"NIGHT TRAP 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION"
Night Trap tells the story of five teenage girls spending the weekend at the Martin home. As a member of the Special Control Attack Team, your job is to monitor the home and protect the girls using an intricate system of cameras and traps as it is being invaded by vampires.
(Description from the Steam product page)
Release: 2017
Developer: Screaming Villains
Publisher: Screaming Villains
Type: Quicktime
Platforms: PS4, PS Vita, Switch, Windows
• Night Trap is infamous for its part in the 1990s Congressional hearings on video game violence. These hearings eventually led to the ESRB rating system.
• The game's creators launched a Kickstarter campaign in 2014 to raise money for a re-release dubbed "Night Trap ReVamped" but the funding fell short of its goal. The re-release was brought back to life in 2016 when an independent developer named Tyler Hogle made a bootleg mobile version of the game that garnered him a licensing deal.
• Check out our Interview with the Developer.
Kelly Medd..... Dana Plato
Victor Martin..... Jon Rashad Kamal
Lt. Simms..... J. Bill Jones
Developed by..... Tyler Hogle
Directed by..... James Riley
August 2017
It's goofy as hell and wears the iconography of early 90s mainstream media like a badge of honour. Presented here with insightful extras and a modern lick of paint, if you succumb to its corny charms, this is a game as entertaining to play as it is to watch.
SCORE: 7/10 [ PushSquare.com ]
August 2017
For whatever it's worth, I like Night Trap. It is a bad game, but I like it. Screaming Villains' love-letter to one of the most notorious video games of all time has to be the most oddly-conceived re-release in gaming history. But I can't think of another game, that's so bad, that somehow deserves the recognition so much.
SCORE: 4/10 [ Destructoid.com ]
