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...