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...
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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*
Must be one of the best videos on this platform. Was so excited to see it. I've been a massive fan of the game and it's creators almost my whole life. I was like 10 when I first heard about it. After the controversy it was all anyone at school was talking about. Unfortunately no one could afford the equipment to play it on. Years later when the Playstation came out, I was able to trade my spare and a copy of Resident Evil for a 3DO, then spent like $70 on a complete copy of Night Trap from Ebay. I fell in love before I even played it. Not only with Night Trap, but with Digital Pictures and FMV games in general. I even ordered a VHS of digital pictures upcoming games long before I played any of them. When my 3DO broke about 6 or 7 years ago, that was the game I knew I'd miss the most. Thank God for the 25th anniversary edition. That's a dream come true. I've been going crazy playing it. Must've done 50 runs and God knows how many different deaths and scenarios since launch. Despite the controversy, and mostly bad reviews, the game is legendary in my mind and the minds of some others. I really never cared what anyone else thought. I'm glad some of the younger generation gets to see what passed as violent back in the day. Compare that to now. There's time I WISH the game was as horrible as they said. Would've been awesome lol. This turned me on to a lot of good stuff like Gabriel Knight and Texas Murphy...lots. Regardless, great job guys, I'm glad you are keeping our shared history alive.
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.
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
Finally got around to finishing this. Awesome. Superb quality, guys. Loved the mid credits "interview" segment. Did not expect to find my name in the credits because of Patreon. What an unexpected surprise.
Wow, I am speechless. So much interesting information in here, and the editing was phenomenal as always. Definitely going to have to track down a copy of the remaster now.
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.
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.
In my career as an interactive designer, I was lucky enough to work under producer Jim Simmons, who worked for disney & hasbro in the 80s/90s including direct involvement with Night Trap from its early days on the Nemo, right through to its eventual release. Many fascinating stories about DP & Zito. Nice video btw :)
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.
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!
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.
NO WAY MAN!!! I can't believe they made a 25th anniversary version. You have no idea how sick of this game I was back in the 90's when I discovered this game on Sega CD. Thanks so much for making this clip pal! I very appreciate it.
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.
Fantastic Job guys. Just Got my Limited Run Night Trap Collectors Edition and I'm super stoked! Of course my favorite FMV game is Double Switch. My fingers are crossed for a similar remastered release :)
L1Games Hell yeah, Double Switch was more way more playable and the storyline actually pretty intriguing. Plus the brunette in that game when I was like 13 was, let's just say..."TOO SWEET" (Co. BC)
Was there any attempt to trace or reach out to any of the cast members? I know James Riley talks a bit about the filming process but it might have been interesting to hear from the actors viewpoint. How they viewed the project, how they feel about their contribution 25 years on? Obviously, Dana Plato was the 'name' and its sad what happened to her, but there might have been some other stories there with other contributors. Is a great docu that you should be proud of.
[Coury] Yeah, we tried several different actors but couldn't make it work with any of them or, in the cases with the actors, we got no response at all. Thankfully James Riley was kind enough to give us as much time as we wanted (the raw interview was 2 hours long), and he was an absolutely fantastic interviewee.
[Try4ce] We really tried to get an actor or actress, but kept running into dead ends. The timing also didn't work out for anyone else involved in the production side. We would've loved to have made that happen, but it just wasn't possible.
Holy crap, that was incredible. I played the hell out of the Sega CD version and was not all that interested in this release, but this totally changed my mind. Also sweet to see the credit on the Patreon roll at the end:)
This is probably the best documentary concerning this game i ever watched, i only wish there was even more behind the scenes footage and i could easily listen to James Riley talk about his experience shooting the footage for the game all day long, the guy is truly intriguing and a trailblazer . Wait a minute, Night Trap 2 , you're kidding me , just made my year
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
I love your content, but this by far is the one of the best videos you've made that I didn't know I needed! The behind the scenes and original version footage is amazing and I'm so glad you got access to it! (This next part is semi-joking, but makes me a little panicky, however.) If I had know you had been working on this, I wish you'd have waited to release it at least 24 hours after the first day that Limited Run puts their physical re-release on sale! Now I'm going to have to treat it like trying to get a NES or SNES Mini because I'm sure that the positive buzz you're already getting for this documentary will make the scalpers I might have to tentatively fight against be ever more eager to make their quick $60-100 over original cost if I don't treat this like I have to be up at 3am to guarantee a copy of the game. Seriously though, I was already in panicky alert mode on day one of the original news of the new version, so I would have been acting like this anyways, so again, wow, I appreciate all the effort that was put into this and look forward to more of these in the future.
[Try4ce] The good news is that Limited Run is making this a really big run! I'm pretty sure it's their biggest to date. You'll still want to be there on time, refreshing the page, but to be honest as long as I remembered to be at my computer on time, I've never had trouble getting any Limited Run I wanted.
My Life in Gaming Limited Run Games is doing a 5,000 copy release. They've had a number of other titles with the same print run as they are giving Night Trap. I'm honestly disappointed they are not printing more as the interest in this release is very high compared to their past releases and a lot of gamers are going to lose out to scalpers. Especially as on this release, they are still allowing the purchase of two copies for the first batch when they should be allowing only one to give more people an opportunity to purchase it.
I'm screwed as I'll be attempting via my iPhone as I'm at work when both halves of the order batch are open for sale. Seeing as Wonder Boy sold out in two minutes and is already being put up on eBay by scalpers for 3-4 times the price, I have no chance of getting Night Trap...
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.
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.
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
Wow, this may be the best produced doc I’ve seen made exclusively for UA-cam! I’m stunned. I’ve always liked Night Trap (although I always liked Double Switch more) and this gave me even more appreciation for the game. Well done!
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.
Congratulations on the documentary, and huge thank-yous to everyone that helped make it happen, both in front of and behind the camera. Our sphere's collective history is just a little better understood with every artifact like this.
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.
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.
Great stuff. Thanks for this. I have exceptionally fond memories of playing and/or mapping out this game with my college roommates. I'm definitely looking forward to the upcoming re-release!
awesome video, very well made. This was a game as a kid i could never play because i never had a Sega CD but i wanted it so badly. Of course i got to check it out years later and love the campyness and silliness of it. That type of stuff is right up my alley.
Blown away. I can not believe there will be a remastered version of this game for the PS4. Fingers crossed I can get a copy when it's released. Great job guys, this was so interesting and fun to watch. That Aug walk at the end had me in stitches 👍👍👍👍
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
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
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
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!
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
Night Trap 2?! Sign me up!
I'm interested in Night Trap 2... just not sold on the VR stuff yet lol.
Absolutely fantastic. Thanks for making this!
2 of my favorite youtubers getting along
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?
36:55 - 37:00 Hey I'm in this video!! :) thanks guys! :D
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!
Top notch quality all around. The editing, humor, history, writing, everything! Even the last pieces during the credits were fantastic!
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*
17:59 30 years ago today.
:')
And so was Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up"
I want mk
1:56 Fun fact:in the background we can see the Club Nintendo history of nintendo handhelds card set
Must be one of the best videos on this platform. Was so excited to see it. I've been a massive fan of the game and it's creators almost my whole life.
I was like 10 when I first heard about it. After the controversy it was all anyone at school was talking about. Unfortunately no one could afford the equipment to play it on.
Years later when the Playstation came out, I was able to trade my spare and a copy of Resident Evil for a 3DO, then spent like $70 on a complete copy of Night Trap from Ebay. I fell in love before I even played it. Not only with Night Trap, but with Digital Pictures and FMV games in general. I even ordered a VHS of digital pictures upcoming games long before I played any of them.
When my 3DO broke about 6 or 7 years ago, that was the game I knew I'd miss the most. Thank God for the 25th anniversary edition. That's a dream come true. I've been going crazy playing it. Must've done 50 runs and God knows how many different deaths and scenarios since launch.
Despite the controversy, and mostly bad reviews, the game is legendary in my mind and the minds of some others. I really never cared what anyone else thought. I'm glad some of the younger generation gets to see what passed as violent back in the day. Compare that to now.
There's time I WISH the game was as horrible as they said. Would've been awesome lol. This turned me on to a lot of good stuff like Gabriel Knight and Texas Murphy...lots. Regardless, great job guys, I'm glad you are keeping our shared history alive.
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.
One of the finest documentaries of the 21st Century.
Ye
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 makes me feel so bad for Dana Plato. She was so young when she died.
Never ever thought I'd find myself captivated by a Night Trap doc! This was so well-made.
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
This is your best work yet. Especially loved the interlacing work on the b-roll in the first segments. Really fun and informative.
Nicely done! Hope you make more like this.
Great stuff! Really informative.
This deserves more views. It's an excellent documentary and an absolute honor for everyone involved with Night Trap.
Finally got around to finishing this. Awesome. Superb quality, guys. Loved the mid credits "interview" segment. Did not expect to find my name in the credits because of Patreon. What an unexpected surprise.
Wow, I am speechless. So much interesting information in here, and the editing was phenomenal as always. Definitely going to have to track down a copy of the remaster now.
I... LOVE this channel!!! Thank you so much for documenting this amazing bit of history!!! :D
Stellar work, guys, wow! Twenty five years from now: Night Trap 2 VR documentary by My Life In Gaming!
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
You guys are really raising the bar with every documentary you make. Well done!
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.
Watching this makes me really appreciate how far we've come in video games.
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.
In my career as an interactive designer, I was lucky enough to work under producer Jim Simmons, who worked for disney & hasbro in the 80s/90s including direct involvement with Night Trap from its early days on the Nemo, right through to its eventual release. Many fascinating stories about DP & Zito. Nice video btw :)
This documentary should be included with the game!
Amazing work!
Gribbman it is
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.
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!
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.
The quality of content you guys produce is for lack of better term, astounding. Loved every second of this video. Phenomenal work guys!
NO WAY MAN!!! I can't believe they made a 25th anniversary version. You have no idea how sick of this game I was back in the 90's when I discovered this game on Sega CD. Thanks so much for making this clip pal! I very appreciate it.
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.
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.
Fantastic Job guys. Just Got my Limited Run Night Trap Collectors Edition and I'm super stoked!
Of course my favorite FMV game is Double Switch. My fingers are crossed for a similar remastered release :)
L1Games Hell yeah, Double Switch was more way more playable and the storyline actually pretty intriguing. Plus the brunette in that game when I was like 13 was, let's just say..."TOO SWEET" (Co. BC)
Eddie? -Lyle
Wow the quality on this video is amazing. Had me glued to the screen the whole time. Great job guys!
Was there any attempt to trace or reach out to any of the cast members? I know James Riley talks a bit about the filming process but it might have been interesting to hear from the actors viewpoint. How they viewed the project, how they feel about their contribution 25 years on? Obviously, Dana Plato was the 'name' and its sad what happened to her, but there might have been some other stories there with other contributors. Is a great docu that you should be proud of.
[Coury] Yeah, we tried several different actors but couldn't make it work with any of them or, in the cases with the actors, we got no response at all. Thankfully James Riley was kind enough to give us as much time as we wanted (the raw interview was 2 hours long), and he was an absolutely fantastic interviewee.
[Try4ce] We really tried to get an actor or actress, but kept running into dead ends. The timing also didn't work out for anyone else involved in the production side. We would've loved to have made that happen, but it just wasn't possible.
Holy crap, that was incredible. I played the hell out of the Sega CD version and was not all that interested in this release, but this totally changed my mind. Also sweet to see the credit on the Patreon roll at the end:)
Excellent work, guys! Very professional and high quality editing. You deserve way more subs.
This is probably the best documentary concerning this game i ever watched, i only wish there was even more behind the scenes footage and i could easily listen to James Riley talk about his experience shooting the footage for the game all day long, the guy is truly intriguing and a trailblazer .
Wait a minute, Night Trap 2 , you're kidding me , just made my year
How has this only got 200K views after 5 years? I have only just discovered this channel but you guys have been knocking it out of the park for years.
This was so well done! MLiG are by far the best retro gaming channel on UA-cam
This was a fascinating documentary. I just discovered your channel a little while back and I'm loving the content so far. You guys are the real deal.
This was really great. Please PLEASE do more video game documentaries/retrospectives in future! 🙂
This is so well done. So glad I found this channel. Some thing to be proud of for sure. Thanks for making this.
Great work with this guys. And it was so awesome they are talking about Night Trap 2. This was one of your top videos yet
Finest work you have done so far. I look forward to any future docs you do on other games.
Excellent work, I decided to pull the trigger on Patreon after seeing all the work put into this and your other great videos.
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
I love your content, but this by far is the one of the best videos you've made that I didn't know I needed! The behind the scenes
and original version footage is amazing and I'm so glad you got access to it! (This next part is semi-joking, but makes me a little panicky, however.) If I had know you had been working on this, I wish you'd have waited to release it at least 24 hours after the first day that Limited Run puts their physical re-release on sale! Now I'm going to have to treat it like trying to get a NES or SNES Mini because I'm sure that the positive buzz you're already getting for this documentary will make the scalpers I might have to tentatively fight against be ever more eager to make their quick $60-100 over original cost if I don't treat this like I have to be up at 3am to guarantee a copy of the game. Seriously though, I was already in panicky alert mode on day one of the original news of the new version, so I would have been acting like this anyways, so again, wow, I appreciate all the effort that was put into this and look forward to more of these in the future.
[Try4ce] The good news is that Limited Run is making this a really big run! I'm pretty sure it's their biggest to date. You'll still want to be there on time, refreshing the page, but to be honest as long as I remembered to be at my computer on time, I've never had trouble getting any Limited Run I wanted.
My Life in Gaming Limited Run Games is doing a 5,000 copy release. They've had a number of other titles with the same print run as they are giving Night Trap. I'm honestly disappointed they are not printing more as the interest in this release is very high compared to their past releases and a lot of gamers are going to lose out to scalpers. Especially as on this release, they are still allowing the purchase of two copies for the first batch when they should be allowing only one to give more people an opportunity to purchase it.
I'm screwed as I'll be attempting via my iPhone as I'm at work when both halves of the order batch are open for sale. Seeing as Wonder Boy sold out in two minutes and is already being put up on eBay by scalpers for 3-4 times the price, I have no chance of getting Night Trap...
you did such a good job with this, its an amazing video! the high-res original footage is unbelievable!
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.
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 very professional, interesting and to the point. Well done! More, please!
Incredible work you guys. The clip at 47:45 was gold.
What a superb documentary. Easily good enough for mainstream tv.
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
Wow, this may be the best produced doc I’ve seen made exclusively for UA-cam! I’m stunned. I’ve always liked Night Trap (although I always liked Double Switch more) and this gave me even more appreciation for the game. Well done!
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.
Amazing video! I also didn't know about the new version of Night Trap. Definitely gonna check that out!
This video was amazing. Holy crap the ending video where he jokes about getting interviewed about it 20 years later hahaha. Thanks for this.
Amazing documentary guys! loved it! So professional, I will be making a donation after enjoying this great vid
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!
A doc up there with Gaming Historian quality.
I've been waiting a long time for this. A fantastic watch. you guys did a wonderful job!
Outstanding work on the doc. Really enjoyed it!
This is incredible, I hope some major gaming outlets give this some exposure - it really deserves it.
This was VERY well done. id expect a documentary like this at a film fest. thoroughly enjoyed it
Fantastic video. Ordered the Blu-Ray today with My CE of the re-release !
Congratulations on the documentary, and huge thank-yous to everyone that helped make it happen, both in front of and behind the camera. Our sphere's collective history is just a little better understood with every artifact like this.
Why doesn't this have more views?
Easily better than anything that has been broadcast on television about video games. Amazing work.
flat out one of the best videos I saw in 2017. Thank you very much!
awesome documentary guys,and thanks for the spanish subtitle, greetings from Southamerica
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.
That was awesome work guys! Well worth the wait (and then some) from when you teased it originally. Must have been a killer to keep it under wraps.
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.
Great stuff. Thanks for this. I have exceptionally fond memories of playing and/or mapping out this game with my college roommates. I'm definitely looking forward to the upcoming re-release!
Great job! This was very interesting and well produced. Looking forward to see Night Trap 2, never knew about it before.
Beautiful production, MLIG. Congrats.
Didn’t know about y’all before Jeremy jahns! Glad I have another channel to obsess over 😁
It was my first game for the Sega CD back in '93, I played it all of the time...so great and innovative.
awesome video, very well made. This was a game as a kid i could never play because i never had a Sega CD but i wanted it so badly. Of course i got to check it out years later and love the campyness and silliness of it. That type of stuff is right up my alley.
Blown away. I can not believe there will be a remastered version of this game for the PS4. Fingers crossed I can get a copy when it's released. Great job guys, this was so interesting and fun to watch. That Aug walk at the end had me in stitches 👍👍👍👍
Supreme Warrior & Dracula Unleashed were my favorite fmv games!