You might do people a favor and note that there are multiple youtube edits that stitch all the video together into a fairly coherent 45-55 minute long movie. The gameplay's trash as you noted, but the FMV is pretty funny without wasting time on it. Simple serach on "night trap movie" will pull up the current crop of vids.
Lots of prudes out there who saw videogames as the work of the devil... And this making it look like we were in control of people's lives, pushed these prudes into decrying this title (and others) as corruption of the youth.
Sure, but it's still aimed towards kids and there's scantily clad girls getting abducted and having blood drilled from their next. So, even though I agree with you to some degree I also get why it was considered kind of controversial.
The "controversial" scenes in question are the games' fail state. You are even berated by the in-game operator for seeing them. It's weird that they were treated like the point of playing it.
Reminds of when Anita Sarkeesian when she showed and narrated over a clip of her murdering and dragging around the corpse of a stripper. The stripper was a civilian you're suppose to avoid, you can even see her lose score in the clip she uses but you're suppose to avoid civilian casualties.
@@PikaLink91No it's the typical tactic of them To cherry pick. The point that is They're trying to show their "Audience" (God fearing old timers who don't get the kids and their Rock and Rolla and Hippodyhop music and fear for their souls against the great satan) what " they want to see" to give "justification" You see it with anti-gun politicians as well. Anyone using statistics has RUINED THE CONCEPT OF STATISTICS because of this type if GROSS manipulation! People are still shocked that "politicians lie" like "Yeah ah-duh they bloody do, it's like their JOB! THEY ONLY PROGRESS further through deception if they have to and your a fool for not remembering that!
@@Jose-se9pu Bro, if I experienced one of those back then I'd shit my pants and not touch the game for over a decade. FYM people like me in the 90's would play to watch someone's neck be drilled for blood?
ah, the inseparable duo of politicians that are incredibly afraid of anything new while being completely ignorant of what they are afraid of and videogames It's pretty nostalgic actually
Here in Brazil, the guy that wants complete government control over our internet, even tried to pass a law to enforce this North Korea level bullshit, does not know the difference between print and link.
Does anyone else remember the Mass Effect news segment that Fox News did in 2007? I love when the game dev asks "have you actually played this game..." and they all go "NO!" like the idea of actually playing the game they're doing a slander segment on would be totally ridiculous.
Never heard about the videos being shot in 1987, that does explain the super '80s feeling, and Dana Plato looking so young. About the "game", I think it is a piece of gaming history, but other than that...also hilarious how Hasbro didnt want people getting biten in the game, but were ok with the most traumatizing device in the history of gaming.
They could easily walk around the issue by making the ogres be some kind of mind flayer. I mean, Hasbro has the right to D&D and it would extra cheese to have rubber tentacles wrapped around the actor's head as they do some exagerated expressions to represent the mind sucking.
What is it with the 90s and giving fictional organizations the S.C.A.T. acronym, by the way? You got this and then a video game called Special Cybernetic Attack Team.
I think one of the reasons Night Trap holds up where many FMV games don't (at least imo) is that it knows it's silly and cheesy and embraces it from the word go. Most of the FMV games I've seen try to be serious, very straight-faced, and so immediately stumble due to a lack of acting talent and budget. Looking at you, Terror TRAX. Night Trap though had talent, had budget, and knew how to use both well. I think if more FMV games had embraced the goofy reality of things instead of trying to make "real artistic video games" they would have done better. Sadly, as would continue for many years, people in the industry desperately wanted to make movies and merely "settled" for video games, and then jumped at any and every opportunity to make a movie instead of a game.
Man, they put Nigh Trap in the same level of Mortal Kombat lol I guess it's a good thing no one showed something like Harvest to those geezers, they would've called for a ban on video games altogether, tho it didn't come out on consoles.
You mean Harvester? I think the fervor died down by the time that game was completed (mid 90s, didn't really flare up again till the Hot Coffee Mod fiasco), in fact I heard they wanted to finish it sooner to capitalize on the loud outrage of Leiberman or Dan Quail (like with Cop Killer).
I played Night Trap in the early 90s and found it cheesy and laughable. There was nothing controversial but it kept claiming something saucy was about to happen, a bit like a Carry On film.
Good lord, the shot of those teenagers playing the game calling it "Gratuitous." No one under the age of 21 is gonna use a word like that unless its the Poindexter character in a B-list Disney Channel movie.
Like the added touch of having the head vampire father, Victor Martin, wearing a grey jacket with red scarf combo resembling Jerry Dandridge from Fright Night.
13:14 not gonna lie the kind of mind you would have to have to come up with that and try that is downright diavolical. I just love the acting, like she doubts it.
This is throwback and no two ways about it! It's one of those games I've always thought was consigned to the mists of time, and I'm glad to see it got a remaster. I might have to pick it up purely for the nostalgia factor. It's a great bit of gaming history, and the overacting is just *chef's kiss*.
There's more violence in your average Looney Tunes cartoon. The Boomers' crusade against video games (heck, *everything* that kids of the era enjoyed) was utterly absurd.
If it hadn't been for the Congressional controversy, no one would remember this game. Just another terrible FMV game from an era of terrible FMV games. I think all gamers groan when they discover how much of a pissy fit politicians threw over such a stupid, cheesy game.
You gotta remember when it comes to politicians. They will never hesitate to take advantage of a controversy. I still remember that one politician Who brought up a stink about that ps two game, Smugglers run. only to end up getting arrested Because it turns out he was actually taking bribes from literal smugglers. It became hilarious when you know it's any of these Politicians attack video games. It's safe to say that they're trying to distract from something there actually doing. Now they're smart enough to just use as a distraction What the typical violent video game attacking like they always do
@@richardjared960 In the original RE4, she gets trapped by a highly elaborate designed trap, that forces her to run away from spikes that rise from the ground, and a clamp that is perfectly her size in the wall, that then turns around once she is stuck in it
Everything you need to know about the 90's is contained in the fact that Congress considered it a pressing danger to America. Like this was on our list of priorities.
@@skazkatzroy3444 A surprising amount of the 90's was watching Congress get angry at cartoons that would become cherished cultural institutions within a couple years. Like that trash show "South Park." Or "Beaver and the Bone-Head." Or that "rapper" M&Ms. Or the Nintendo game Moral Combat. Or...
Having to replay it over & over to watch all the parts 😅 yeah i remembered that. I remembered playing it on pc when i was a kid. Mine shantell got it from her teacher or something 🤷🏾♀️ i didn't see why people was mad about it back then...and i still don't know. I thought it was going to be some hardcore stuff when i first played it 😂
Joe Lieberman was actually pretty reasonable when in full context. Keep in mind that it was the parents that were outraged and upset about the "sexual" content and violence in games. They put pressure on game companies and politicians to come up with a solution. Joe inspired the concept of the ESRB and was fully on board with it as a solution to shut those pesky parents up. It begun the path to video games being taken more seriously as they could be aimed directly to mature audiences. Ironically, the parents ignored the ratings when buying games for their children and ended up still complaining.
Kelley is a special ops soldier posing as the friend of a young woman in the family of individuals the military suspects may have ties to a dangerous secret organization. The Lioness is Night Trap.
Aw man this is classic stuff, i remember the pictures on the box of the guys wearing the ski masks, this was a system seller for Sega CD, great video Boulder Punch
I want to back in time and shows those senators and shows modern games. DOA, Resident Evil series, any COD, Dead Space, Hate and anything from Japan. I would love to see their reactions to them. Would love to here want other games people would want to shows them.
Joe Lieberman and Herb Kohl, both the two politicians that attacked video games are left wingers. They're democrats. Unless you really do qualify anyone right of Marx as right wingers.
@ayoutubecommenter1169 Clinton was always right wing. Especially financially. Obama is/was right wing. It's just that Americans are so massively right wing already that he looks reasonable, but thay doesn't change the fact that he was always center right in a far right world.
I remember playing this as a kid, i found it really funny more then anything, and I remember thinking this would be the future of games... glade I was dead wrong lol
