16 Facts About Night Trap

Night Trap is a 1992 interactive movie developed by Digital Pictures and published by Sega for the Sega CD.

Night Trap concept originated in a 1986 prototype game developed by Axlon to demonstrate their Control-Vision game console to Hasbro.

Night Trap was eventually released in October 1992 as the first interactive movie on the Sega CD.

Night Trap received mixed reviews; critics praised the B movie-esque quality, humor, and video animation, but criticized the gameplay as shallow.

Retrospective reviews of Night Trap were negative, owing to FMV's aging appeal as a game medium, and it has been cited as one of the worst video games of all time.

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Night Trap is an interactive movie video game that uses full motion video to present the story and gameplay.

Night Trap explains that the team was alerted to the disappearance of five teenage girls who were last seen at the Martin winery estate.

Night Trap was developed over six months and was part movie shoot and part programming.

Night Trap was ready for the launch of the NEMO in 1989 alongside another interactive movie, Sewer Shark.

Night Trap transitioned from VHS to CD-ROM and was released in 1992 for the Sega CD, five years after it was originally filmed.

Bill White, Sega Vice President of Marketing, stated that Night Trap was pulled because the continuing controversy surrounding it prevented constructive dialogue about an industry-wide rating system.

Night Trap stated that the game was misunderstood and was developed as a parody of vampire melodramas.

The staff at Computer and Video Games said Night Trap was reminiscent of Dragon's Lair and Space Ace and shared the same issues those games had with gameplay just being a matter of hitting buttons in the right moments.

In retrospect, Night Trap is viewed negatively and is mostly remembered for the controversy it stirred.

Night Trap posted a short video of his Night Trap demo online anonymously, and some gaming websites published stories on the video and contacted Tom Zito to ask if he was involved.

The anniversary edition of Night Trap uses the full uncompressed video footage with various new additions: deleted scenes including an introduction and a death scene featuring Danny, a behind-the-scenes developer commentary, a "theater mode" to watch all the story-related videos, a "survivor mode" which places Augers randomly in the house, and a playable version of Scene of the Crime.