Released in 1994
Available in 
Genre: Interactive movie
Night Trap
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Released in 1994 |
Available in |
Genre: Interactive movie |
One of the most conterversal games ever, this version of Night Trap improves over the SEGA CD version by having a bigger video window and many more colors, which allows for a clearer picture. Other than that -and this can be said about all 32X CD games -there isn't much to write about. The intro has been changed to what other versions of the game had (the SEGA CD version's intro was specifically made for that version) and the HUD interface has been changed.
Night Trap was developed by Digital Pictures, and as with all of their games,
it has limited playability. I suppose once you know how things work you can get a bit of fun out of seeing the bad guys getting wiped out by the traps, but that won't last for long. The high difficulty level of the CD version is still present, as you have to constantly switch from room to room, capturing all of the Augers as they appear, in order to get the best ending. This gives you no time to actually watch a lot of the scenes.
Contents
1) Info
2) Cheats
3) Trivia
Info
As part of the Special Control Attack Team, your job is to protect some friends who have entered a house where a group of girls recently went missing. The house has had many traps setup in it, but you have hacked into the security system and now have control over the traps. You'll get to work with undercover agent Kelli Medd (played by Dana Plato) and will have to switch between each camera of the house to see where the bad guys -known as Augers -are appearing.
When you come across some Augers, you have to have the correct access code (which starts out at blue) and then must look at the bar underneath the access code choice. As the Augers get closer to a victim, the bar will go up, and when it reaches red, press the B button. This will activate one of the traps, which will trap the Augers. The access code will keep changing throughout the game.
Use the control pad to switch between each camera. Press A to view what the selected camera can currently see. You'll have to keep switching through the cameras to find the Augers, and have to find them fast enough so you can trap them. You must trap a certain number of Augers to be able to complete the game, and if any of the main characters die, the game will end.
Instant game over
As the intro plays, don't press any buttons. Eventually Simms will get fed up of you not doing anything, and will tell you to pass the controls to someone else. The game will then end.
Best ending
For the best ending, capture all 95 Augers.
At the very end of the game Kelli will congratulate you. You then have the chance to also capture her with one of the traps, should you want to.
Most cheat sites list a code that will let you watch a documentary about Night Trap called "Dangerous Games". But from what I can tell, this code doesn't work in the 32X version -it's for the SEGA CD version only. What you are supposed to do is press Up, A, A, A, A, A when the "In Memory of Stephen D. Hassenfeld" message appears during the credits. But that message never appears in the 32X version.
Night Trap was filmed in just over two weeks in 1987. It was originally planned to be released for Hasbro's NEMO game system, which would have used VHS tapes. This system was never released and the Night Trap footage was put into an archive. The game was later released for the SEGA CD in 1992, and then the 32X CD version was released in 1994 -seven years after the footage was shot.
The SEGA CD version was one of several games to be brought up in US Senate hearings about video game violence. Some speakers said the game was about trapping women and killing them, which it isn't -you are supposed to do the opposite and the game ends if the main characters die. However by the time the 32X version was released, Night Trap was seen as being pretty tame. 32X games such as Cosmic Carnage and Mortal Kombat II were much more violent.
