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Anyone old enough to remember the original run for Night Trap? If so, you probably remember the underhanded way that Howard Lincoln, acting executive vice president of Nintendo of America, back stabbed Sega at the senate hearings in December 1993. During those hearings, Mr. Lincoln clearly stated, paraphrasing here, that Night Trap would never appear […]
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Notorious Sega CD Game Night Trap to be Released on PS4
April 26th, 2017 
Brandon Weicks To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Sega CD cult classic Night Trap, Limited Run Games will be releasing a remastered version sometime this spring.
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Night Trap Brings Congressional Hearings into Video Games — Today in Retro Gaming — October 15th, 1992
October 14th, 2016 Carl Williams When Sega launched the Sega CD add-on they needed some games that really “wowed” the audience and could not be done on cartridge. One company they went to that already had experience in this realm was Digital Pictures. DP was one of those “really ahead of their time” type companies that was working with Full Motion […]
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Kickstarter: Night Trap Revamped, it is Full Motion Video and it is Pretty Cool, Seeks Funding
August 13th, 2014 Carl Williams Anyone that has been in gaming from the early days, or at least the late 80’s, will probably remember a time when gaming tried to go Hollywood. What this meant was, actors/actresses and real world stuff was used in more and more games. Not like Mortal Kombat but actual video footage was used to make […]
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Night Trap To Make FMV Miracle Return
May 21st, 2014 Carl Williams Anyone that was gaming in the early to mid 1990’s will probably remember the Full Motion Video (FMV) craze that hit gaming. It is funny though, this craze was much older than that, in fact by the time Night Trap saw release, it would almost have been able to be classified as “retro” according to […]
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Revenge of the License: A Nightmare On Elm Street
December 7th, 2014 Michael Crisman I don’t know about the rest of you, but the original Nightmare on Elm Street terrified me the first time I saw it, and with good reason. With most horror films, it’s pretty obvious what you have to do in real life to avoid premature retirement. Staying out of Haddonfield, Illinois insures against meeting Michael […]
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In Development: Tiny Knight by Collectorvision
November 26th, 2014 Carl Williams Tiny Knight is a work in progress from Collectorvision, so early that we have only gotten one screen for it. Collectorvision are known for their support of defunct platforms with new games that push the hardware. Tiny Knight is hard to peg as to what platform it will be released on but it appears to […]
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New Game: Five Nights At Freddy’s Shows Full Motion Video is Not Dead
August 25th, 2014 Carl Williams First, you may be wondering why we are covering Five Nights at Freddy’s here on Retro Gaming Magazine. It is simple, Full Motion Video (FMV) games go way back in gaming, to the 80’s actually. Titles like Night Trap (reboot currently looking for funding on Kickstarter) and Sewer Shark were the norm back in the […]
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Ground Zero: Texas Introduces Full Motion Video Aliens Shooting Action to Sega CD – November 27th, 1993 – Today in Video Game History
November 26th, 2020 Carl Williams Ground Zero: Texas by Sony Imagesoft and Digital Pictures hit the Sega CD in November 1993. This was another Full Motion Video (FMV) game for the fledgling CD based Sega Genesis add-on. It is interesting to know who was involved with this game though. This was also the first time a video game had to […]
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Novastorm Brings Futuristic Rail Shooting to PlayStation – October 10th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
October 10th, 2020 Carl Williams Novastorm is a rail shooter. You are either a fan of them or hate them. This futuristic shooter was developed by Psygnosis and released on various platforms such as Sony PlayStation, FM Towns Marty, and 3DO. While technology allows this level of graphics in real time, back in the mid 1990’s this was, at least […]
