One of the most controversial games of the ’90s is getting a 25th anniversary rerelease
Way back in the early ’90s, a game called Night Trap joined Mortal Kombat and other releases at the center of the controversy that led to the creation of the ESRB, the industry’s age-rating organization. Naturally, the media fervor brought way more attention to this bizarre Sega title about a slumber party terrorized by hunchbacked vampires in ill-fitting black jumpsuits than it would have gotten otherwise. And so, as terrible of a game as it is, it became something of a cult classic and an accidental landmark of ’90s gaming.
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