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AtomNight Trap was it worth all of the controversy?
Overtime Comedy brings us this video from the Sega CD version of Night Trap? When the video game violence debate first started up this game along with Mortal Kombat were the centers of attention. In Night Trap you can protect Kelli (played by Dana Plato from Different Strokes) and other innocent pillow fighting girls by setting up traps around the house to catch men dressed in black costumes. When an invader was caught by a moving wall or blocked by a glass screen they would disappear in a puff of smoke. The video shows the “secret” ending that players could get by capturing all of the Augurs.
5 Responses to “Night Trap was it worth all of the controversy?”
August 17th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
This isn’t that big of a deal.Why would they get worried over this scene?
August 17th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
y’know, it takes a particularly fucked up game designer to reward you by giving you the chance to murder dana plato
August 17th, 2006 at 6:31 pm
What the Heck?!How did this crappy avatar get on my profile?!
August 17th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
It got to be a big deal because Nintendo of America’s very own vice president, Howard Lincoln, thought to further the company’s interests by backing Joe Lieberman’s electoral campaign that was vehemently against ‘violent’ entertainment for youth. Sega became evil, though they didn’t even develop this game. Mortal Kombat was the yin to Night Trap’s yang, and of course Nintendo went on to license it for their own SNES without a blood code following the Genesis version.
It was as completely ridiculous then as it is now, and I think that might have been the catalyst for Dana Plato’s downward spiral and eventual suicide… I think there’s a lot of sadness in that era of video game history, really, as it marked when things got too political and bureaucratic. It was neat to see the ending at least.
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August 17th, 2006 at 11:50 am
I can’t believe the industry made such a big deal over this.. I mean, look at where the standards are now! Do the words “San Andreas” bring anything to mind? Forget about Hot Coffee. The game itself is full of things much more “inappropriate” than Night Trap..