The Residents - Freak Show - CD-ROM (1994) (preview) 

My dear old friend Jim Ludtke created this multimedia masterpiece, and I'm thrilled and honored to say I'm one of the shocked faces looking through the window of the mole's trailer. I have immortality thanks to Ludtke, one of the nicest and most talented people I've ever known. RIP

I don't know why I played this game as a kid. Left quite an impression. I remember doing the Human Mole thing, and before clicking on him to tell the story, I waited long enough for him to say, "Ah, forget it."

This game shaped me, scarred me, truly amazing. Thank you Jim Ludtke and The Residents :)

This video comes off as surreal performance art in itself, since the player keeps interrupting the songs and stories before they finish in order to go aimlessly wander around some more in a game that consists entirely of discovering and listening to songs and stories. It's like watching someone play Tetris by trying to build a tower to the top as fast as possible. It completely defies the purpose and incentives of the game. Bravo?

That's enough living for today

The ISO is available here, so you can burn and run it in an emulator: archive.org/details/freak-show-win3x

this is friggin awesome! thanks,,,

My dad showed this to me as a little kid and I loved it!

Everyone comes to the freak show to laugh at the freaks and the geeks. Everyone comes to the freak show but nobody laughs when they leave.

I was really excited to see this again after all these years - and while I'm truly grateful you went to the trouble of sharing this, I'm a bit sad that you cut most of the featured songs and stories short.

Dan Avidan sent me

Herman: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PYPZhER2R6k.html Mickey, Benny, Wanda: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fjf5f-Vhcxo.html Tex, Jack, Harry + The Residents: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RjfM4caVVWk.html

“But nobody laughs when they leave”

souvenirs souvenirs !!

I just bought this again... some crazy art director stole my copy in the 90s in Chicago. I just hope it plays on my new state of the art PCs. Jim Ludtke is the artist in this project. He died some years ago but was brilliant. I think he did this on a hospital bed. He did the Gingerbread man that way I know... he was very sick. But brilliant.

Hey, can you do the Gingerbread man?

What software was used to do this?

What was the song at 10:30-10:48?

Kdyby si to chtěl někdo zahrát sám, tak zde je odkaz na hru online archive.org/details/Freak_Show_1994_Voyager