Game Apologist - Night Trap

Happy Halloween!
Let's get weird.
Today we look at one of the most notorious games of all time.

[@StRoRo]

I think Night Trap suffered from the Barbra Streisand effect. It was a shame about Dana Plato, while politicians argued about over a tiny bit of very low resolution footage, real people's lives were falling apart. Love the ending though. Excellent Video. Your best yet I think.

[@Razorgeist]

A fun and informative video. That being said 17:33 damn thoughtful and decent of you to mention Dana Plato's personal issues and tragic passing. We can joke all we like but sometimes you gotta remember there are people involved in this business and they dont always have the best experience and life.

[@SickWhiteTiger]

Also the woman in the court case who lead her argument with (and I quote) "I've been a woman since the day I was born"

[@JogVodka]

And then everyone clapped and banned Mortal Kombat and Night Trap

[@BlueV101]

As funny as that is, in 2020, that's not so farfetched of a statement. LOL.

[@SickWhiteTiger]

@@BlueV101 haa! So true

[@SickWhiteTiger]

@@BlueV101 also blue V is my favorite V . Light blue just don't cut it. Not sweet enough :P

[@BlueV101]

@@SickWhiteTiger 🤣🤣🤣

[@mistersp3753]

This game was made before the standard ESRB rating system, and for some reason ALL games were just assumed to be made for children by the general public. Kids today have NO idea what this was like. While the 80s were like the Wild West for video games, the 90s were left with the job of building up the infrastructure for the entire industry as it became more clear what these things were capable of. It was an exciting time to be a gamer.

[@AshaTheGameGenie]

That thumbnail is perfect

[@johnrairdin1890]

I came here to comment on the thumbnail. I see you've already taken care of it. Thank you.

[@sonic2blue]

Agreed lol

[@BlueV101]

Hey. I stumbled upon your channel a couple of days ago. And as a fellow Sonic fan... A fellow gamer since way back in the (early) 80s, I really love your content. All that aside, let me go on record saying, that in "post-credits scene" was absolutely hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣

[@hiddencateye6878]

I thought ur PFP was CJ form GTA: San Andreas

[@BlueV101]

@@hiddencateye6878 lol.

[@brandonprater4613]

("horrific" scene shown) *Me:* Umm, that's it?! *Apologist:* ... yeah, that's it. *Me:* 😳😂😆

[@maddoxlacy9072]

Do not take for some conjurer of- *I'M THE SCAT MAN*

[@omaralhassan2300]

I think nightrap is a huge stepingstone for gaming history. It wadent a good game no, but i still think this game neded to hapen. I dont understand why they set focus on imaginary violence and how it efects kids, espesialy with night trap. You are literely trying to stop the violence, thats the point of the game. But i would imagen bieng scared to play nightrap when i was little. Whenever i here videogames couses violence, i honestly think its the stupidest thing ever. When people are violent, videogame isent to blame. You dont see an 15 year old kid who grew up with mortalkombat seling his soul to the devil so he can get chains in his wrist. You dont see the animator of the gore in mortalkombat riping people in half. The makers of the violence should be the most craziest people on earth. The only thing i can say about videogame violence is kids arent stupid. You are not gonna see some kid piking up a pump shotgun and shout averyone out from his tree house until hes the only one left. I grew up with violent games but im not crazy, i dont enjoy violens or chrime. In fact i despise it. I personaly could not think of hurting a fly, i would honestly feel bad for it if i acsedentaly steped on it. Anyway Nice video. Sry im a bit late to the party i was bussy with school and i havent got enuf sleep either. Your video is great i love how you get to talk about violence in videogames and the game itself. I espacialy love the menchion of what hapend to that girl becous i honestly dident know. Its great to get some insight to what sort of stuff was going on at the time of the games relese. Great video 8-9 out of 10

[@pattyofurniture694]

Anyone else feel like night trap might have partially inspired Five nights at freddy's?

[@pattyofurniture694]

Whoops, I did the bad youtuber thing where I commented this earlier in the video and then you mentioned it later in the video.

[@Azel98]

Am I the only One who likes this Game. It's a Guilty Pleasure of mine.

[@GameApologist]

It would not have been brought back without some passionate fans, I'm sure you're not alone!

[@ZX_STH]

I'M THE SCAT MAN!

[@theopenworldofgaming5005]

When scottthewoz and you make a video on the same topic on the same week

[@GameApologist]

Yep, saw that. Just that time of year, but I was too deep in editing to turn back.

[@theopenworldofgaming5005]

@@GameApologist this is nice though. I like seeing the "apologist" way of seeing things after seeing the "critique comes first" review. Gives a good sort of balance

[@jpward01]

5:09 Because screw Brad, am I right?

[@ThatMellon]

I'd love to hear that guys opinion on GTA5; not. Interesting insight, I remember renting this as a kid and thinking it was ridiculous, my opinion hasn't changed at all over the years. It still remains iconic to me based on the terrible choreography of the black suited dudes; crab walking their way through the trap filled house, on second thought; this might just be my favourite game ever created!

[@JohnnyThousand605]

It's weird, I have a similar best/worst sentiment towards the game too =) Have you seen the Ars Technica video on it?

[@rct3isepic]

I now want to mod this game so that commander Simms only speaks in scatman

[@mistersp3753]

19:06 That ending was great! Love the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme! It just goes to show how much video games have changed.

[@ihatepie2630]

Awesome video Nick! Made my night shift at work better. I remember one of our neighbors had a Sega CD and we all thought this was the cutting edge of technology. Who could forget about FULL MOTION VIDEO when it came to the Sega CD. I also remember Night Trap and Mortal Kombat being the catalyst games that started the ESRB rating systems. Funny to think now that such a silly game cemented the rating system that would rank all other games to come for their content within. Man the 90's were some good times...

[@SickWhiteTiger]

was the toy gun to express his disgust by pretending to shoot sega reps in the head?

[@StressedYeti]

That art at 7:54!

[@blueman7024]

6:47 roll credits

[@MagillanicaLouM]

Oh wow, the lead actress went through so much irl. Its a shame to hear, i was crushing on her character the whole video, she looked to enjoy it so much. Cool of you to give respects to her

[@GameApologist]

Yeah it was kinda crazy that nobody was really mentioning her story when this game gets covered. Very heartbreaking stuff.

[@GFCOLCQuote]

It was all fun and games until the story about the actress came up. Just goes to show, no matter the fictional universe, nothing is more terrifying than reality.

[@mistersp3753]

4:17 So... sewers smell like napalm. Got it. Thanks for reminding all of us how much better Apocalypse Now is.

[@SanFran51]

So remember folks. Male video game characters getting killed is good. Female Video Game Characters getting killed is BAD.

[@bradleydebevoise-ward5591]

This episode needs more views and upvotes.

[@JohnnyThousand605]

So I know this is an old video and one person's opinion on the internet is worth less than .02, more like .000000002, BUT the reason *I* liked Night Trap wasn't the novelty of seeing real video in a game or the 'mature' nature of the content (I can barely type that with a straight face). What I loved about it was the persistence; the fact that the game was always doing something, regardless of what the player was doing. While you're watching the living room, something's happening in the kitchen. Sometimes things would be happening simultaneously in different rooms. This went a long way to immersing us in this otherwise lame (even by 80s standards) horror flick. That Game Over when you sit around in the van too long? That just added to the immersion. It was more like an Easter egg, like all the traps and Game Overs, except this one, while maybe seeming a bit unfair, didn't cost the player any progress and hammered home that you could never zone out, that this was a living world with things happening in it and the player had to get in to that world. That being said, you're 100% right on the story vs finishing the game. There are more than a few clips you flat out can not see without missing some Augers. Two things helped people suspend their disbelief with the game at the time. One was indeed the novelty of live actors and a playable 'film' but the other was quite simply the lower resolution and colour depth of the video on the Mega CD. Watching the remaster is nothing short of painful; all the wobbly sets and joins in the walls where the traps are, are virtually invisible on the original. Anyway, that's just my perspective, great video as always. Discovered your channel a couple of weeks ago and really lovin' the content. Toot Toot! =)

[@lennon4710]

I feel like I'm one of the few who loves this game unironically.

[@baxterbunny4403]

same

[@slapstickcomedy2.0.18]

Well hey they said they wanted realistic games and fmv was the true answer to that solution.

[@Horace-83]

On the new box art cover, Kelly just looks like she's going: "Can you believe this?" and I see you copied that in your thumbnail. (But seriously tho, this video is underrated as fuuuuck.)

[@matthewboyd8689]

I don't think they understand the idea of realism. Also do they not know what comedy is? I mean it might have been different at that time but this is hilariously unrealistic. Who buys that kind of device in the first place? Does it even exist? I'd buy one just to have some story to talk about.

[@SanFran51]

That was the whole point. According to the documentary. They deliberately created the clamp as "The most fantasical most ridiculous device that nobody would ever replicate"

[@Bofrab]

Welp, you’ve heard it here folks. Nintendo doesn’t care about women.

[@EyeLoch]

This is a really great video

[@gabymogax4283]

This video has been blessed from the scat man

[@Razorgeist]

New Game apologist video...this must be for helping that nice man with his cross.

[@ZonicMirage]

An indie game shop in my area has a claim to fame involving Night Trap! A few years back, someone traded in just over 200 copies of the Sega CD version.

[@GameApologist]

What?!?!

[@ZonicMirage]

@@GameApologist Don't remember exactly, but I believe most were from rental stores, maybe retail. Either way, they were no doubt removed due to the controversy. Some were complete, some had their boxes, and some just the discs with jewel cases. Me and a friend managed to get copies with their boxes. It was wild.

[@BlueV101]

That's insane.

[@ZonicMirage]

@@BlueV101 Right? The shop still hasn't sold all the disc-only copies.

[@BlueV101]

Well, I guess, after a year, they wouldn't have sold out of the copies, seeing as how there is a better version available... On a Nintendo console. 🤣🤣🤣

[@nickwilliams5118]

That ending lol

[@Xander_P.G.K]

This perfectly showcases that people who think violent video games cause real life violence are stupid and have never actually played a video game. And It's brain numbing that people still make this dumb assumption. 😤

[@TheReZisTLust]

This is the Sonic equivalent of fmvs cause you gotta perfect and keep coming back lmao

[@terminaldisfunction5306]

This is such an underrated video, Nick please make more like this :D

[@Oddball-en2bd]

Sort of ironic too that scat is is another word for excrement...

[@sonic2blue]

1st comment Hell yeah!!!

[@domocat6473]

I came for sonic but I am glad I stayed

[@emjayrogers1987]

I’ve always been baffled how Nintendo allowed Night Trap onto the Switch

[@baxterbunny4403]

So its Fnaf in 93

[@MagillanicaLouM]

Senator looked so in pain while describing the game lol

[@TheFellerHasAChannelGodDamnIt]

Honestly, I loved this game. Yeah, it was REALLY frustrating, but finally timing everything and making the pieces fall into the correct place was fucking amazing. I haven't gotten a 100% on the Augers, but I am definitely gonna try to, and it will be the most frustrating shit ever.