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Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

And Jim Riley was like, okay, I guess I can do that.

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Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

Biting people's necks. And then Hasbro was like, can't do that because kids can bite necks, too.

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Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

Biting people's necks. And then Hasbro was like, can't do that because kids can bite necks, too.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

Biting people's necks. And then Hasbro was like, can't do that because kids can bite necks, too.

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Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

Yeah.

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Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

Yeah.

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Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

Yeah.

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Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

Like a clamp sort of.

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Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

Like a clamp sort of.

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Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

Like a clamp sort of.

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Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

Yeah, so what Hasbro did was they noted it to death and neutered it to death. Because they said โ€“ he even was like, all right, I can do vampires. I can run around and hurt people. And they said, no, no, no, they can't even run around. It's too scary if they're fast.

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Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

Yeah, so what Hasbro did was they noted it to death and neutered it to death. Because they said โ€“ he even was like, all right, I can do vampires. I can run around and hurt people. And they said, no, no, no, they can't even run around. It's too scary if they're fast.

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Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

Yeah, so what Hasbro did was they noted it to death and neutered it to death. Because they said โ€“ he even was like, all right, I can do vampires. I can run around and hurt people. And they said, no, no, no, they can't even run around. It's too scary if they're fast.

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Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

So they came up with augers who in the game they're described as vampires who had been half-bled and left to die. So they are not quite vampires, but they aren't human either. And that makes them lopey and lumbery instead of being able to move fast. Right. And if you see them, they look like they're wearing garbage bags. They're lumbering around.

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Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

So they came up with augers who in the game they're described as vampires who had been half-bled and left to die. So they are not quite vampires, but they aren't human either. And that makes them lopey and lumbery instead of being able to move fast. Right. And if you see them, they look like they're wearing garbage bags. They're lumbering around.

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Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

So they came up with augers who in the game they're described as vampires who had been half-bled and left to die. So they are not quite vampires, but they aren't human either. And that makes them lopey and lumbery instead of being able to move fast. Right. And if you see them, they look like they're wearing garbage bags. They're lumbering around.

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Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

They're drawing the blood using a trocar is what the name of that thing was.

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Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

They're drawing the blood using a trocar is what the name of that thing was.

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Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

They're drawing the blood using a trocar is what the name of that thing was.

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Selects: Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

Because it was definitely its own thing. It was its own thing. And it's funny. In the documentary, Jim Reilly was like โ€“ In the end, he said this trocar, which, you know, it didn't show it explicitly. It showed the clamp going around the neck and this little drill inside of a shaft start and then sort of moving and then blood being drawn. But it doesn't show like going in the neck or anything.