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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.

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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.

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

But he said what they ended up with, he said, to me, was something far creepier than a vampire biting someone's neck. Sure. But they were like, it's not reproducible, though, so it's fine.

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

But he said what they ended up with, he said, to me, was something far creepier than a vampire biting someone's neck. Sure. But they were like, it's not reproducible, though, so it's fine.

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

But he said what they ended up with, he said, to me, was something far creepier than a vampire biting someone's neck. Sure. But they were like, it's not reproducible, though, so it's fine.

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

Right.

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

Right.

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

Right.

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

Because it looked like something that they understood.

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

Because it looked like something that they understood.

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

Because it looked like something that they understood.

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

Well, I think in the documentary they make the point that Hasbro was โ€“ I think the adults were looming out there as a possibility, but they were like, adults will never play video games. So what they really wanted until they grow up and continue to play video games, what they really were after was a teenage market, which didn't fully exist at this point.

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

Well, I think in the documentary they make the point that Hasbro was โ€“ I think the adults were looming out there as a possibility, but they were like, adults will never play video games. So what they really wanted until they grow up and continue to play video games, what they really were after was a teenage market, which didn't fully exist at this point.

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

Well, I think in the documentary they make the point that Hasbro was โ€“ I think the adults were looming out there as a possibility, but they were like, adults will never play video games. So what they really wanted until they grow up and continue to play video games, what they really were after was a teenage market, which didn't fully exist at this point.

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

Like an old, like 16 and 17-year-old boys, which is why they put sorority girls in like a nightie at a slumber party. was in all in an effort to sort of titillate people like me.

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

Like an old, like 16 and 17-year-old boys, which is why they put sorority girls in like a nightie at a slumber party. was in all in an effort to sort of titillate people like me.

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

Like an old, like 16 and 17-year-old boys, which is why they put sorority girls in like a nightie at a slumber party. was in all in an effort to sort of titillate people like me.

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

So they actually had to shoot this like a movie. They shot it in Culver City on a soundstage. And what they would do back then for โ€“ and there were more full motion games of the time. And you would try and cast one โ€“ recognizable face among this cast to sort of, they called it the anchor, to like, all right, well, this has got so-and-so in it. And who did they cast for Night Trap?

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

So they actually had to shoot this like a movie. They shot it in Culver City on a soundstage. And what they would do back then for โ€“ and there were more full motion games of the time. And you would try and cast one โ€“ recognizable face among this cast to sort of, they called it the anchor, to like, all right, well, this has got so-and-so in it. And who did they cast for Night Trap?

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

So they actually had to shoot this like a movie. They shot it in Culver City on a soundstage. And what they would do back then for โ€“ and there were more full motion games of the time. And you would try and cast one โ€“ recognizable face among this cast to sort of, they called it the anchor, to like, all right, well, this has got so-and-so in it. And who did they cast for Night Trap?