Total Carnage (Euro, USA)
Total Carnage is an arcade shooter, developed by Mark Turmell for Midway in 1992. The game was released for the SNES in 1993 and the Amiga CD32, Amiga, and DOS in 1994. It shares many gameplay elements with Midway's previous title Smash TV and features a cameo appearance by the protagonists of the previous game as well.
Later the game was re-released in 2004, as part of Midway Arcade Treasures 2 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and Nintendo GameCube game consoles. In 2005, an Atari Jaguar version was released by Songbird Productions, nearly ten years after work on the game originally began. It was re-released in 2006 as part of Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition for the PC.
Total Carnage features top-down shooter gameplay, in which the player has a birds-eye view of the situation. In the SNES version, the character on screen is controlled via the D-pad and the A, B, X, and Y buttons are used to control the direction of the shooting. In the Arcade version, the player can enter a password at the start of the game to warp the player to anywhere in the game. Some passwords are the names of the developers, such as MARK (Turmell). The player also gets a temporary shield per bomb drop (in some cases, this might not happen). The weapons have been modified, at death, the user gets a rapid-fire gun instead of the normal gun, the rocket launcher now also shoots ball-bullets and is slower, the game also features two types of a Flamethrower, one that shoots regular fire, one that shoots blue fire at larger ranges. The Grenade Lobber is faster than its Smash TV counterpart, and it shoots blue grenades instead of yellow and grey ones.
Later the game was re-released in 2004, as part of Midway Arcade Treasures 2 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and Nintendo GameCube game consoles. In 2005, an Atari Jaguar version was released by Songbird Productions, nearly ten years after work on the game originally began. It was re-released in 2006 as part of Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition for the PC.
Total Carnage features top-down shooter gameplay, in which the player has a birds-eye view of the situation. In the SNES version, the character on screen is controlled via the D-pad and the A, B, X, and Y buttons are used to control the direction of the shooting. In the Arcade version, the player can enter a password at the start of the game to warp the player to anywhere in the game. Some passwords are the names of the developers, such as MARK (Turmell). The player also gets a temporary shield per bomb drop (in some cases, this might not happen). The weapons have been modified, at death, the user gets a rapid-fire gun instead of the normal gun, the rocket launcher now also shoots ball-bullets and is slower, the game also features two types of a Flamethrower, one that shoots regular fire, one that shoots blue fire at larger ranges. The Grenade Lobber is faster than its Smash TV counterpart, and it shoots blue grenades instead of yellow and grey ones.
Total Carnage (Euro, USA)
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Technique
CPU
- maincpu LR35902 (@ 4 Mhz)
Chipset
- LR35902
Affichage
- Orientation Yoko
- Résolution 160 x 144
- Fréquence 59.732155 Hz
Contrôles
- Nombre de joueurs 1
- Nombre de boutons 2
- Type de contrôle joy (8 ways)
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Screenshots de Total Carnage (Euro, USA)
Story
In Total Carnage, an evil Middle Eastern dictator named General Akhboob closes off his country to the rest of the world following a war in 1999. Hundreds of reporters flocked to the zone in hopes of getting a real scoop. Unfortunately for them, one of the reporters discovers that there's more than baby milk being made at the 'Baby Milk Factory'.
General Akhboob then captures the reporter, as well as all the remaining reporters in his country. It turns out that General Akhboob has been building an army of mutants and a stockpile of chemical weapons. He's also holding several American reporters and other civilians captive. It is up to the Doomsday Squad, composed of Grandpa (Player 1) and Rich (Player 2), to invade Akhboob's base, wipe out his forces, destroy the mutants, rescue all the hostages and capture Akhboob.
Along the way, Grandpa and Rich fight various mutants and monsters, a giant mutant cyborg named Orcus, gets captured by Ahkboob's soldiers and put the team through his super-charged Electric chair, Arrive at the 'Baby Milk Factory' and destroy his nuclear capabilities, and finally confronts General Ahkboob himself. Ahkboob transforms into several forms, including a series of three giant heads, one head as himself, one as the Kremling overlord King K. Rool, and one disformed red head. After his defeat, he attempts to escape by releasing a swarm of copies, but is captured and executed by Donkey Kong.
The Doomsday Squad then decides to take a military leave to the Midway Pleasure Domes, a grotesque amusement park and brothel. The player(s) can only access this area if they collected 220 keys during the game (This amount varies by Dip switch settings in the Arcade version, or by various console ports.) They share the gifts and awards they collected from the Contestants of the previous game, Smash TV.
General Akhboob then captures the reporter, as well as all the remaining reporters in his country. It turns out that General Akhboob has been building an army of mutants and a stockpile of chemical weapons. He's also holding several American reporters and other civilians captive. It is up to the Doomsday Squad, composed of Grandpa (Player 1) and Rich (Player 2), to invade Akhboob's base, wipe out his forces, destroy the mutants, rescue all the hostages and capture Akhboob.
Along the way, Grandpa and Rich fight various mutants and monsters, a giant mutant cyborg named Orcus, gets captured by Ahkboob's soldiers and put the team through his super-charged Electric chair, Arrive at the 'Baby Milk Factory' and destroy his nuclear capabilities, and finally confronts General Ahkboob himself. Ahkboob transforms into several forms, including a series of three giant heads, one head as himself, one as the Kremling overlord King K. Rool, and one disformed red head. After his defeat, he attempts to escape by releasing a swarm of copies, but is captured and executed by Donkey Kong.
The Doomsday Squad then decides to take a military leave to the Midway Pleasure Domes, a grotesque amusement park and brothel. The player(s) can only access this area if they collected 220 keys during the game (This amount varies by Dip switch settings in the Arcade version, or by various console ports.) They share the gifts and awards they collected from the Contestants of the previous game, Smash TV.
Development
Jon Hey followed up his sound creation for Smash TV with the sound and music for Total Carnage. Ed Boon, who created Mortal Kombat for Midway along with John Tobias, was the voice of General Akhboob. The Detroit Pistons make a cameo appearance in the game. The game was developed with most of the people behind Smash TV.
Reception
According to programmer Shawn Liptak, Total Carnage failed to reach the target of 2,000 arcade cabinets ordered.
Detroit Pistons Easter Egg
In the game, there is an easter egg of text which reads: "The Pistons will Rule the NBA." This text refers to the Detroit Pistons, who went on to win the NBA Championship in 2004. Game designer Mark Turmell is a Detroit native and Pistons fan.
