven't watched Twin Peaks, the "one armed man" is likely a reference to it as he's one of the spookier characters in an already horror-influenced show.

[@prickly10000]

Carnival from 1898. *Is filled with Culture, technology and Props from well into 20 century as well as a Zeppelin that wouldn't even be patented till 1899* Me: Sure why not

[@JOEY22445]

So I didn't understand a thing about what this had to do with the game. All I got was there was a level that may not of made it into the game.

[@retroroy8720]

Pseudiom, I'm curious if you have any plans for a Christmas or New Years themed video this year?

[@ChrisLeeW00]

I was not expecting to hear about a cult of anons today.

[@SkylerKPHDtrustmebroUNI]

Only arcade game I ever played all the way through. God I miss arcades.

[@thenew4559]

I think I played one of these game machines at some hotel when I was a kid, but I could never figure out what game I had played after that.

[@auggie8958]

You always use the best music

[@Pseudiom]

I have very audio based sensibilities.

[@teazqt812]

Look up the etymology of the word carnival.

[@edsbread1422]

The one armed man could be Eastwood in the Dollars trilogy

[@jedwalker4543]

This is the first and only arcade game I ever actually beat. A friend and myself spent like $10 each. We were the coolest kids in 5th grade that week lol

[@carlocappello67]

OP,OP Never changes.

[@carsineceremony]

fuck yeah another great video

[@MG-fv4oj]

When I was little I used to play this at the mall arcade

[@youknowkbbaby]

I wonder if Ilbleed for dreamcast was inspired by carnevil?

[@colemccarthy7713]

just fyi the one armed man reference was probably a twin peaks reference.

[@Pseudiom]

There's a plethora of one armed men, so probably.

[@superzario1000]

Sneed the Clown

[@KaguyaHimex]

Love the idea that the evil mastermind guro sex cult was thwarted by copyright laws

[@tang620]

The tunnel music kinda groovy tho...

[@0therun1t21]

Sailor Venus would make a lot more sense for the tunnel of love.

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

ive never seen a more fake cult thread ever i didnt even need to get to the halfway point where you pretty much prove its fake to realize it

[@MrOuija-rr8kq]

lol at the KZbin comments “ITS TOTALLY REAL1!!!

[@SECONDQUEST]

Good game

[@MrZombieUK]

I fell in love with this game and noone else liked it.

[@unstablemexican88]

i believe the cult is real. people are that insane

[@kareliask]

Not first, but early. Early gang.