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Why ruin a classic with a remake? This game should be enjoyed as it was.

Oh wow… talk about a kickstarter that is fully void of realities of modern game audiences and how KS pledges usually work. I mean, yeah, I’d love to see old FMV games remastered to higher resolution, but to make a KS project that has only phsyical tiers? And the sum they want is a bit high as well, with postage and all.

I would have been interested, if there had been a modest tier with download only, but for this, I’m out.

Yeah, I don’t think irony is going to help this game reach its goal.

I would actually weep if this Kickstarter was successful while the Ecco the Dolphin or the Jim Walls Kickstarters failed.

I’m also surprised there is very little mention of Dana Plato. That’s the elephant in the room here - it’s a sad reminder of a child actor’s career on the skids. NIGHT TRAP!

If any of you are planning to back this, take heed on this article:
http://kotaku.com/night-trap-creators-defend-sloppy-kickstarter-sorta-1620307753

From this it’s pretty evident that they have very little idea of what they are really doing. I think this rises some more red flags for the project.

Yeah, I’m not interested in this game, but after reading that there’s quite a few red flags in this project. 

The excuse for not allowing a download of it is really weak too.

Amazing anecdote about Nintendo’s past treachery and how Night Trap was caught in the middle:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1018579240/night-trap-revamped/posts/954561

I’ve started seven companies in the past 29 years, so I can drone on and on about the nature of business relationships.  But I don’t want to bore you.

That said, I do want to talk about doing business with Nintendo, which obviously is a painful subject for us and — more importantly — something deeply of interest to many of you.

The story begins early in 1991 in Tokyo, where Sony and Nintendo were secretly collaborating on a new video game system that used CDs rather than cartridges as its media.  That system would ultimately morph into the PlayStation, and Nintendo would ultimately have nothing to do with it, but at the time it looked as if it were going to happen jointly.  Some Sony US execs had earlier seen two games that the four of us had created at Isix, a company funded by the toy company Hasbro, for its never-released NEMO game system: Night Trap and Sewer Shark.  Both Sony and Nintendo were convinced they needed to launch this system with a new type of software: full-motion-video interactive movies. And both were convinced we had the perfect two products for that launch. Sony was going to license Sewer Shark; Nintendo would license Night Trap. We labored closely with both companies for over nine months, until the Sony/Nintendo joint-venture fell apart.  Sony in turn introduced us to Sega and, in the fall of 1992, Sony released Sewer Shark for the Sega CD, bundled with the hardware; Sega released Night Trap.

We believed we had a terrific relationship with Nintendo — as we continued to have with Sony, and began to have with Sega.  We worked very closely with Nintendo, both in Japan and the US, and never requested so much as a dime from them. Instead, they assured us that, as soon as they had a system that could support FMV, we’d be a preferred software publisher for their new platform.  To us, this was what business was all about: give and take.

Flash forward a year.  In September of 1993, a US Senate committee began doing legwork on a real political plum: violence in video games.  Their initial focus was the game Mortal Kombat, published by Acclaim Entertainment for both Sega and Nintendo systems.  Nintendo went into overdrive, looking for something to attract attention away from its own problem.  Because we had worked with them on Night Trap, Nintendo had full-resolution video of the game, and created a short edit that made the title look shockingly sexist and violent, rather than the silly spoof it was.  Through its lobbyists in Washington, Nintendo delivered that edit to members of the committee’s staff, and Night Trap instantly became the lightening rod and poster child for video game violence.  The witch hunt was on!

Unless you have ever had the meaty fist of the US Senate slammed directly into your face, you have no idea how horrible that experience is — and not just for the four of us.  Every one of our colleagues at Digital Pictures was subjected to ridicule and disgust: parents wondered what sort of company their kids were working at; our landlord tried to throw us out of his building, because the parking lot was constantly mobbed with reporters; our bank canceled our line of credit.  I remember getting a call from Rob Fulop, when all this was starting up, asking me how we were going to stop it: his immigrant parents were seeing him portrayed on the evening news as a criminal, condemned by his childhood idol, Captain Kangaroo.

And the worst part was the betrayal: our friend and partner Nintendo, which only two years earlier had been ready to publish the game themselves, now hypocritically pointed a finger at us, to dodge a bullet they knew would hit either them or, better, us.  And we had handed them the gun they used to shoot us!

Nintendo’s attitude to other game devs is no surprise though is it?

Misleading a congressional hearing doesn’t seem very Nintendo-like to me but I suppose they have done some scummy things in the past.

Game was a hoot on the 3do system back in the day. One of the true classics of the system.