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Senators Called Night Trap Violence Against Women

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Night Trap's neck drill was made to calm a toy company, yet senators saw it as violence against women.

Shot for Hasbro's family console, it reached the Senate as the scene a player gets for losing.

Subject
Night Trap, 1992
Chapters
7
Sources
8
Credits
16
Corrections
0

Sources

8
  • Article5
  • Book1
  • Archive1
  • Interview1

The sources the story leans on most, primary sources first. Read dates are when the page was consulted; the live page may have changed since.

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Image & music credits

16
  • License unknown12
  • CC BY-SA 2.02
  • CC BY-SA 4.01
  • CC BY 3.01

15 photos, 1 music track, from the hosts linked below. Each file name links to the file's page, which carries the full license terms.

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1 Photo https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration01Jan1995/page/n56 archive.org License unknown
2 Photo tom-zito-mlig-0318.png My Life in Gaming, 'Night Trap: 25 Years Later' (2017), frame at 5:18 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df2zptiviBo) License unknown
3 Photo nolan-bushnell-mlig-0279.png My Life in Gaming, 'Night Trap: 25 Years Later' (2017), frame at 4:39 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df2zptiviBo) License unknown
4 Photo axlon-logo-mlig-2017-0273.png My Life in Gaming, 'Night Trap: 25 Years Later' (2017), frame at 4:33 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df2zptiviBo) License unknown
5 Photo rob-fulop-mlig-0309.png My Life in Gaming, 'Night Trap: 25 Years Later' (2017), frame at 5:09 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df2zptiviBo) License unknown
6 Photo stephen-hassenfeld-mlig-0250.png My Life in Gaming, 'Night Trap: 25 Years Later' (2017), frame at 4:10 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df2zptiviBo) License unknown
7 Photo MMN4027 top lid opened.jpg Mister rf CC BY-SA 4.0
8 Photo https://archive.org/details/Electronic-Games-1992-12/page/n98 archive.org License unknown
9 Photo https://archive.org/details/Sega Mega CD 32X Night Trap 1994 U/page/n5 archive.org License unknown
10 Photo Broadcast Studio (53998133784).jpg Ethan Long CC BY-SA 2.0
11 Photo https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Sacramento,-California---State-Capitol.jpg upload.wikimedia.org License unknown
12 Photo https://archive.org/details/GamePro Issue 055 February 1994/page/n187 archive.org License unknown
13 Photo Washington - Capitol from Washington Monument (1988) (4390786227).jpg Roger W from Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A. CC BY-SA 2.0
14 Photo https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Sega-Mega-CD-with-Mega-Drive on top.jpg?utm source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm campaign=imageinfo&utm content=original upload.wikimedia.org License unknown
15 Photo night-trap-sega-cd-manual-cover.png the 1992 Sega CD manual's cover, cropped from an eBay listing photograph (https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/3-IAAeSwrA1ptv-V/s-l1200.webp, 'Sega CD Night Trap Red Box Release (1992) CiB with Manual') License unknown
16 Music Comfortable Mystery (ISRC USUAN1100287).mp3 "Comfortable Mystery" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) CC BY 3.0

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