Real
Actors...Real Video
You direct the Action!
What if you could ocntrol your favorite movie ?
If you were a part of the action ?
If you made the difference between success and failure, life and death
?
Night Trap is the first CD-ROM that makes you most important character
in a real movie.
You direct the action.
You control the outcome.
Night Trap is 100% continuous live-actio video, just like a movie.
With InstaSwitch™ video, it has all the challenge of a video game,
but with real people instead of computer generated characters.
Five teenagers have disappeared from a bizarre lakeside house.
You are enlisted as a Special Control Attack Team agent trying to solve
the mystery.
You are responsible for protecting the lives of another group of teenagers
visiting the house.
You control hidden cameras in 8 different rooms.
You control a series of traps in each room.
Use the traps to capture anuone or anything that threatens the lives of
the innocent.
Listen-in to private conversations to pick up clues.
Don't even think of messing up.
Remember, people's lives are in your hands !
Back up a bit if you will to 1991, because events unfolding in the videogame
industry as part of the multimedia revolution would have a direct impact
on Sega CD in 1993.
At the time, noted toymaker Hasbro was just beginning to join the multimedia
revolution, and was open to any decent videogame projects that might further
their aims.
One such project was Scene of the Crime by Digital Pictures, utilizing
the latest in FMV technology to deliver a compelling story about a series
of mysterious disappearances inside a spooky old house.
Hasbro liked what they saw, and comissioned it for release under the in-house
title Project NEMO.
It would be the first truly interactive videogame to deliver something
approaching a real cinematic experience, and the choices that the player
made during the course of the game would determine its eventual outcome.
Adding to the aura of the project was its youthful star, the attractive
Dana Plato, who was having difficulty after her long stint as Kimberly
on the popular TV sitcom Different Strokes and was in desperate need of
a job.
Project NEMO offered her that chance, and she took the role of undercover
police agent Kelli Medd to heart.
Production wrapped in early 1992, with the game being released first for
Panasonic's fledgling 3DO system and then later ported to other systems,
including Sega CD, by the end of the year.
Little did Hasbro or Digital Pictures realize what they had unleashed
upon the videogame industry.
This game became one of the best-selling titles ever released for Sega
CD in the U.S.
Its premise - a bunch of pretty girls being chased around a creepy old
house by vampires - appealed strongly to a gaming public which was at
that time largely composed of young males.
The game in question was Night Trap - a game that was to cause more controversy
than any other commercially vended FMV title to date.
