Collection: Night Trap (the Game)

Live Music Show - Video Game Music Interpretations

The only thing Nerds like more than Youtube is playing Video Game theme songs in funny ways.

Curated by Jason Forrest

Total Runtime: 0:42:34

Playlist:
Zack Kim - Super Mario Theme on 2 Guitars
Nerd Army - Solar Jetman
Buckner & Garcia Pacman Fever
Mario Brothers Music on Marimba
Saria's Song on Beer Bottles
c64 Orchestra (overview)
Mortal Kombat on Russion accordion
Minibosses Castlevania 2
Mario theme played with RC car and Wine bottles
Tetris A Theme on Glass Bottles
Zelda Theme played with Tesla Coils
The Advantage - Gradius 2 / Solar Jetman Live
Zelda Ocarina of Time - Gerudo Valley on Marimba
Press Play On Tape - Gost 'n Goblins

Spectrum Hunter (2012)

Discover a collection of haunted media, a benevolent tribe of new wave witches, a goth teenager with real magic powers, and much more...

Curated by Deathbomb Arc

Total Runtime: 0:31:55

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Discover a collection of haunted media, a benevolent tribe of new wave witches, a goth teenager with real magic powers, and much more! ...When TC's older brother Tyler goes missing, TC and Rotten Robbie set out on an adventure to find him. The trail leads them deep into the core of the uncanny Spectrum Hunter cult where they encounter bizarre rituals, puzzles, illusions, and a pantheon of adversaries. Inhabiting deserted malls, the Spectrum Hunters erect strange sound stages that form a treacherous labyrinth. Surveillance cameras document their unusual habits and the subsequent videos are sold in clandestine locations. But is it just effects? Or are the Spectrum Hunters playing for keeps?

Collection - Live Action Nintendo ads

Amazing and often bizarre live-action remakes of classic NES games

Curated by Zack Kotzer

Total Runtime: 0:18:10

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The Nintendo Entertainment System (also abbreviated as NES or simply called Nintendo) is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America during 1985, in Europe during 1986 and Australia in 1987. In most of Asia, including Japan (where it was first launched in 1983), China, Vietnam, Singapore, the Middle East and Hong Kong, it was released as the Family Computer (ファミリーコンピュータ Famirī Konpyūta^?), commonly shortened as either the Famicom (ファミコン Famikon^?), or abbreviated to FC. In South Korea, it was known as the Hyundai Comboy (현대 컴보이) and was distributed by Hynix which then was known as Hyundai Electronics. It was succeeded by the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

As the best-selling gaming console of its time,^[7]^e[›] the NES helped revitalize the US video game industry following the video game crash of 1983,^[8] and set the standard for subsequent consoles of its generation. With the NES, Nintendo introduced a now-standard business model of licensing third-party developers, authorizing them to produce and distribute software for Nintendo's platform.^[9]

In 2009, the Nintendo Entertainment System was named the single greatest video game console in history by IGN, out of a field of 25.^[10] 2010 marked the system's 25th anniversary, which was officially celebrated by Nintendo of America's magazine Nintendo Power in issue #260 (November 2010) with a special 26-page tribute section. Other video game publications also featured articles looking back at 25 years of the NES, and its impact in the video game console market.

Doc - Commercial Breaks: Imagine & Ocean Software

a behind the scenes of software houses Ocean and Imagine circa 1983

Curated by Jason Forrest

Total Runtime: 0:29:42

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In early 1984 the Imagine team were working on a spectacular project known as Bandersnatch. The game was to come in an A4 sized box containing around 30 'goodies' including a required additional piece of hardware for your Spectrum computer. The retail price of Bandersnatch was expected to be around £40 and it was to be a completely new concept in computer games. Apparently 10 professional artists were working on the graphics alone. Bandersnatch was never released. On the 9th of July 1984, Imagine went bust after only 18 months of operation.

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Collection: Night Trap (the Game)

Infamous because of its part in the 1990s Congressional hearings on offensive video game material.

Curated by Jason Forrest

Total Runtime: 0:54:15

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Night Trap is a video game that was released in North America on October 15, 1992 originally for the Sega Mega-CD. It was filmed over a three week period in 1987 for an unreleased game entitled "Scene of the Crime". The footage was placed into archive once that game never materialized, but the footage was later used to create a game by Digital Pictures which in total reportedly cost US$1.5 million to produce.^[2] This game became Night Trap, which was originally developed for Hasbro's NEMO system, which used VHS tapes instead of ROM cartridges. However, when Hasbro scrapped production on the NEMO, Night Trap was moved to the Sega CD and later brought to the Sega 32X, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, and PC platforms with higher-quality video. The game utilized full-motion video scenes entirely and is notorious for the controversy it brewed in 1993, resulting in US Senate hearings and withdrawal of the game from the market.^[3] Japan has gotten a Japanese dub of this game and the region was only able to see a Mega-CD and 3DO release.

Controversy

Night Trap is now infamous because of its part in the 1990s Congressional hearings on offensive video game material. Night Trap, Mortal Kombat, Lethal Enforcers and Doom are cited as primary factors in leading to the development of the ESRB game industry ratings system.

On December 16, 1993, the SEGA CD version of Night Trap was removed from store shelves at Toys "R" Us and F.A.O. Schwarz locations in the United States in direct response to a December 9, 1993 joint Senate Judiciary and Government Affairs Committee hearing on video game violence.^[5] The hearings were covered heavily by the media and were co-chaired by Senators Joseph Lieberman (Connecticut) and Herbert H. Kohl (Wisconsin), during which Night Trap was cited as "shameful", "ultra-violent", "sick", and "disgusting", encouraging an "effort to trap and kill women". Contrary to such claims, players are not trapping or killing women, but are saving them from harm.

The Congressional hearings were covered in major newspapers including USA Today, The Washington Post and The New York Times.^[6] In particular, a game over scene in which the character Lisa is wearing a nightgown while captured by Augers attempting to drain her blood was found to be very offensive, given the circumstances in which she is attacked (scantily clad in a private bathroom). In defense of the game, Tom Zito (President and CEO of Digital Pictures) attempted to explain the context of the nightgown scene during a hearing session, but he claims he was silenced.^[6] In the short documentary Dangerous Games (included with the PC version), the producers and some members of the cast explain that the plot of the game was to in fact prevent the trapping and killing of women. In addition, the blood draining device was intended to look very unrealistic and would therefore mitigate the violence.^[6] Despite scenes in which the girls are grabbed or pulled by enemies, no nudity or extreme acts of violence were ever filmed or incorporated into the game.^[6]

Additionally, Night Trap's box art was criticized by interest groups for what many believed to be a sexist depiction (see above). In 1994, after the controversy died down, the game was ported to 3DO and Sega 32X, and for PC and Mac in 1995. All of these versions were released with a new cover depicting a tame screenshot of Dana Plato from the game, with decorative artwork in the background.

Movie - Night Trap - The Movie (1992)

Footage from the controversial Video game turned "feature" film. No, it doesn't make any sense.

Curated by Deathbomb Arc

Total Runtime: 0:47:53

(1992)

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A group of young women are staying at Mr. and Mrs. Martin's for the night. The Martin family seems like a normal American family, however, odd things have been occurring at this house. Five girls who previously stayed at the place had disappeared, so the "Sega Control Attack Team" ("Sega" changed to "Special" once the game was ported to other consoles) is called upon to protect the new guests and find out what happened. As the new wave of girls arrive for a slumber party (one of whom is undercover SCAT agent Kelly, played by Dana Plato), the vampiric Augers begin to invade the Martin family house. Later on near the end of the game (If the player manages to capture all the Augers and save all the innocent victims), Kelly finds out that the Martin family are vampires themselves.