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Total Carnage

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Name: Total Carnage
Manufacturer: Midway Games
Year: 1991
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Scrolling Fighter
Monitor:

  • Orientation: Horizontal
  • Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
  • CRT: Color
Conversion Class: JAMMA
Settings: Total Carnage Dipswitch Settings

Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Joint
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Controls:

  • Joystick: 8-way [Move]
  • Joystick: 8-way [Fire]

Sound: Amplified Stereo (two channel)

Cabinet Styles:

  • Upright/Standard
Total Carnage

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Total Carnage Description

Total Carnage was produced by Midway Games in 1991.

Midway Games released 53 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1972.

Other machines made by Midway Games during the time period Total Carnage was produced include Super High Impact, Double Cheese, Mortal Kombat, Judge Dredd, Mortal Kombat II, Atlantis, and Golf Champ.

Dual joystick shoot 'em up. Desert Storm theme. The player is attacked from all sides by the evil General Ahkboob's infantry, tanks and BioGenetic Mutants. Rescue reporters and civilians. Pick up 220 keys to gain access to the "Pleasure Dome" at the end of the game.

Total Carnage - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.35 (1 vote)

 Personal Impressions Score: 3.20

     Overall 'Like': 3.00
     Fun (Social): 4.00
     Fun (Solo): 3.00
     Collector Desire: 3.00 
Technical Impressions Score: 3.50

     Gameplay: 4.00
     Graphics: 4.00
     Originality: 3.00
     Sound/Music: 3.00

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

The names of the two player characters are Captain Carnage and Major Mayhem.

Blast your way through the Baby Milk Factory and fight Orcus, the Mother of All Bosses. Collect keys to enter the Pleasure Domes. Many special weapons and secret areas.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Total Carnage Census

There are 11,862 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,330 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 156,102 machines (6,618 unique titles).

Very Common - There are approximately 70 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 37 of these machines are owned by our active Total Carnage collectors. And of these, 8 are original dedicated machines, 3 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 26 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - There are 3 active VAPS members currently looking for Total Carnage.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

This game ranks a 18 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 8 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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Additional References
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  1. The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Total Carnage Flyer #1234    

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5. Total Carnage Arcade Marquee Midway Williams Translight Header Sign Backlit

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6. Total Carnage Arcade Conversion Side Art Artwork Overlay Decal Sticker CPO

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8. Total Carnage ( MK Cab ) Side Art Arcade Cabinet Artwork Graphics Decals

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9. Total Carnage Arcade Instruction Card Midway Monitor Marquee Bezel Sign

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