CarnEvil Arcade Playthrough HD 

I played this game with a stranger once. We never talked but gave each other assuring looks after each level. Good times.

I love how even after years and years there are still fans/ a fanbase for this game. Watching this for halloween and nostalgia, let's get a petition together for a remake

Some indie developer needs to remake this.

This dude: *barely survives a carnival full of murderous monsters and dangerous traps* Also this dude: Let's do it again!

I just beat this game in the arcade after 16 years of it haunting me. I never beat it as a kid, but as an adult, I felt my inner child with me as I put that last bullet in tokkentakker

"Go on the graveyard tour," they said. "It'll be fun," they said.

...not gonna lie. That cgi intro was actually pretty fucking awesome.

I distinctly remember this game being at a bowling alley near my house. I never had the guts to play it, but I remember watching the intro over and over again. It always gave me the creeps. :)

So many unavoidable coin eaters.

This is the perfect Halloween arcade game, i'm dead serious

I demand either an HD remake, or a sequel, with the return of Evil Marie. . . don't ask

I remember as a kid this was one of the scariest and hardest games to play at the arcade. Such a classic! This dude had the auto reload or some shit and still had to "continue" multiple times which just shows how hard it actually was

I love how the final boss is literally pronounced "Token Taker"

"Welcome to CarnEvil We're visiting your town No, that's not the walking dead It's just a silly clown! We open every midnight and close before the dawn Your mommy may come look for you but by then we will be gone!"

When I was a child I remember I used to watch the intro over and over again but I couldn't play it because I was too scared. This game machine used to be in an arcade wich was inside a super market called Hiper Libertad here in Córdoba, Argentina. Makes me sad to know that this kind of games doesn't exists anymore. We need to bring game machines back!

The ending. The hero was like, "That was fun. Let's do it again."

Ahhhh... back when games were honest about liking us for our money (lol)

It's amazing how well this has aged. The use of prerendered graphics for the backgrounds and also incorporating some prerendered foreground elements with the real-time rendered bad guys is spectacular. Frankly, I wonder why more games from this era didn't use the whole mixing pre-rendered with realtime elements.

Damn the voice acting is actually really good for the time period, especially compared to like The House of the Dead. It fits it's whole tone perfectly and it still looks great. Sadly as a kid, never was able to get passed the first boss lol.

Took me $5 to beat this game as a kid... still my greatest accomplishment to date :D

"Evil Marie." Most creative. Name. EVER.

I would love to see this game rebooted as like a first-person shooter, resident evil village style. Get stuck in a carnival/theme park, the main plaza is a hub world of sorts, go to every area and slowly piece together what the hell everything is, some fun puzzles and weapon upgrades from the “prize counter”. It could even be called something like “CarnEvil World: Carnival’s Back in Town.”

Evil Marie walked so Lady Dimitrescu could run

This game was simply HARD to be with just 50 cents and the ammo was at a clear disadvantage.

This game gave me nightmares when I was a kid lol

When I first played this game when I was eight the opening made me cry

they have this cabinet at Arcade Legacy in Cincinnati, unlimited game play $10, my son and I got to the end of this game last night

The ending Going back to hell like a boss

This game should be a movie or a series. It's amazing!

That *"Umlaut is a Kiss-ass"* Drawing on the black board is actual perfection

Why the HELL would he put the token back in the jester's mouth especially after going through a living nightmare. I guess there's not much to do in the country i guess.

This and Area 51 were one of my favorite games at those Arcades.

wow that final boss guarantees the arcade at least $5

CarnEvil and House of the Dead were my two favorite rail shooters from the 90s. So many great memories. It’s nice to watch these playthroughs

I remember seeing this in an arcade movie theater. Damn, this scared the s*** out of me as a kid.

man the graphics and gore had me spooked as a kid but now its very impressive how this looked back in the day. No wonder it freaked me out especially the baby boss, scary stuff.

That'd be a great Universal Studios Hollywood/Orlando attraction for its annual Halloween Haunted Nights event.

Why the hell would you put the token in again after all of that

“It’s the Freak Show, THE FREAK SHOW!! See the strange and bizarre. Step right up, we’d love to see you, we think You could be the STAR!” -Umlaut

2003, This, alongside with The House of The Dead cabinet, horrified the living shit out of me at my local bowling alley. Hah, didn't even want to go in there alone to see the attract mode of this game; gave me nightmares as a kid.

Arcades, what a time to be alive. I miss my child hood sometimes and how awesome it was to get excited to play your favorite game and someone else would be there and you both would be friends by the time the game was over. Arcades going bye bye in America is one of the worst things ever. Thanks from a friend!

I remember playing this as a kid and being scared shitless... Then I played it in Junior year of HS, and now whenever I get to the start of the Big Top level, I can't help but lose my shit in laughter every single time.... KILLER MIDGET CLOWNS, MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

19:05 I love how a small clown appears in the largest booth and a large one just breaks out of the smallest one

I remember seeing this game in a bowling alley when I was 5. So many nightmares. Seeing this now, this is just another comedic Halloween ghosts and zombies shooter game and I love it.

Bring...back...this...game!

BOSSES Haunted House 2:57 HAMBONE (Gun-Armed Killer) 4:39 HAMBONE#2 (Cannon-Armed Killer) 6:20 EVIL MARIE (Axe Murdering Specter) Rickety Town 11:57 KRAMPUS (Demonic Anti-Santa) Freak show 15:18 EYECLOPS (Two-Headed Multi-Eyed Man) 17:09 JUNIOR (Giant Baby Abomination) Big Top FINAL BOSSES 22:26 UMLAUT (Jester Host of Carnevil) & 22:57 TOKKENTAKKER (Necromancing Master Mind of Carnevil)

Randomly thought of this game, terrifying as a kid!

One of the best Halloween themed arcade games in history!

This is one of my favorite arcade games!

God I loved this game and that last boss really was a "TokkenTakker" (Token Taker XD)

"Welcome to the lower birth! The greatest show unearthed! We appear without a sound The darkest show around! We will leave you in a daze, Madness, murder, dismay! We will disappear at night With blood on the concrete! Na! Na na na! Na na! Na na na na na na na na! Na na na! Na na! Na na na na na na na na!" The Greatest Show Unearthed just fits this game so well. Even though I'd never play it now, they had this game at a drive-in movie theater I went to growing up, so I played this game as a kid. Also, considering I played THIS as a kid AND used to watch Are You Afraid of the Dark?, it's no wonder why I have a fear of clowns! ^^l

Damn, for a ghoul, Marie has a nice pair~ Until she loses her face, then it's not hot anymore.

So glad I bought this game with the cabinet when I had the chance.

Thanks for posting this. I remember seeing this in a random arcade when I was a kid and being disturbed and excited at the same time. I was obsessed with everything horror when I was a boy, so this looked great to me, even though I never had any money to actually play anything. Watching this playthrough on Halloween night just seems right.

Fucked with this game so hard back in the day..actually beat it once on vacation back in like 98 or 02 cant Remember but I do know they made bank off little 8 or 12 yr old me lolll

Krampus is FINALLY get his Xmas horror movie!

CarnEvil is easily one of my favorite shooters of all time.

The music in this game is just amazing, especially the Haunted House level music.

For some reason I love how umlaut's laugh continues to echo even after the level has started.

Someone has probably said this in the comments already. But there was a option Midway put in all cabinets where the owners could change the boss of The Freak Show from the baby Junior to a teddy bear named Deaddy

They had this at my local movie theater. As a kid it was almost dreamlike. Very dark in the arcade room, and very loud. I still remember feeling the bass in the song “Big Bunyan Ride” as I sat to the side and watched somebody play it. Never could get myself to do it though, it was absolutely terrifying. But I loved it.

This game needs to be brought back with or without updated graphics :)

This game stayed in the pier house on the east coast. Every year we hit the beach and I made friends every year playing it. Got a lot of quarters from my parents too. They would fish on the pier and my sister and myself would play this game and shoot pool. Makes me miss the late 90’s and early 00’s

I love this game, and I almost beat it at the arcade yesterday. But other than that, I think the carnival is something created by the Joker....if he overdosed on Scarecrow toxin.

The sorce of my Childhood Trauma, glad to overcome my fears- swag graphics for 1998

This was my favorite arcade game as a kid. Good thing my mom never found out

Loved this game...would go play it at the Student Union every day after class

This game used to scare the out of me as a kid, it still scares me to this da7. But it is still the best arcade shooter game I've ever played

14:39 The primitive cave man with one eye and beard in the glass is a character from other Midway game, Trog.

This game scared the crap out of me as a kid, LMAO

My papa joe would play this with me at the arcade until the machine was gone in 2019 and now he is gone too. Rip pops.

I would love to see this as a 3rd person shooter and with more History of the Jester.

*HOW IT SHOULD HAVE ENDED* (The "hero" wakes up to see the grave of TokkenTaker in front of him and seconds later, another coin drops down. As he picks it up and reaches to insert it...the girl smashes a large wooden branch into his face, knocking him out before she grabs the coin and punching him in the crotch for good measure.) Girl: What...the...HELL? You really think I wanna go through that again? (Cut to the lake where she tosses it. The coin sinks to the bottom...where it lands into the hand of Jason Voorhees( Jason: ... (Shrugs shoulders, pocket coin and continues sweeping lake bottom) *END JINGLE*

I miss this game SO MUCH..

Classic arcade shooter. Man does this game bring back great memories and feelings

Lol carnevil was my game. I played it every time I went to see a movie! =^×^=

Dang I used to love this game!! I remember when me and my cousins finally beat it at the arcade. We were sooo proud and happy. Damn it was hard as he'll to beat it to.

1:58 Zombie: “Hey man welcome to CarnEv-“ **gets absolutely destroyed**

Where I live, there's an arcade truck that does parties and stuff. I had it for 2 of my birthday parties and most of my friends also got it for theirs. We used to make a game out of how many times we could beat this game. It was everyone's favorite, to the point where the kids that were too scared to play would stay and watch us play. Sadly, the truck replaced this with a more average shooting game, but I still love this old one...good times...

17:13 Thomas didn't grow up too well.....

This game is awesome. Reminds me of Evil Dead.

writing an essay about the depiction of marie antoinette in fiction, do you think this works?

My son and I would play this back in the late '90's. Was SO much fun!!

This game looks so fantastic. It's visual design and effective use of pre-rendered environments make this game very gorgeous to look at. My only gripe with this game is that there are some bits of damage that are completely unfair, but I'd overlook that issue without a doubt.

You know our main character is a bit of an idiot. Aside from putting in the token in the first and last part. He goes through this entire carnival of psychotic monsters and demons in the most absurd of ways. -Like why did he climb into the roller coaster, instead of walking? -Why did he think climbing into the cannon would be a good idea, and not result in one of the demons killing him while he was in there instead of firing it? It's a little nitpicky and I think the game's much more enjoyable if you "leave your brain at the door". -I still wanted to say that.

Brings back memories

I remember playing this game when I worked at: games of the gods at the Luxor.... I actually got to work early just to play this!!! Got myself unlimited life, those were easier time's. Great to see this!

So much nostalgia. When I was around the age of 8 my father would take me to the arcade and I would go straight to this game. I always wanted to beat it. He one day saved enough coins to respawn me through the whole game. Sweetest father ever.

Played this once at a bowling alley when I was a kid. Scared the hell outta me. The bowling alley is gone now. Burnt down. That’s no fun.

I feel like this could make a great survival horror or horror shooter if they rebooted it.

I LOVE this game, so much character and a unique setting for a light-gun game.

I have many fond memories of this game. It reminds me of House of 1000 Corpses

I like how each level gives you a little view of the other sections of the park, like you can see the ferris wheel and the Chamber of Horrors in the Haunted House level.

I can't believe I missed this as a kid. Love it!

I introduced my kid to this game and watched him finish the whole game.

this game needs to exist again

I remember my brother and I almost finished this game at a theater one time but had to stop playing cuz our movie was about to start (we were watching ZombieLand lol) Good times man

I cant believe this game looks so good still! its impressive af to have prerendered backgrounds keep the camera movement of realtime 3d models. even in a lower frame-rate it stays super snappy a full of action

this game will always be in my memory . glad you uploaded this . seriously came up in my mind at random

Loved this game as a kid beat it so many times they should remake this for VR that would be so dope