Sentences with phrase «night trap»

The United States Congress held hearings in the 1990s to discuss violence in video games, and Night Trap was one of the major examples in the discussions.

Night Trap, along with the original Mortal Kombat and Doom, featured violent content that helped lead to the formation of the Entertainment Software Ratings Board and the age ratings that it applies to video games.

It includes the Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II, Matterfall which is a side scrolling shooter set in a war zone, Nidhogg 2 and Night Trap 25th Anniversary Edition which is a unique take on helping girls survive using traps and cameras.

Finally, completing a perfect game unlocks the bonus game called SCENE OF THE CRIME which was originally a tech demo presented to Hasbro that paved the way for NIGHT TRAP to exist.

Starring C - list celebrity Dana Plato (of Diff'rent Strokes fame), Night Trap puts you in the role of a member of the «Sega Control Attack Team» or (sigh) SCAT for short.

When Quinn was 12, her dad bought her a 3DO console at a garage sale and she discovered games such as Night Trap and Star Control 2.

Then, a Senate Sub Committee hearing on video game violence would forever change NIGHT TRAP»S history and the history of gaming.

Full motion video games were all the rage back in the»90s (especially on the Sega CD), but Night Trap is definitely the most infamous.

It's worth mentioning that the hearings overseen by Joseph Lieberman that led to the ESRB rating system were also fixated on Night Trap (1992), a game better remembered for its teen pop theme than any dismemberment.

The original film for Night Trap is gone but a copy of the original masters still existed, which was intended for a VHS console called Control Vision that was eventually cancelled.

When Night Trap was originally released, a lot of people just assumed that games were for kids.

A few gaming websites contacted the owners of Night Trap to see if they had any involvement with it which they didn't.

It's the game that refuses to stay dead: Sega's Night Trap, a game that sparked a wave of controversy back in 1992.

Night Trap isn't a game that is usually looked at in a positive way so the reaction definitely caught me off guard.

Night Trap might have gone the way of Sewer Shark - another forgettable FMV game from the period - if it hadn't gotten swept up in the same moral panic surrounding violent video games in the early 90s.

We have some some disasters come out of Kickstarter like Mighty No. 9, Night Trap Revamped, Godus, Star Citizen and even the Ouya.

The idea of playing Night Trap playing on a phone sounded ridiculous but that idea was enough for me to keep going with it.

There were a lot of restrictions put on Night Trap when it was originally created.

Thanks to the controversy of games such as Night Trap and Mortal Kombat, the ESRB Ratings Board was created.

Mortal Kombat continued through the years, but Night Trap was a one - off that has laid dormant, as the era of Full - Motion Video games died down.

When both companies were called in front of a senate hearing about video game violence, Nintendo US chairman Howard Lincoln launched a scathing attack on Sega for the violence portrayed in Mega Drive titles like Mortal Kombat and Night Trap.

Indeed, developer Tom Zito, who worked with Sega on Night Trap, was quoted in the book The Ultimate History of Video Games, claiming that Nintendo has orchestrated the whole hearing in order to get Sega into trouble.

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As for Night Trap, it is not a good game by any right, but it is pretty unintentionally funny nonetheless.

Twenty - five years later and Night Trap still looks stupid.

Best described as a «playable B movie,» Night Trap uses filmed actors, and scenes are portrayed throughout a house where teen girls are having a sleepover.

Night Trap: 25th Anniversary Edition is available now on PlayStation 4.

To be honest, even in 1992, we all thought Night Trap sucked.

Some friends of mine, also in their late 30s and early 40s came by, we had a few drinks and booted up Night Trap: 25th Anniversary Edition.

God, Night Trap was awful.

The 30 Most Offensive Lines Of Dialogue In Gaming is clearly going to gather more interest than The 20 Best Doors In Gaming, despite number one in the latter obviously being the cupboard door at the left - hand side of the bathroom in Night Trap.

Anyway, good read and looking forward to more, especially the lists (such as the inevitable ’30 Reasons Why You Should Play Night Trap»)

Because no matter how obscure the link, Night Trap should always be in there.

Of which, naturally, number 1 would be the ones in Night Trap.

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Anyone who was gaming in the early «90s remembers Night Trap.

Eventually, Night Trap would contribute to the creation of the ESRB rating system.

Howard Lincoln used the hearings to point out that Nintendo had never allowed violent games (like Night Trap) on its system.

Do you remember Night Trap?

While there were plenty of garbage titles (Marky Mark and Funk Bunch: Make My Video, Night Trap, Sewer Shark), but there was a surprising amount of good games for the add - on too.

25 years after the initial release, Night Trap is finally getting a remastered port for modern platforms including PlayStation 4, PC and Xbox One.

Night Trap was considered exceedingly violent.

Faced with the fallout from Night Trap's controversy, designer Rob Fulop, according to Tristan Donovan, set out to create the «cutest,» least offensive game he could muster.

Today we give you our review of Digital Picture's Night Trap, brought back to life 25 years later.

Will Night Trap for Nintendo Switch bring another huge onslaught of customers or will fans be able to easily buy a copy?

Here's something truly surprising, though — Night Trap would also directly inspire the development of a virtual pet PC game — a game that would catalyze the creation of a huge web community, a thriving video game subculture populated mostly by women.

Barlow says more indie games should use video, as independent developers have the freedom from lots of the constraints he thinks doomed the full - motion video (FMV) game genre on computers in the 1990s — games like Phantasmagoria and Night Trap starred real actors, but struggled for viability because of their relatively high budgets and a mixed reception to the kind of play experiences that game with them.

I got a perfect run in Night Trap.

To look at this situation as a whole, let's go back to the 1990s, when Night Trap was heavily criticized for its inclusion of sexually revealing images and Mortal Kombat was receiving similar attention for its gory death animations.

Nintendo on the other hand, scolded SEGA for even creating Night Trap, and censored all of the blood and gore from their version of Mortal Kombat.