{"id":8230,"date":"2023-09-09T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T04:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/?p=8230"},"modified":"2023-08-20T23:29:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T03:29:07","slug":"funhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2023\/09\/funhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Funhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/64.media.tumblr.com\/eb5a228d7c7ee70c6db2cff35e0f9b7e\/c0501cd0f97524ff-ae\/s1280x1920\/6fdeae15450e39a5b7fad0b3a1a166a9c75ac3fd.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightbox-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/64.media.tumblr.com\/eb5a228d7c7ee70c6db2cff35e0f9b7e\/c0501cd0f97524ff-ae\/s1280x1920\/6fdeae15450e39a5b7fad0b3a1a166a9c75ac3fd.jpg?resize=525%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Photo of the Fun House backglass as described in the post.\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Funhouse, Williams, 1990. This game is so evil <a href=\"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2022\/06\/rudys-revenge\/\">I wrote a short story about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The conceit is a funhouse at a carnival. There\u2019s a hot dog cart and a mirror maze and a trap door, but the primary feature is a giant ventriloquist dummy head named Rudy that talks to you throughout the game.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s creepy normally especially if you\u2019ve watched the ventriloquist episode of Twilight Zone, but at one location I play at his eye is upside-down and he goes from creepy to cursed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/64.media.tumblr.com\/2f0606fc8e8e2b25ef6489f99d37b7f8\/c0501cd0f97524ff-2d\/s1280x1920\/c8b6e9e1284347387b635b77d7c20e94f4394e5f.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightbox-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/64.media.tumblr.com\/2f0606fc8e8e2b25ef6489f99d37b7f8\/c0501cd0f97524ff-2d\/s1280x1920\/c8b6e9e1284347387b635b77d7c20e94f4394e5f.jpg?resize=525%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A photo of Rudy's head with the upside-down eye looking super especially creepy especially if ventriloquist dummies creep you out to begin with\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The backglass is\u2026 a thing. Rudy as a giant head with giant hands nearby holding doorways into the funhouse looks like he\u2019s sitting on the stage of a 1940s dance stage. A large crowd is in the foreground surrounding the stage. Some scary posters are to the left. Beyond the first horizon in both directions are circus tents, balloons, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The building behind the creepy head has lots of people riding slides around building edges as if the funhouse was also a water floom.<\/p>\n<p>In the right foreground, Rudy stands with a very large clock slung around him, and the sign for a ticket booth declares that the funhouse closes at 12 (an integral part of the game play).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funhouse, Williams, 1990. This game is so evil I wrote a short story about it. The conceit is a funhouse at a carnival. There\u2019s a hot dog cart and a mirror maze and a trap door, but the primary feature is a giant ventriloquist dummy head named Rudy that talks to you throughout the game. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2023\/09\/funhouse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Funhouse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[218],"tags":[261,219,236,238,269,270,200,255],"class_list":["post-8230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pinball","tag-90s-aesthetic","tag-backglass","tag-carnival-theme","tag-cursed-objects","tag-funhouse","tag-funhouse-ahahahahahaha","tag-rudys-revenge","tag-williams"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sdUhYo-funhouse","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8232,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230\/revisions\/8232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}