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Night Trap - 25th Anniversary Edition - Announcement Trailer | PS4
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Spine_Ripper
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This is pretty cool. I was born a year AFTER the game came out but always wanted to play through it myself. Day one.
cj_iwakura
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There are people who played and love the original you know.
MrCunningham
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Really, the footage in Night Trap is almost 30 years old, the Dangerous Games documentary shows the filming dates on the clap boards...
July 29th 1987.
And yeah, the sexualized content in Night Trap was overblown, the game itself was used as a catalyst against violent video games. Some say that former NOA president Howard Lincoln tipped off senator Joe Lieberman's people that there was a game that featured 'realistic' graphics with a scene that featured a girl in a night gown that could be murdered if you didn't save her in time. They spun it off into a "rape scenario'.
The game itself was never really trying to be over the top. It was intended to be a cheesy b-movie inspired game. But it got caught up in the 1993 video game hearing's. Though in retrospect, the controversy helped this game sell more copies than it should have.
I would love if they did this with Snatcher and had Limited Run Games do a special box just like this.
Sewer Shark would be great...the biggest problem with that game was that the video quality was so horrible you couldn't see what you were supposed to be shooting.
And someone mentioned Ground Zero Texas...man I played the hell out of that one summer. Forgot all about it.
I bought Double Switch for my iPhone recently too. It's funny how I can still recite the lines after all these years since every single time you play you're subjected to the same thing and it gets crammed in your skull for eternity!
And someone mentioned Ground Zero Texas...man I played the hell out of that one summer. Forgot all about it.
I bought Double Switch for my iPhone recently too. It's funny how I can still recite the lines after all these years since every single time you play you're subjected to the same thing and it gets crammed in your skull for eternity!
Plumpbiscuit
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For some odd reason, I always had it in my head how similar these 2 look, and makes me love Night Trap even more. Especially given the context of the other image.
Sectorseven
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Really, the footage in Night Trap is almost 30 years old, the Dangerous Games documentary shows the filming dates on the clap boards...
July 29th 1987.
And yeah, the sexualized content in Night Trap was overblown, the game itself was used as a catalyst against violent video games. Some say that former NOA president Howard Lincoln tipped off senator Joe Lieberman's people that there was a game that featured 'realistic' graphics with a scene that featured a girl in a night gown that could be murdered if you didn't save her in time. They spun it off into a "rape scenario'.
The game itself was never really trying to be over the top. It was intended to be a cheesy b-movie inspired game. But it got caught up in the 1993 video game hearing's. Though in retrospect, the controversy helped this game sell more copies than it should have.
This was really filmed in 87, and intended as a multimedia game? Because I don't think streaming video or CD-ROM even existed yet, at least not for consumers.
PositiveGamer
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Fox Mulder
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Fmv games have their charm. This is just a shitty game. It's only notorious due to the overblown politcian reaction and scummy Nintendo.
Sectorseven
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Boobs covered in several layers of clothing, yes.
PositiveGamer
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Which Sega CD game had the boobs?
I've never played this, but always been curious, though I think I'd prefer to buy a used copy for my SegaCD because I can't imagine it has much value outside the novelty of it being one of the early FMV games and seeing it in the way it had to be packaged (compression, etc.) back then.
There are some good FMV games - Gabriel Knight 2 remains one of my favorite games to this day, and may honestly be the pinnacle of the genre - but this doesn't really seem to have many redeeming qualities in either storytelling or production.
There are some good FMV games - Gabriel Knight 2 remains one of my favorite games to this day, and may honestly be the pinnacle of the genre - but this doesn't really seem to have many redeeming qualities in either storytelling or production.
fvng
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you must be a riot at parties. i'm stoked. nostalgia is a real thing, and anyone who loves cheesy 80s/early 90s movies will eat this up.
While true, it's still not a good game. It's an amusing one for the cheese factor, but not much else.
PositiveGamer
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It holds a special place in the hearts of many....
The experience of playing Night Trap is very similar to the first time you had sex. It might have been a disappointment, but you are not going to forget it!
PeakPointMatrix
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I feel like this is setting a precedent to have Sonic 06 receive an Anniversary Edition in 2029.
bmcphail2008
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It was originally intended to be a game on a VHS based system that Hasbro intended to release, but when that was cancelled, the footage sat unused for four years.
ThirstyFly
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This is my Shenmue 3 at E3 moment.
I can't wait. It better not be stupidly difficult to get the physical version.
I can't wait. It better not be stupidly difficult to get the physical version.
No, it's actually much tamer than the media made it seem back in the day.
Ninja Scooter
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Chuck Rock
MaximumSpider
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Slow down there
The Adventure of Willy Beamish. I vaguely remember a scene where he tries to peep his older sister.
MetalGearZed
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i lol'd
SlasherJPC
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Can't wait. Give me Double Switch, Corpse Killer, Ground Zero Texas, Sewer shark... all of them.
TwiztidElf
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The kickstarter failed right? So where did this come from?
Did the Kickstarter guys just keep going? OR is this something completely different?
Did the Kickstarter guys just keep going? OR is this something completely different?
Dream or otherwise, I'm cracking up a little
I'm in. I'm guessing a lot of the people shitting on the game aren't familiar with FMV games/haven't played it...? It's not gutter trash like a lot of people seem to be saying. It's a cheesy b-movie turned into an FMV game. Is this like AVGN syndrome where people just parrot the opinions of YouTube talking heads?
Barkley's Justice
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It was for a "game" machine that used VHS:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-Vision
Nemo / Control-Vision
NoKisum
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I'm seriously wondering this too. Whenever we get threads about games people want to be remade, I definitely don't see anyone mentioning this game.
I can agree to that.=p
Evil John Locke
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I feel like some bluff of mine was just called and now I'm going to have to buy this game.
cj_iwakura
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Well at least people are getting the hating out of their systems early.
NegativeCero
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This is the most left field thing announcement I've heard in a while. This can't actually be more than an ironically liked game, right?
MrCunningham
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It was planned for a game console that in development by Hasbro and Nolan Bushnell (the original founder of Atari) that would use special VHS cassettes. The console would've been called the Control-Vision, and it would use special multi-track VHS tape that would also stream a data channel to an 8-bit CPU in the system. It was going to be a weird VHS game machine with 8-bit graphics overlays, or something like that. Hasbro realized it was a dumb idea during development and cancelled it.
Night Trap and Sewer Shark were filmed in 1987 and 1988 for the Hasbro Control-Vision console, but after the console's cancellation they sat on a shelve somewhere for quite a few years. I'm pretty sure that both these games were to be revived on the SNES-Playstation CD add-on, but that console never happened. Then Digital Pictures moved over to the Sega CD, because it was the only viable home console at the time that could stream video data. Sega picked up the original publishing for Night Trap while Sony Image soft published Sewer Shark.
Also, in the 32x and 3DO version's of Night Trap, there is a scene where the "SCAT Commander" (or whatever he's called) holding up a prototype version of the Control-Vision game pad.... or at least that is what the claims are.
For the Sega CD version, they re-filmed this guy's scenes holding a Sega Genesis/ Mega Drive pad.
