Night Trap - Sega CD/3DO-Spiel

[Man Behind The Sun]

Mitte der 90er ist ein Spiel für den Mega-CD von Sega und den 3DO namens "Night Trap" erschienen: http://www.onlinegamesdatenbank.de/index.php?section=game&gameid=1374

Um das Spiel (ein interaktiver Film in der Form von "Phantasmagoria") soll es damals in den USA aufgrund von Gewaltdarstellungen ganz schön Tumult gegeben haben. Wenn ich mir aber die Videos auf youtube ansehe, sehe ich nichts anstößiges oder gewalttätiges.
Im Netz findet man leider kaum Infos was die Story oder eben diese Thematik anbelangt.

Konnte vielleicht mal jemand das Spiel anspielen? Kann sich jemand vorstellen, warum das Spiel so in Verruf geraten ist? An den Gewaltdarstellungen, die, wenn sie denn mal auftauchen, weder brutal noch anstößig sind, kann es nicht wirklich gelegen haben.

[Aero]

Aus Wikipedia:

Controversy

Night Trap is now infamous because of its part in the 1990s Congressional hearings on offensive video game material. Night Trap and Mortal Kombat are cited as primary factors in leading to the development of the ESRB game industry ratings system.

On December 16, 1993, the Sega CD version of Night Trap was removed from store shelves at Toys "R" Us and F.A.O. Schwarz locations in the United States in direct response to a December 9, 1993 joint Senate Judiciary and Government Affairs Committee hearing on video game violence.[3] The hearings induced a quaint instance of moral panic in the media and were notoriously co-chaired by Democratic Senators Joseph Lieberman (Connecticut) and Herbert Kohl (Wisconsin), during which Night Trap was cited as "shameful", "ultra-violent", "sick", and "disgusting", encouraging an "effort to trap and kill women". Contrary to such claims, players are not trapping or killing women at all; rather, they are saving them from harm.

The infamous nightgown scene.

The Congressional hearings were covered in major newspapers including USA Today, The Washington Post and The New York Times.[4] In particular, a game over scene in which the character Lisa is wearing a nightgown while captured by Augers attempting to drain her blood was found to be very offensive. In defense of the game, Tom Zito (President and CEO of Digital Pictures) attempted to explain the context of the nightgown scene during a hearing session, but was met with little regard. In the short documentary Dangerous Games (included with the PC version), the producers and some members of the cast explain that the plot of the game was to in fact prevent the trapping and killing of women. In addition, the blood draining device was intended to look very unrealistic and would therefore mitigate the violence.[5] Despite scenes in which the girls are grabbed or pulled by enemies, no nudity or extreme acts of violence were ever filmed or incorporated into the game. [6]

Additionally, Night Trap's box art was criticized by interest groups for what many believed to be a sexist depiction (see above). In 1994, after the controversy died down, the game was ported to 3DO and Sega 32X, and for PC and Mac in 1995. All of these versions were released with a new cover depicting a tame screenshot of Dana Plato from the game, with decorative artwork in the background. [7] [8]

In 2007, Yahoo! Games listed it as one of the top ten controversial games of all time.[9]

Der Angry Video Game Nerd hat das Spiel in seinem Sega-CD Review gespielt, und ein bisschen dazu erzählt.
Kannst es dir hier ansehen.
Das Spiel ist übrigens grottenschlecht!