User Reviews

This was definitely one of my all-time favorite video games - well produced, innovative and a piece of history that should definitely be archived! I had the original, and I found nothing objectionable about it. That was back when special interests were competing to become founders on the regulation bandwagon - funny how as soon as an ESRB was established, games were allowed to be excessively grotesque for the sake of being the bloodiest thing out there (so long as it had the 'M' rating on it) and the film industry silently followed in their footsteps shortly thereafter - no longer must art work to build suspense and fear, now it's a matter of who can simulate the goriest in-your-face image. Spooky, huh? What was the big controversy really all about? It wasn't violence nor nudity...it was the suggestion of violence. The "augers" (henchmen of the family that needed blood to survive) had these devices that they would hook around their victim's neck (somewhat like the canes that would pull old vaudeville actors off stage) and a pointy little bit would spin as it began to (suggestively) drill in. That is what the big controversy was about...well that and the fact that the victims were your typical scantily clad young ladies (in nightgowns and other slumber party type attire). There was no meat, limbs, blood, torture or other imagery that we would typically see bypass sensors for today's network television.

What was the game like? The best! You were in control of all of the traps throughout the house, which you were monitoring through video surveillance - you would switch cameras to see what's going on...you'd notice a couple of augers going towards an entryway from outside, but you'd have to switch to the living room to gather critical information before switching back to the entry where you would open the trap door to drop the augers in - pretty much that's the gist of it.

What was the best part of the game? The creepy look of the compressed video gave it an authentic surveillance feel. Also, when nothing was happening outside, the chirping of the crickets was absolutely the best - you definitely wanted to play this game at night after hours to add to the ambiance. Trying to keep up between the family, the girls and the augers always kept the action moving. I still remember Dana Plato's character saying "Megan! No!!!" as Megan struggled with an auger at each of her arms...that was one of the trickiest traps to pull - I would hit it either too early or too late, then that's probably one of the reasons I remember it so well. There was one trap the was a bed that flipped the augers out the window. I think there was one at the bottom of the stairs. There were all kinds of fun traps. You didn't really catch on to the family's creepy secret until towards the end, but that's just good composition.

What a game! To win it was to get rid of the bad guys with no harm done to the girls. Lose a girl - lose the game, plain and simple. Played to completion it was a 'G' rated game all the way. Without completing your mission it was what we'd probably consider a 'PG-13' at worst.

Very clean fun. Very classic...and one more snapshot in the tragically short life of actress Dana Plato. Every member of the "Night Trap" cast played their role with incredible results, creating an experience that although shared with only a small portion of the population, not only deserves to be looked back upon as both an historical document but as a legacy in home entertainment as well!

night trap was one of the key games in the 1994 congressional hearings on the violence of video games alongside mortal kombat. well enough with the history lesson lets review the game. this fmv game puts you in the role of a man with the job of protecting some girls including the late Dana Plato from the augers who are some vampire like creatures. they are all in the martins mansion who have a secret themselves. you have control of the houses traps and your aim is to trap the augers before they overrun the house. the games graphics are good for the sega CD if a little grainy but it doesn't matter too much. the sound is clear and sometimes funny at times. overall it is an addictive game and i rate it 10 out of ten. thats a bikerchick guaranteer.

I bought this game after the controversy that spilled over it that casted those nasty video game ratings. I purchased this for the Sega CD 32X (combine them together), unknowingly at the time when I bought this game I didn't realize at the time that this was the game that had got so much talk along with MK and caused it to be pulled from the retail shelves years earlier. Well now for my review I want to set the record straight, this game in no way contains sex, profanity, or extreme violence, despite the naysayer that love spreading those rumors and lies about this game, if you actually played this game you would realize this game is far from what it was black marked as. The other commenter here that reviewed this game mentioned it had blood. Now, I'm not sure what that reviewer meant by that, I assure you there's no animated blood in this game, there's no one getting shot, stabbed or mangled and blood comes squirting out everywhere on scream. This game is a live action movie. But there are scenes where one of the house guest in the game finds blood zipped lock in a storage bag in a refrigerator, and scenes if you screw up and fail to protect some of the house guest in the game you might find some of the guest that getting they're blood drained from them with strange syringe tools used by the enemies in the game, its all acted out as a movie as what this game is slightly is and there's a bit of some bad acting at times, but again this video game is a live action interactive movie. The one noticeable actor in this game is child hood star, Dana Plato, if you remember her as Kimberly from Different Strokes she stars in this game. She's one of the undercover cops that's on your team and is your primary focus on protecting in the game. You are the Controller; you have access to hidden surveillance cameras in the house. Each surveillance camera in the house is in each room. Each room contains traps hidden on the wall and in the floor and you have control of them. Your purpose is to use the traps wisely and trap the augers. Basically, you're a security guard in game, I know pretty lame. The house is owned by the Victors and their two kids Sarah and Jeff, the family are actually vampires, and the daughter invites her unsuspecting normal friends over. You'll get the rest of the story when you play the game. Honestly this game IMO is a mere family game than the overrated controversy that people in the early 90s dogged this game to be. I wonder sometimes if part of the controversy stemmed from people being use to seeing a video game like Super Mario Bros. and not expect a game to be so real like this one was. But whatever the case it is, the hysteria that surrounds this game is nothing but political hype. This game was rated M when I got in 1995, and come to think of it I was still a kid then, LOL. Oh the irony. This is a good game to own, especially if you are a fan of Digital Pictures (company that made this game) and their live action video games they made. BTW, this game had a clone rip off of it too, called Double Switch and this game starred child famed actor Corey Haim. I have that game as well and the storyline thankfully isn't vampires like Night Trap, but more of a unique matrix style of baddies.