By Eric Curtis on September 10, 2014 at 7:16am
Earlier this week, a man sold a bunch of older Sega items to a store in Albuquerque, N.M. Among these items were 203 copies of "Night Trap." For those who don't know, "Night Trap" was a Sega CD game released in 1992 that stirred up all kinds of controversy and was even said to be one of the factors in creating the ESRB ratings board.
In the game, you were responsible for watching over a house of young women and were told to protect them from bad guys in the house. If you didn't, the guys would grab the women and drag them off and you would lose. Sega CD used full motion videos which made this games controversy sky rocket in no time. Two weeks before Christmas 1993, "Night Trap" was pulled from the shelves. By 1994, the controversy had died down, and the game was ported to different consoles edited.
The seller told the store he worked for a Blockbuster distribution center back when the recall took place and he was able to grab most of the copies that came through. All the copies he traded in were uncensored versions released on Sega CD, some even with manual. A group tried to Kickstart a revamped version of the game, but with hours to go, it's looking like they will fall short of their goal.
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