Night Trap - The most violent, perverted, and dangerous game ever created

Back in 1992, Sega was set to wow the world with its CD-ROM attachment for the Genesis. One of the games that premiered along with with the Sega CD was Night Trap, a game about young girls spending a night in a lake cabin that was inhabited by vampires. This game was at the forefront of the full-motion video craze where players controlled an interactive movie where filmed scenes would show the action and players could basically choose which scenes would show based on their input. In this case, the player had to activate various traps to protect the girls from the vampires.

This game created a ton of controversy with people claiming the goal of the game was to rape and eviscerate the young girls. Sentaors Lieberman (yes, that senator Lieberman) and Kohl led a senate committee hearing on violence in video games where tey used the game as an example of how video games were corrupting the nation's youth. The one positive thing that came out of these hearings was the creation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) that came up with a rating system for video games.

Here I present a short documentary on Night Trap where you can see that what was derided as a game full of sex, violence, and perversion, was really a game of bad acting, poor gameplay, and Diff'rent Strokes star Dana Plato.



Someone has also taken the liberty of splicing all the video scenes from Night Trap together into a more-or-less cohesive movie:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

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