04-24-2018, 01:26 PM
The infamous FMV game Night Trap is headed to the Nintendo Switch after all
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/the-infamous-fmv-game-night-trap-is-headed-to-the-nintendo-switch-after-all.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Screaming Villains has announced that its anniversary edition of the 1992 FMV game <em>Night Trap</em> will be headed to the Nintendo Switch later this year, just one year after it <a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/296822/25_years_later_FMV_horrorshow_Night_Trap_is_coming_back.php">released the remastered game</a> for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.</p>
<p>The revival of the infamous game itself calls back to early discussions about violent and sexual content in video games since <em>Night Trap</em> was one of the specific games called out in a 1993 Congressional hearing on the subject, alongside titles like <em>Mortal Kombat.</em> </p>
<p>But devs well versed in the turbulent history of <em>Night Trap</em> will note the ‘never say never’ tagline attached to the announcement trailer as a dig at former Nintendo senior vice president Howard Lincoln’s oath from those very hearings that the once controversial game would never appear on a Nintendo platform.</p>
<p>At the time, Howard criticized the game and its developers in front of a government committee for doing little to prevent children from consuming the controversial violent and sexual content found within the FMV game, saying that <em>Night Trap</em> wouldn’t appear on a Nintendo system since it would not pass Nintendo’s own guidelines. </p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Never say never!</p>
<p>Night Trap: 25th Anniversary Edition is coming to the Nintendo Switch this Summer both digitally and physically!<a href="https://t.co/j1ZxEqvV8L">https://t.co/j1ZxEqvV8L</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZbsXKWvkn1">pic.twitter.com/ZbsXKWvkn1</a></p>
<p>— Limited Run Games (@LimitedRunGames) <a href="https://twitter.com/LimitedRunGames/status/987347615086972929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
<p><em>Night Trap</em> first released on the Sega CD in 1992 after plans to release the game on Hasbro’s scrapped VHS-powered “Project NEMO” console fell through. The game would go on to appear on other platforms despite the congressional hearing controversy and was the subject of a failed Kickstarter campaign from co-creator Tom Zito for a high-definition remake in 2014.</p>
<p>The big return to the spotlight for <em>Night Trap</em> came in 2016 when Screaming Villains posted a video of a <em>Night Trap</em> Android prototype that attracted the attention of the game’s co-creators Rob Fulop and Tom Zito, eventually resulting in a partnership with Limited Run Games to release PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC versions of <em>Night Trap: 25th Anniversary Edition</em>. Now, with Limited Run Games at its back once again, the game is headed to Switch both physically and digitally this summer. </p>
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<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/the-infamous-fmv-game-night-trap-is-headed-to-the-nintendo-switch-after-all.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Screaming Villains has announced that its anniversary edition of the 1992 FMV game <em>Night Trap</em> will be headed to the Nintendo Switch later this year, just one year after it <a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/296822/25_years_later_FMV_horrorshow_Night_Trap_is_coming_back.php">released the remastered game</a> for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.</p>
<p>The revival of the infamous game itself calls back to early discussions about violent and sexual content in video games since <em>Night Trap</em> was one of the specific games called out in a 1993 Congressional hearing on the subject, alongside titles like <em>Mortal Kombat.</em> </p>
<p>But devs well versed in the turbulent history of <em>Night Trap</em> will note the ‘never say never’ tagline attached to the announcement trailer as a dig at former Nintendo senior vice president Howard Lincoln’s oath from those very hearings that the once controversial game would never appear on a Nintendo platform.</p>
<p>At the time, Howard criticized the game and its developers in front of a government committee for doing little to prevent children from consuming the controversial violent and sexual content found within the FMV game, saying that <em>Night Trap</em> wouldn’t appear on a Nintendo system since it would not pass Nintendo’s own guidelines. </p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" readability="4.38461538462">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Never say never!</p>
<p>Night Trap: 25th Anniversary Edition is coming to the Nintendo Switch this Summer both digitally and physically!<a href="https://t.co/j1ZxEqvV8L">https://t.co/j1ZxEqvV8L</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZbsXKWvkn1">pic.twitter.com/ZbsXKWvkn1</a></p>
<p>— Limited Run Games (@LimitedRunGames) <a href="https://twitter.com/LimitedRunGames/status/987347615086972929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
<p><em>Night Trap</em> first released on the Sega CD in 1992 after plans to release the game on Hasbro’s scrapped VHS-powered “Project NEMO” console fell through. The game would go on to appear on other platforms despite the congressional hearing controversy and was the subject of a failed Kickstarter campaign from co-creator Tom Zito for a high-definition remake in 2014.</p>
<p>The big return to the spotlight for <em>Night Trap</em> came in 2016 when Screaming Villains posted a video of a <em>Night Trap</em> Android prototype that attracted the attention of the game’s co-creators Rob Fulop and Tom Zito, eventually resulting in a partnership with Limited Run Games to release PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC versions of <em>Night Trap: 25th Anniversary Edition</em>. Now, with Limited Run Games at its back once again, the game is headed to Switch both physically and digitally this summer. </p>
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