Who else played Night Trap on Sega CD?
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"Hi Eddie. Bye Eddie. Nice of you to drop by, Eddie. Oh, and let us know when you want to DIE, Eddie"
That line has been living rent-free in my head for over 30 years.
This game felt so cutting-edge at the time because it used REAL video footage of REAL people for it's graphics. Didn't really amount to much more than a pixelated blur of smeared colors on the screen, but that was as good as you were gonna get with ANYTHING in those days 🤷. I mean, I used to spend hours just squinting into the static abyss of late-night Cinemax hoping a pair of boobs would suddenly rise out from the snowy ether like a Magic Eye painting, so this felt like 4KHD in comparison 😂
The game revolves around some villainous creatures/creeps of some kind that are perpetually trying to break into this house to kidnap the girls who live inside. I wanna say they were supposed to be vampires but they were basically just dudes wearing blacked-out versions of Charlie's Green Man suit in Always Sunny. Suffice to say, costume design was NOT one of this game's strong points...I'm not sure it had ANY strong points, tbh.
As for Gameplay, you're tasked with monitoring all the security cameras throughout the house for signs of a break-in. Whenever the creatures gain access to the domicile, you gotta try and ensnare them with one of the booby-traps that are strategically scattered about the residence Home Alone-style. If you fail at timing the deployment properly and they make it to one of the terrified co-eds, then you lose and have to start over.
It was a gimmicky joke of a game on a total flop of a console. There was a game with a similar-style that I owned a few yrs later on another major flop of a system (3DO Maybe?) that was called Psychic Detective...
der_innkeeper@reddit
5 Nights At Freddy's?
NoContextCarl@reddit
Definitely a controversial game to some extent for its time, but sadly I didn't have a Sega.Â
DerangedGinger@reddit
Lunar is still one of my favorite games of all time. Sonic CD was good too.
D-Skel@reddit
I had a game called Panic! that was a lot of fun.
StarQuill01@reddit
This game is why the ESRB exists!
forprojectsetc@reddit
Wasn’t it almost completely gore free? I never played it but in some documentaries they talked about how benign it actually was.
Zinc68@reddit
Night Trap and Sewer Shark were my JAM back in the day lol
bnjmnzs@reddit
Dude Sewer Shark had 13 year old me heated lmao 🤣
Jaderholt439@reddit
I loathed that game. Fucking Corey Haim. Who cares.
bnjmnzs@reddit
🤣
PersianCatLover419@reddit
Sewer shark was difficult, my friends had Ecco the dolphin which was much more fun.
SodiumKickker@reddit
My rich friend had a Sega CD and both of those games. He also had Cliffhanger (based on the Stallone movie) and I remember that being pretty fun.
StarQuill01@reddit
Three, Six, Niner!
Zinc68@reddit
As an aside, speaking of sewer shark, when I saw the sentries in the Matrix I immediately thought of that game !
pyramid-teabag-song@reddit
I was 100% mentally invested in the mega cd. Wanted one so bad. Thankfully, I never had the money to buy one at the time.
Night Trap was intriguing to say the least.
graveybrains@reddit
I could never figure out how to get anywhere in it. Lunar was the only good CD game I had.
yup_its_Jared@reddit
Worse acting than most … Internet… videos.
jessek@reddit
I didn’t have Sega anything growing up so this game was always mysterious to me, I only heard about it on the news and how it was r-rated and pornographic, etc.
Finally a few years ago I watched a let’s play on YouTube of it and man, was it both really cheesy and not a very fun game. I’d have felt ripped off if I bought it back then.
CertifiedBA@reddit
I had the 32x version, probably 1 of 1000 people
SquirrelyMcNutz@reddit
The 25th Anniversary edition is available on Steam, if'n yous interested.
kinopiokun@reddit
And on Switch!
weskervision@reddit
FMV games were my all time Favorite thing as a kid. I thought it was absolutely amazing. I first got started when I played Mad Dog McCree in the arcades. Playing them as an adult, boy were they awful lol. Don’t care, I still have a copy of sewer shark I’ll keep forever!
Lemina@reddit
I didn’t play this one, but I played Double Switch, which had Debbie Harry and Corey Haim
SweetCosmicPope@reddit
I’ve never played it. I want to find out what the fuss was about. The controls seem funky to be honest.
sixfive407@reddit
This and SEWER SHARK. "A million pounds of tube steak son. That's all you gotta deliver today!" Put me in Ghost!
Parking-Iron6252@reddit
Is that Dana Plato?!?
anOvenofWitches@reddit
Dana Plato was also a video game actress before that was a thing? Learn something new every day!
bronzemat@reddit
Dana Plato has an Instagram page supported by her adoptive and birth mothers’ families, close friends, and former movie colleagues. It regularly posts new and rare photos and videos of Dana and her TV family.
https://www.instagram.com/danaplatogram/
Officialfish_hole@reddit
Everything about her life makes me sad. Wish it could have ended better for her and her son
bronzemat@reddit
Same. Some of the public comments I have read from people who met her during her lifetime have nothing but nice things to say about her.
Writefrommyheart@reddit
Never played that one, but my brother had Sewer Sharks, and I loved tf out of that game.
Officialfish_hole@reddit
I played it and enjoyed it. Back in 93 or whatever I even had a notepad with every time/location so I could get the true 100 percent ending. I had a good time with it and nothing but fond memories. There was another similar game called Double Switch that was decent but didn't quite have the charm as night trap
OkBaconBurger@reddit
I played it finally after many a year. I was terrible at it.
Just like I was terrible at Time Gal, that Kung Fu one.
Hell. I’m just terrible at games. lol. Still fun.
cmacfarland64@reddit
I loved it but it was too hard. I could never get past the same spot each play thru.
Nonsenseinabag@reddit
That is so weird, someone literally brought this up in our group chat last night. Baader-Meinhof strikes again!