Really? This is good, but, it ain't no Stuart Brown/Ahoy: ua-cam.com/users/XboxAhoyvideos This is one of my personal favorites: Polybius: ua-cam.com/video/_7X6Yeydgyg/v-deo.html
The Game Chasers this is true step it up and be a little more mature (fart jokes, stupid jokes, and acting like your 12 really? Your like mid 30s now,lol) and maybe you'll get more subs! Thus quitting your day jobs and doing YT? Fulltime as you originally intended.
Excellently produced (is "excellently" a word?) documentary, guys! This is quality and professionalism that one does not expect to see on UA-cam. Glad I could help.
I remember those senate hearings. I was 12 years old at the time but I remember that the previous Christmas (or my birthday, sort of fuzzy) I had gotten a Sega CD from my mother and a few games (Sonic CD and Night Trap). I remember that my mother had watched the hearings on CSPAN and actually wanted to take away Night Trap cause of the very ill informed opinions of the senators. She believed them when they said that basically the players job was to kill teenage girls. I had to explain to her that in fact that your job was to protect them from the Augers and that if you fail to do so you get a game over. After she sat and watched me play she realized that the game wasn't nowhere near as nefarious as the senators said. It is a shame that hearing wasn't a forum to discuss and debate the issue but instead as a soap box for those senators to didactically tell people what is right and what is wrong with no evidence to back it up other than manufactured "facts" and inflammatory lies.I am all for the establishment of the rating system, it actually gave legitimacy of Video Games as a valid entertainment medium and I am glad that the hearings actually helped sell more copies of the game but ultimately I think the way it came about was pretty shitty as far as the senators actions went.
Yes! My neighbor got it when the sega CD 2 was released with sewer shark, and he was lucky enough to get the original night trap before it was pulled off the shelves. I did a presentation in high school explaining how NT was not about raping women. Hahaha I was such a nerd...
So much history and new stuff here to learn. Even as someone who's been playing video games for 40+ years and has experienced a ton, it's content like this which continues to expand my knowledge base-- and I'm genuinely grateful for that. What a lot of people who didn't grow up in the 80s and early 90s fail to understand is that FMV was game-changing. The jump in graphics and sound was unbelievable, compared to what else we were playing at the time. Granted, the interactivity was more limited than other quarter/token-munchers at the time, but it was nigh-impossible to walk by an FMV/LD-driven coin-op and not say, "Holy crap! That looks amazing!" We just take it for granted now. Congrats on the release of this video, which I'm sure required a lot of time and effort to coordinate. You do fantastic work, and I wish you continued and greater success as you move forward.
Yeah i know, my chin fell down when i first saw Cyberia, which is pretty much fully interactive, but also fully prerendered. It didn't take me long to catch on to the fact that it was prerendered, but i never stopped enjoying it. Entirely FMV games like Mad Dog McCree tended to be somewhat jarring, but cutscenes in 7Th Guest/ 11th Hour were so fascinating.
The video explains it well, it was just so different and you were just drawn to it. It aged badly quickly and the novelty felt off quick, but that feeling of how advanced it felt when it first came out is hard to explain.
Cool documentary. I liked the part near the end where they showed the old clip of Jim Riley talking saying "in 20 years...". He seems to have a really positive attitude about the project. It's also cool to see a remastered edition actually happening, and I'm proud to have played a small part in it. Tyler Hogle (the real hero in this story) got the clips for the mobile version using a tool I wrote. I'm glad those little things snowballed into a full-blown remaster. Can't wait for release!
Oh! Were you the creator of the SCAT application? I used it a lot to rip the different video files for version comparisons! Thank you for all your hard work and contribution to keeping this game, and other FMV games alive!
I still miss her. I found out her son took his own life in 2010 in the worst way with a shotgun. Dana went out with pills, her son took a shot gun to his head.
Great documentary! Night Trap has a lot of backwards charm and nostalgia for me. It is not a good game but it's certainly memorable, both for its corny, B-Movie fun and for the stir. I was always sort of a tomboy/"bad girl" growing up and much to my mothers dismay, my father frequently fed into my love of media I really shouldn't have been consuming, and my mother got the impression this was somehow the interactive equivalent of "I Spit on your Grave" and how I was NOT to play it, even though she was aware he had already introduced me to Doom and Wolfenstein and all the Freddy & Jason movies. And I still remember when my dad showed up with a copy of the DOS version of the game anyway and was like "Don't tell your mother." We both ended up being caught with it mostly because we ended up laughing at how... well, inoffensive it all was. Yet we kind of adored it anyways.
Amazing work guys. I was never interested in Night Trap (still not), but even from my point of view, this was great. Call me crazy, but I think video documentaries may very well be your future calling. The master class series will eventually be coming to an end, I mean once you get to the 7th gen, you'll be able to stick 3 consoles in a 20 minutes video, so I hope you'll start focusing more on documentaries like this.
[Try4ce] Documentaries absolutely intended to be a major pillar of the channel, but RGB certainly isn't going anywhere, not for many years to come, at least! I feel like the 300 series topics could continue to be endless, though at some point we will indeed possibly run out of console-specific topics.
I have to agree, other than Dragon's Lair and Space Ace I never really got into the FMV hype and even then those games in the arcade were so stinking difficult it was not fun for a kid on a couple of bucks(if that) per visit budget. I just shake my head when my 10 year old want to play Five Nights at Freddy's, I don't watch horror movies that rely entirely on 'attempted' jump scares, why would I want play a game that guarantees one. *shrug*
Me and my BFF played the heck out of some night trap. For about a week or two we played the game once a day and wrote down every trap and code change incident. We used some type of coded symbols so we wouldn't have to spell everything out and use too much paper. Double Switch was cool, but we had only rented it for the weekend and didn't care enough to really sit down and give it a good playthrough. FMV games were a dying breed, and yadda yadda.
Great work! I've always known that Night Trap brings a lot of controversial baggage with it, but I didn't really know why. This clears all that up and helps me understand why it is such a pivotal moment in video game history. Now I'm even more hyped for the remaster!
Excellent quality documentary/interview. I was 12 years old when the original Mortal Kombat was released and my mother would not allow me to play that game. Then years later, when Mortal Kombat 9 out on PS3, she would watch me play as well as perform fatalities. She used to watch me play Ocarina of Time as well. Good times.
I LOVED that final snipped of Riley, predicting the 'behind the scenes' of Night Trap! XD Also that casual announcent! O___O The way Riley discribes Night Trap as an interactive experience where you have influence over the story, but no branching paths and a unified ending reminds me a lot of Telltale games. They basically made a business out of what Night Trap was trying to do and they produce really good games. And the timeline with all the characters having to be at specific place for a specific time got used masterfully in The Sexy Brutale.
Tom Zito promised that Night Trap Revamped would be in high definition and sourced from 35mm film. The NT 25th Anniversary Edition is sort of a homemade project. Holding back the best materials insures a future revenue stream and gamers will still be pleased with the quality of video tape when played on new game systems. And, yes, I know NT is not a cash cow.Even if Tom Zito does not have access to the original 35mm negatives, that does not mean that it and prints struck from it no longer exist. Prints from the silent era are still turning up. Not too long ago a high quality color test film from 1922 featuring several Ziegfeld Follies girls including Mary Eaton (of Marx Brothers fame) was found and even posted to UA-cam.
I never played Night Trap when it came out originally. However after watching this video I have a better understanding of Night Trap and now I want to give the game a shot.
Holy shit, you guys deserve infinitely more views. The quality of your videos are staggering, and this documentary is no exception - in fact, it goes above and beyond your usual high grade content somehow. Between you guys and Ahoy, the UA-cam landscape is producing incredible edutainment content about the gaming industry, and I love it.
I just have to say thank you to everyone involved with Night Trap and the documentary up to this point. This game truly sits with me as one of the best games of all times and I do sincerely hope a Night Trap 2 gets made.
Really, really, really awesome stuff. I hope you keep doing stuff like this :)! PS: The music at 37:56 reminded me of the Batman theme (Danny Elfman), minus the chromatic passing note right before the last note :p (And also somehow reminds me of Transformers) PS2: I can't believe that footage about him saying he'd get interviewed in the future hahah
Thanks for making this, guys. Very interesting and informative. Right when it was mentioned being in this one location as mostly an observer, I thought Five Nights (as I imagine many other viewers did). I wonder if Scott Cawthon was a Night Trap fan?
I played night trap using a sega cd emulator last 2011 and I thought the gameplay was limited but cool. Little did I know that the game stuck in my mind until this very day. When i knew of a small company called limited run developing a sharper look of the game, my excitement went to the roof.
So I was 9 years old when those senate hearings were going on, living in Canada. I remember wanting to play night trap because I specifically believed that the hearing lied about every other game, and were probably lying about that too. I was genuinely hurt to hear how games were discussed, because of how much joy they brought to me and my brothers. D was probably the Only fmv game I ever loved, but Revolution x in arcades was pretty alright too...I gotta be honest though, I’m glad they died. I spent the better part of a year fretting that all games would go the fmv route, still glad I was wrong
They've gone after comic books, movies, television and video games. All they did was to spotlight bold creativity and help create shopping lists. Thank you Video Nasties. Thank you Joe & all the rest.
I loved this documentary. I was about 11 years old when Night Trap came out. My parents actually paid attention to what I was playing so I wasn't allowed to get it. Also the Sega CD was just too much money in their eyes. I already had a Sega Genesis and that was good enough lol. Now that I'm in my 30's I'm really interested in trying this game out.
Also retro-relevant to a lot of us who look nostalgically to the 90's/early aughts: Tyler Hogel, the producer of the new Night Trap release, was in a nu metal band called "V-Mob". As best I can tell, they came *THIS* close to receiving a major label record deal, and apparently played with many big name metal bands back in the day. Even (hed) pe opened for them. Say what you will about the stylings of nu metal, but I thought that was a neat tidbit.
tyler hogle I hope you're not bothered by my revelation. I like a lot of the music of that Era, like Primer 55. I really like the samples of your music I heard! And, as a devoted retro gamer, I have a huge respect for what you're doing with Night Trap . Embrace it, man!
Night Trap is so tame. It's also a decent game. Definitely worth experiencing if you're a fan of early FMV games. The 25th anniversary version is super sharp, it looks awesome.
Color me floored! This sort of quality is something one would expect on youtube--meh, you've heard that far too many times. Super hyped for the game's (PC) release!
I can't wait for the PS4 release. If I knew of the backer, I would have participated. I played the game as a kid in my pre-teens, and it fascinated me. I never beat the game and found it hard for me to succeed. Yet I played it over and over again hoping to maybe do something differently than I did before. Now is my chance to finally have a crack at it now that I'm older. Oh and Night Trap 2? I'll pre-order it right now! Looking forward to this and the 2nd one. The ending part was awesome where he talked about someone wanting to interview him for night trap. Lol
Amazing documentary and easily the best video you have ever put together! I played Night Trap back in the day but knew nothing of it's creation and significance, I learned quite a bit. Again great job, and more like this please.
This is one of the best video game related videos I've seen in ages. Really, really stellar work dude. I was entertained as much as riveted by the information provided. Kudos dude. Kudos.
It’s sad that those politicians were not talking about the slumber party massacre movies where there’s a killer with a drill killing women in a house. But the makers of that movie were not brought to the Senate subcommittee hearing. They actually had the balls to say the object of the game is the trap the women and sexuality, which is complete and utter bullshit. Do you remember how gamers would throw down the controller when they failed or were beaten? I had a dark pit in my heart when I let the girls die that I failed to protect. And that sell out Howard Lincoln swore that Nintendo would never have a version of “Night Trap” on their systems, Fast forward to 2017, “Night Trap 25th anniversary edition” is released on the Nintendo Switch! It sucks to be wrong than it is to be right!
I love this game. I mean, a lot of people don’t, and I accept it’s flawed, but I played the Mega CD version a couple of years back and absolutely loved it. The video looked awful, but the gameplay was fun and it was challenging to try and catch the Augers. I’ll definitely have to pick up the new release with it’s HQ video, especially since it has a playable demo of Scene of the Crime.
My boss Hal Halpin actually testified at the hearings. I remember our warehouse had to stop shipment of thousands of copies of the game because of this bullshit. We were one of the biggest distributors back then and had our own magazine. VGA, was a golden age.
I’ve heard of Night Trap before the release to modern consoles and it’s a game I always wanted to play but never had the consoles to play it on and was really hard to find. Then I was on Jacksepticeyes channel and he was play the re release of Night Trap and I downloaded the game within 15 minutes and Night Trap is very different from other games I’ve played in a good way and I actually did beat it once but not perfectly but hopefully one day I will get a perfect score.
It would be interesting to see someone make a full retrospective on the Tex Murphy series - another incredibly important FMV game series that has always been very interactive. Really just more retrospectives on FMV games in general would be great to see.
that was a great video never played night trap but i have heard of it before. I didnt know how revolutionary it was at the time . It baffles me how the rating systems of games have evolved. thanks again for making this video I cant stress that enough.
I came across this documentary having watched Jeremy Jahns 'Night Trap' review and my word am I glad I clicked on!! Sega and it's Mega-Drive / Mega-CD was a massive part of my childhood and I remember my parents refusing to let me buy both Night Trap or Sewer Shark, but I got them via school friends, many, many hours of gaming was enjoyed! To see this documentary in 2020 is incredible! So many memories and a fascinating story being told by the makers, absolutely brilliant! Thank you! Kris, 37, UK
WOW !! this belongs on NETFLIX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Never seen anything more perfectly produced documentary on youtube. you just set the bar so high.
You haven't seen many documentaries I'm sure
Really?
This is good, but, it ain't no Stuart Brown/Ahoy: ua-cam.com/users/XboxAhoyvideos
This is one of my personal favorites: Polybius:
ua-cam.com/video/_7X6Yeydgyg/v-deo.html
I was going to write the same thing bud. I totally agree with you
netflix is shit
Netflix? Netflix is shit. Just full of interracial dating and white genocide propaganda :(
Wow. This quality doesn't belong on youtube. We are not worthy.
The Game Chasers this belongs in HBO.
The Game Chasers this is true step it up and be a little more mature (fart jokes, stupid jokes, and acting like your 12 really? Your like mid 30s now,lol) and maybe you'll get more subs! Thus quitting your day jobs and doing YT? Fulltime as you originally intended.
The Game Chasers awesome video
Excellently produced (is "excellently" a word?) documentary, guys! This is quality and professionalism that one does not expect to see on UA-cam. Glad I could help.
Nothing better than seeing my favorite UA-cam channels supporting eachother!
You guys are awesome! When I saw the title, I could not stop thinking about Game Sack's episode about FMV games lol.
I need More Gaming in my Life Sack.
THIS IS VERY WELL MADE DOCUMENTARY
I remember those senate hearings. I was 12 years old at the time but I remember that the previous Christmas (or my birthday, sort of fuzzy) I had gotten a Sega CD from my mother and a few games (Sonic CD and Night Trap). I remember that my mother had watched the hearings on CSPAN and actually wanted to take away Night Trap cause of the very ill informed opinions of the senators. She believed them when they said that basically the players job was to kill teenage girls. I had to explain to her that in fact that your job was to protect them from the Augers and that if you fail to do so you get a game over. After she sat and watched me play she realized that the game wasn't nowhere near as nefarious as the senators said. It is a shame that hearing wasn't a forum to discuss and debate the issue but instead as a soap box for those senators to didactically tell people what is right and what is wrong with no evidence to back it up other than manufactured "facts" and inflammatory lies.I am all for the establishment of the rating system, it actually gave legitimacy of Video Games as a valid entertainment medium and I am glad that the hearings actually helped sell more copies of the game but ultimately I think the way it came about was pretty shitty as far as the senators actions went.
Yes! My neighbor got it when the sega CD 2 was released with sewer shark, and he was lucky enough to get the original night trap before it was pulled off the shelves. I did a presentation in high school explaining how NT was not about raping women. Hahaha I was such a nerd...
I'm glad to now know thanks to you that people weren't quick to belieiving in bs in 1992
Oh lord I remember when they first learned about Mortal Kombat
After watching this I feel like Night Trap deserves more respect than it normally gets, a lot of hard work went into this.
Well DUH
Even shitty games are involved with hard work! Many bad games today aren't bad because of the developers, but because of mismanagement!
@@nowonmetube The whole idea of the game was cool the problem was that they had to remove a lot of things of the game to make it look family friendly
It’s kind of stupid as a video game but I still rather enjoy it
Outstanding work. Great job, Coury, Marc, and everyone else involved.
Pat the NES Punk Hey Pat, I love your channel. Ian is a cool dude.
Ay pat, did not expect ya, love your vids and your podcast, say hi to ian for me
Pat the NES Punk hey can't stand you pat.
Bugger off Pat
Hii, Pat, so nice to see you, my man.
Still freaking out over the announcement near the end. VR!? insane.
John Riggs: RIGG'd Games I know right! Best part of the video. Fingers crossed it see's the light of day
So much history and new stuff here to learn. Even as someone who's been playing video games for 40+ years and has experienced a ton, it's content like this which continues to expand my knowledge base-- and I'm genuinely grateful for that.
What a lot of people who didn't grow up in the 80s and early 90s fail to understand is that FMV was game-changing. The jump in graphics and sound was unbelievable, compared to what else we were playing at the time. Granted, the interactivity was more limited than other quarter/token-munchers at the time, but it was nigh-impossible to walk by an FMV/LD-driven coin-op and not say, "Holy crap! That looks amazing!" We just take it for granted now.
Congrats on the release of this video, which I'm sure required a lot of time and effort to coordinate. You do fantastic work, and I wish you continued and greater success as you move forward.
Yeah i know, my chin fell down when i first saw Cyberia, which is pretty much fully interactive, but also fully prerendered. It didn't take me long to catch on to the fact that it was prerendered, but i never stopped enjoying it. Entirely FMV games like Mad Dog McCree tended to be somewhat jarring, but cutscenes in 7Th Guest/ 11th Hour were so fascinating.
The video explains it well, it was just so different and you were just drawn to it. It aged badly quickly and the novelty felt off quick, but that feeling of how advanced it felt when it first came out is hard to explain.
Cool documentary. I liked the part near the end where they showed the old clip of Jim Riley talking saying "in 20 years...". He seems to have a really positive attitude about the project.
It's also cool to see a remastered edition actually happening, and I'm proud to have played a small part in it. Tyler Hogle (the real hero in this story) got the clips for the mobile version using a tool I wrote. I'm glad those little things snowballed into a full-blown remaster. Can't wait for release!
Oh! Were you the creator of the SCAT application? I used it a lot to rip the different video files for version comparisons! Thank you for all your hard work and contribution to keeping this game, and other FMV games alive!
RIP Dana Plato
I still miss her. I found out her son took his own life in 2010 in the worst way with a shotgun. Dana went out with pills, her son took a shot gun to his head.
Great documentary! Night Trap has a lot of backwards charm and nostalgia for me. It is not a good game but it's certainly memorable, both for its corny, B-Movie fun and for the stir. I was always sort of a tomboy/"bad girl" growing up and much to my mothers dismay, my father frequently fed into my love of media I really shouldn't have been consuming, and my mother got the impression this was somehow the interactive equivalent of "I Spit on your Grave" and how I was NOT to play it, even though she was aware he had already introduced me to Doom and Wolfenstein and all the Freddy & Jason movies. And I still remember when my dad showed up with a copy of the DOS version of the game anyway and was like "Don't tell your mother." We both ended up being caught with it mostly because we ended up laughing at how... well, inoffensive it all was. Yet we kind of adored it anyways.
You had me at Night Trap.
They had me at Hanukkah.
Jimathy Sanderz blocked. Banned.
The influence this game has had is incredible. It's half or more of why we have the ESRB. The effects of the ESRB cannot be underestimate.
@@adventuresinnostalgia it's right?
Night Trap 2?! Sign me up!
I'm interested in Night Trap 2... just not sold on the VR stuff yet lol.
One of the finest documentaries of the 21st Century.
Ye
Amazing work guys. I was never interested in Night Trap (still not), but even from my point of view, this was great. Call me crazy, but I think video documentaries may very well be your future calling. The master class series will eventually be coming to an end, I mean once you get to the 7th gen, you'll be able to stick 3 consoles in a 20 minutes video, so I hope you'll start focusing more on documentaries like this.
[Try4ce] Documentaries absolutely intended to be a major pillar of the channel, but RGB certainly isn't going anywhere, not for many years to come, at least! I feel like the 300 series topics could continue to be endless, though at some point we will indeed possibly run out of console-specific topics.
I have to agree, other than Dragon's Lair and Space Ace I never really got into the FMV hype and even then those games in the arcade were so stinking difficult it was not fun for a kid on a couple of bucks(if that) per visit budget. I just shake my head when my 10 year old want to play Five Nights at Freddy's, I don't watch horror movies that rely entirely on 'attempted' jump scares, why would I want play a game that guarantees one. *shrug*
I wasn't really a fan of Night Trap back in the day but this documentary was super interesting and so well put together. Great stuff!
Absolutely fantastic. Thanks for making this!
2 of my favorite youtubers getting along
Watching this makes me really appreciate how far we've come in video games.
Thank you so much for making this documentary! My brother other I played this and Double Switch on the Sega CD. Great memories.
Me and my BFF played the heck out of some night trap. For about a week or two we played the game once a day and wrote down every trap and code change incident. We used some type of coded symbols so we wouldn't have to spell everything out and use too much paper.
Double Switch was cool, but we had only rented it for the weekend and didn't care enough to really sit down and give it a good playthrough. FMV games were a dying breed, and yadda yadda.
17:59 30 years ago today.
:')
And so was Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up"
I want mk
Great work! I've always known that Night Trap brings a lot of controversial baggage with it, but I didn't really know why. This clears all that up and helps me understand why it is such a pivotal moment in video game history. Now I'm even more hyped for the remaster!
Excellent quality documentary/interview. I was 12 years old when the original Mortal Kombat was released and my mother would not allow me to play that game. Then years later, when Mortal Kombat 9 out on PS3, she would watch me play as well as perform fatalities. She used to watch me play Ocarina of Time as well. Good times.
36:55 - 37:00 Hey I'm in this video!! :) thanks guys! :D
I LOVED that final snipped of Riley, predicting the 'behind the scenes' of Night Trap! XD
Also that casual announcent! O___O
The way Riley discribes Night Trap as an interactive experience where you have influence over the story, but no branching paths and a unified ending reminds me a lot of Telltale games. They basically made a business out of what Night Trap was trying to do and they produce really good games.
And the timeline with all the characters having to be at specific place for a specific time got used masterfully in The Sexy Brutale.
I... LOVE this channel!!! Thank you so much for documenting this amazing bit of history!!! :D
Tom Zito promised that Night Trap Revamped would be in high definition and sourced from 35mm film. The NT 25th Anniversary Edition is sort of a homemade project. Holding back the best materials insures a future revenue stream and gamers will still be pleased with the quality of video tape when played on new game systems. And, yes, I know NT is not a cash cow.Even if Tom Zito does not have access to the original 35mm negatives, that does not mean that it and prints struck from it no longer exist. Prints from the silent era are still turning up. Not too long ago a high quality color test film from 1922 featuring several Ziegfeld Follies girls including Mary Eaton (of Marx Brothers fame) was found and even posted to UA-cam.
I never played Night Trap when it came out originally. However after watching this video I have a better understanding of Night Trap and now I want to give the game a shot.
Jeremy Jahns sent me
This was VERY well done. id expect a documentary like this at a film fest. thoroughly enjoyed it
Omg I love Jeremy Parish. Also your production quality is very good, better than most would be filmmakers.
Also the story of Dana Plato is super sad.
Holy shit, you guys deserve infinitely more views. The quality of your videos are staggering, and this documentary is no exception - in fact, it goes above and beyond your usual high grade content somehow. Between you guys and Ahoy, the UA-cam landscape is producing incredible edutainment content about the gaming industry, and I love it.
This was really great. Please PLEASE do more video game documentaries/retrospectives in future! 🙂
I just have to say thank you to everyone involved with Night Trap and the documentary up to this point. This game truly sits with me as one of the best games of all times and I do sincerely hope a Night Trap 2 gets made.
Supreme Warrior & Dracula Unleashed were my favorite fmv games!
Netflix quality content! Thank you very much for this documentary.
Great work Coury and Marc! My birthday is coming up and I can't wait to purchase NT for the PS4 via LIMITED RUN.
Really, really, really awesome stuff. I hope you keep doing stuff like this :)!
PS: The music at 37:56 reminded me of the Batman theme (Danny Elfman), minus the chromatic passing note right before the last note :p (And also somehow reminds me of Transformers)
PS2: I can't believe that footage about him saying he'd get interviewed in the future hahah
awesome documentary guys,and thanks for the spanish subtitle, greetings from Southamerica
Thanks for making this, guys. Very interesting and informative. Right when it was mentioned being in this one location as mostly an observer, I thought Five Nights (as I imagine many other viewers did). I wonder if Scott Cawthon was a Night Trap fan?
I played night trap using a sega cd emulator last 2011 and I thought the gameplay was limited but cool. Little did I know that the game stuck in my mind until this very day. When i knew of a small company called limited run developing a sharper look of the game, my excitement went to the roof.
Seriously, please make more content guys. Your stuff is awesome!
NIGHT TRAP 2???? IN VR...???
A doc up there with Gaming Historian quality.
So I was 9 years old when those senate hearings were going on, living in Canada. I remember wanting to play night trap because I specifically believed that the hearing lied about every other game, and were probably lying about that too. I was genuinely hurt to hear how games were discussed, because of how much joy they brought to me and my brothers. D was probably the Only fmv game I ever loved, but Revolution x in arcades was pretty alright too...I gotta be honest though, I’m glad they died. I spent the better part of a year fretting that all games would go the fmv route, still glad I was wrong
This was so cool to see, grew up playing the Sega CD version and I turned out fine lol
This was spectacular, really can't begin to explain how much I enjoyed this and just how great it was. Congratulations!
👍if Jeremy Jahns brought you here
Quickly becoming my favourite UA-cam channel, I feel like I should be paying a subscription for such professionalism
They've gone after comic books, movies, television and video games. All they did was to spotlight bold creativity and help create shopping lists. Thank you Video Nasties. Thank you Joe & all the rest.
Luv how James Riley is getting a second chance in this Night Trap era
Man u guys have really outdone yourselves with this one! Simply incredible! Thank you!
woooo.. 50min video about night trap.... I´m gonna make a coffee and have a nerd night!!!
Outstanding Documentary :-D Was glued to my screen remember the great times playing this on mega CD.
Cant wait for Night Trap 2 now :-O
cant wait for night trap 2
I loved this documentary. I was about 11 years old when Night Trap came out. My parents actually paid attention to what I was playing so I wasn't allowed to get it. Also the Sega CD was just too much money in their eyes. I already had a Sega Genesis and that was good enough lol. Now that I'm in my 30's I'm really interested in trying this game out.
Didn’t know about y’all before Jeremy jahns! Glad I have another channel to obsess over 😁
Also retro-relevant to a lot of us who look nostalgically to the 90's/early aughts: Tyler Hogel, the producer of the new Night Trap release, was in a nu metal band called "V-Mob". As best I can tell, they came *THIS* close to receiving a major label record deal, and apparently played with many big name metal bands back in the day. Even (hed) pe opened for them. Say what you will about the stylings of nu metal, but I thought that was a neat tidbit.
Oh dear haha
tyler hogle I hope you're not bothered by my revelation. I like a lot of the music of that Era, like Primer 55. I really like the samples of your music I heard! And, as a devoted retro gamer, I have a huge respect for what you're doing with Night Trap . Embrace it, man!
Oh no not at all. It's just funny that I still hear about that band when we broke up 14 years ago.
BRING BACK V-MOB The world would be a better place!
Nicely done! Hope you make more like this.
Loved this video! Thanks for the memories and can't wait to get it on PS4 when it releases
Night Trap is so tame. It's also a decent game. Definitely worth experiencing if you're a fan of early FMV games. The 25th anniversary version is super sharp, it looks awesome.
Color me floored! This sort of quality is something one would expect on youtube--meh, you've heard that far too many times. Super hyped for the game's (PC) release!
I can't wait for the PS4 release. If I knew of the backer, I would have participated. I played the game as a kid in my pre-teens, and it fascinated me. I never beat the game and found it hard for me to succeed. Yet I played it over and over again hoping to maybe do something differently than I did before. Now is my chance to finally have a crack at it now that I'm older. Oh and Night Trap 2? I'll pre-order it right now! Looking forward to this and the 2nd one.
The ending part was awesome where he talked about someone wanting to interview him for night trap. Lol
Never ever thought I'd find myself captivated by a Night Trap doc! This was so well-made.
Amazing documentary and easily the best video you have ever put together! I played Night Trap back in the day but knew nothing of it's creation and significance, I learned quite a bit. Again great job, and more like this please.
Top notch quality all around. The editing, humor, history, writing, everything! Even the last pieces during the credits were fantastic!
Stellar work, guys, wow! Twenty five years from now: Night Trap 2 VR documentary by My Life In Gaming!
How the hell did I not know that my favorite FMV game, Double Switch, was remastered?! I even own the Saturn port of this game!
It's cool but flawed. Sadly, I was only given 4 weeks to develop it.
As of now is only 1.49 bucks in the Nintendo eShop.
This makes me feel so bad for Dana Plato. She was so young when she died.
Great job on the video. Had never heard of the channel but glad I stumbled upon you. Subbed 👍🏼
Wow, Amazing doco guys
What a superb documentary. Easily good enough for mainstream tv.
This is one of the best video game related videos I've seen in ages. Really, really stellar work dude. I was entertained as much as riveted by the information provided. Kudos dude. Kudos.
Can't wait for Night Trap 2.
It’s sad that those politicians were not talking about the slumber party massacre movies where there’s a killer with a drill killing women in a house. But the makers of that movie were not brought to the Senate subcommittee hearing. They actually had the balls to say the object of the game is the trap the women and sexuality, which is complete and utter bullshit. Do you remember how gamers would throw down the controller when they failed or were beaten? I had a dark pit in my heart when I let the girls die that I failed to protect. And that sell out Howard Lincoln swore that Nintendo would never have a version of “Night Trap” on their systems, Fast forward to 2017, “Night Trap 25th anniversary edition” is released on the Nintendo Switch! It sucks to be wrong than it is to be right!
Wow! This was really well made guys. good stuff.
For the love of God: MLIG blu-ray. Also my phone auto-corrected to MILF when I typed it the first time. I need help.
This was really well done. Thanks for sharing!
It was my first game for the Sega CD back in '93, I played it all of the time...so great and innovative.
That.was.fantastic. 46:00 made me hit the floor.
I love this game. I mean, a lot of people don’t, and I accept it’s flawed, but I played the Mega CD version a couple of years back and absolutely loved it. The video looked awful, but the gameplay was fun and it was challenging to try and catch the Augers. I’ll definitely have to pick up the new release with it’s HQ video, especially since it has a playable demo of Scene of the Crime.
Good shit!
My boss Hal Halpin actually testified at the hearings. I remember our warehouse had to stop shipment of thousands of copies of the game because of this bullshit. We were one of the biggest distributors back then and had our own magazine. VGA, was a golden age.
Haha, thank you for including a secret ending. I don't think any video is complete without it.
Robby Huang my friends and I used to always goof on the aug-walk, so that ending made me pee my pants laughing!
There isn't a word I know to describe how amazing this video is
Dang, they could've made a similar game using footage from Killer Klowns From Outer Space 🤣 awesome cult classic.
This deserves more views. It's an excellent documentary and an absolute honor for everyone involved with Night Trap.
I’ve heard of Night Trap before the release to modern consoles and it’s a game I always wanted to play but never had the consoles to play it on and was really hard to find. Then I was on Jacksepticeyes channel and he was play the re release of Night Trap and I downloaded the game within 15 minutes and Night Trap is very different from other games I’ve played in a good way and I actually did beat it once but not perfectly but hopefully one day I will get a perfect score.
That theme song may be silly, but it's better than 90% of todays dull pop. Love is easy by the light of day, You get the boys to play away! =D
It would be interesting to see someone make a full retrospective on the Tex Murphy series - another incredibly important FMV game series that has always been very interactive. Really just more retrospectives on FMV games in general would be great to see.
This was excellent, thank you!
that was a great video never played night trap but i have heard of it before. I didnt know how revolutionary it was at the time . It baffles me how the rating systems of games have evolved. thanks again for making this video I cant stress that enough.
Shot 35mm, you say? Time for a UHD 4K HDR Blu-ray release!
1:56 Fun fact:in the background we can see the Club Nintendo history of nintendo handhelds card set
I’m here because Jeremy Jahns suggested it. Great documentary about a very intriguing concept/game.
Dear god, the editing and LOVE that went into this video! You guys are astounding, and your research and post work is superb. Amazing watch.
this was something really special. great job guys.
The four thumbs down are probably Joe Lieberman and three of his buddies.
I came across this documentary having watched Jeremy Jahns 'Night Trap' review and my word am I glad I clicked on!! Sega and it's Mega-Drive / Mega-CD was a massive part of my childhood and I remember my parents refusing to let me buy both Night Trap or Sewer Shark, but I got them via school friends, many, many hours of gaming was enjoyed! To see this documentary in 2020 is incredible! So many memories and a fascinating story being told by the makers, absolutely brilliant! Thank you! Kris, 37, UK
flat out one of the best videos I saw in 2017. Thank you very much!