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Night Trap
''Night Trap'' is a 1992 interactive movie developed by Digital Pictures and published by Sega for the Sega CD. Presented primarily through full-motion video (FMV), ''Night Trap'' has the player observe teenage girls having a sleepover visiting a house which, unbeknownst to them, is infested with vampires. The player watches live surveillance footage and triggers traps to capture anyone endangering the girls. The player can switch between different cameras to keep watch over the girls and eavesdrop on conversations to follow the story and listen for clues. The ''Night Trap'' concept originated in a 1986 prototype game developed by Axlon to demonstrate their Control-Vision game console to Hasbro. The system used VHS tape technology to present film-like gaming experiences. With the system picked up by Hasbro, the production of ''Night Trap'' commenced. The video footage was recorded in 1987, followed by six months of editing and game programming. Hasbro suddenly canceled the Cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Pictures
Digital Pictures was an American video game developer founded in 1991 by Lode Coen, Mark Klein, Ken Melville, Anne Flaut-Reed, Kevin Welsh and Tom Zito. The company originated from an attempt to produce a game for the cancelled VHS-based NEMO game system. One of its first titles, '' Night Trap'', was originally produced as a title for the NEMO, before being converted for use with Sega's new Sega CD. The mature-themed content of ''Night Trap'' made it the source of some controversy. Nevertheless, the title was a bestseller. Digital Pictures went on to create other full motion video-based titles primarily for Sega hardware, and are regarded as a pioneer of the interactive movie genre. The company declined in the mid-1990s due to waning interest in full motion video games. Its final title, '' Maximum Surge'', went unreleased and was later repurposed into a film called ''Game Over''. Full motion video games The founders of Digital Pictures met in the late 1980s while working at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Single-player Video Game
A single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the gameplay. Video games in general can feature several game modes, including single-player modes designed to be played by a single player in addition to multi-player modes. Most modern console games, PC games and arcade games are designed so that they can be played by a single player; although many of these games have modes that allow two or more players to play (not necessarily simultaneously), very few actually require more than one player for the game to be played. The '' Unreal Tournament'' series is one example of such. History The earliest video games, such as '' Tennis for Two'' (1958), '' Spacewar!'' (1962), and '' Pong'' (1972), were symmetrical games designed to be played by two players. Single-player games gained popularity only after this, with early titles such as '' Speed Race'' (1974) and ''Space Invaders'' (1978). The reason for this, according to Raph Koste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KB Toys
K·B Toys (also known as Kay Bee Toys) was an American chain of mall-based retail toy stores. The company was founded in 1922 as Kaufman Brothers, a wholesale candy store. The company opened a wholesale toy store in 1946, and ended its candy wholesales two years later to emphasize its toy products. Retail sales began during the 1970s, using the name Kay-Bee Toy & Hobby. In 1999, the company operated 1,324 stores across the United States and was the second-largest toy retailer in the U.S., but it began to struggle in the early 21st century, declaring bankruptcy in both 2004 and 2008 before going out of business on February 9, 2009. The company operated 461 stores at the time of its closure. International retailer Toys "R" Us acquired the remains of K·B Toys, consisting mainly of its website, trademarks, and intellectual property rights. Strategic Marks, a company that buys and revives defunct brands, purchased the brand in 2016, and planned to open new stores using the name begi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toys "R" Us
Toys "R" Us is an American toy, clothing, and baby product retailer owned by Tru Kids (doing business as Tru Kids Brands) and various others. The company was founded in 1948 in Washington, D.C.; its first store was built in April 1948, with its headquarters located in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, in the New York metropolitan area. While originally considered a category killer, the rise of mass merchants and online retailers cost Toys "R" Us its share of the toy market. The company was further hampered by a significant debt load, the result of a leveraged buyout organized by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Bain Capital, and real estate firm Vornado Realty Trust, Vornado. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2017 and 2018, closing all of its stores in the US, UK, and Australia, with the last US stores closing in 2021. Operations in other international markets such as Asia and Africa were less affected, but chains in Canada, parts of Europe and Asia were eventu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mortal Kombat (1992 Video Game)
''Mortal Kombat'' is a 1992 fighting game developed and published by Midway Games, Midway. It is the first entry in the ''Mortal Kombat'' series and was subsequently released by Acclaim Entertainment for nearly every home console, home platform at that time. The game focuses on several characters of various intentions who enter a martial arts tournament with worldly consequences. It introduced many key aspects of the ''Mortal Kombat'' series, including the unique five-button control scheme and gory finishing moves called Fatality (Mortal Kombat), Fatalities. ''Mortal Kombat'' is considered by critics to be List of video games considered the best, one of the greatest video games ever made. It spawned numerous sequels and spin-offs, beginning with ''Mortal Kombat II'' in 1993. Both games were the subject of a Mortal Kombat (1995 film), film adaptation in 1995. However, Controversies surrounding Mortal Kombat, it also sparked much controversy for its depiction of extreme violence a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lethal Enforcers
is a 1992 light gun shooter released as an arcade video game by Konami. The graphics consist entirely of digitized photographs and digitized sprites. Home versions were released for the Super NES, Genesis and Sega CD during the following year and include a revolver-shaped light gun known as The Justifier. The game was a critical and commercial success, becoming one of the top five highest-grossing dedicated arcade games of 1993 in the United States, but it caused controversy as it allowed players to shoot photorealistic representations of enemies. ''Lethal Enforcers'' was followed by '' Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters''. Both games would later be released in the two-in-one compilation ''Lethal Enforcers I & II'' (''Lethal Enforcers Deluxe Pack'' in Japan) for the PlayStation. Years later, Konami released the '' Police 911'' series as a Japan-themed sequel to the original plot. This was also followed by the arcade game ''Heroes of Justice'', which was localized and renamed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993–94 United States Senate Hearings On Video Games
On December 9, 1993, and March 4, 1994, members of the combined United States Senate Committees on United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Governmental Affairs and United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the Judiciary held congressional hearings with several spokespersons for companies in the video game industry including Nintendo and Sega, involving violence in video games and the perceived impacts on children. The hearing was a result of concerns raised by members of the public on the 1993 releases of ''Night Trap'', ''Mortal Kombat (1992 video game), Mortal Kombat'' and later ''Doom (1993 video game), Doom'' which was released after the first hearing. Besides general concerns related to violence in video games, the situation had been inflamed by a moral panic over gun violence, as well as the state of the industry and an intense rivalry between Sega and Nintendo. The hearings, led by Senators Joe Lieberman and Herb Kohl, put the vid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
B Movie
A B movie, or B film, is a type of cheap, low-budget commercial motion picture. Originally, during the Classical Hollywood cinema, Golden Age of Hollywood, this term specifically referred to films meant to be shown as the lesser-known second half of a double feature, somewhat similar to A-side and B-side, B-sides in recorded music. However, the production of such films as "second features" in the United States largely declined by the end of the 1950s. This shift was due to the rise of commercial television, which prompted film studio B movie production departments to transition into television film production divisions. These divisions continued to create content similar to B movies, albeit in the form of low-budget films and series. Today, the term "B movie" is used in a broader sense. In post-Golden Age usage, B movies can encompass a wide spectrum of films, ranging from sensationalistic exploitation films to independent arthouse productions. In either usage, most B movies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasbro
Hasbro, Inc. (; a syllabic abbreviation of its original name, Hassenfeld Brothers) is an American multinational corporation, multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment holding company founded on December 6, 1923 by Henry, Hillel and Herman Hassenfeld and is incorporated and headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Hasbro owns the trademarks and products of Kenner Products, Kenner, Milton Bradley Company, Milton Bradley, Parker Brothers, and Wizards of the Coast, among others. As of August 2020, over 81.5% of its shares were held by large financial institutions. Among Hasbro's products are ''Transformers'', ''G.I. Joe'', ''Power Rangers'', Rom the Space Knight, Micronauts, ''M.A.S.K. (franchise), M.A.S.K.'', ''Monopoly (game), Monopoly'', Furby, Nerf, Mr. Potato Head, Potato Head, ''Bop It!'', Play-Doh, ''Twister (game), Twister'', and ''My Little Pony'', and with the Entertainment One (now Lionsgate Canada) acquisition on December 30, 2019, franchises like ''Peppa Pig'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Control-Vision
The Control-Vision (codenamed NEMO) is an unreleased video game console developed by Tom Zito. It is notable for using VHS tapes rather than ROM cartridges, prompting the creation of game content which survived on into much more advanced CD-ROM platforms. History Originally codenamed "NEMO", initial development began in 1985 and was supported by Nolan Bushnell's company Axlon. The team, which included Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak, created a prototype using a modified ColecoVision console to combine interactive images with a video stream transmitted through a cable. As a storage medium, NEMO employs VHS tapes that contain computer data alongside interleaved tracks of video and audio that can be toggled. To take the project beyond prototype status, they searched for a partner who would fund further development. The Hasbro toy company agreed to invest $7 million in exchange for the video game rights to the technology. Three short trial games were finished by the mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axlon
The Catalyst Technologies Venture Capital Group was one of the first technology company incubators. It was founded in 1981 in Sunnyvale, California100 Most Popular Scientists for Young Adults: Biographical Sketches and Professional Paths retrieved 2007-07-23 by co-founder and received much assistance from fellow Atari luminary, Al Alcorn
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Vampire
A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the Vitalism, vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead, undead humanoid creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods which they inhabited while they were alive. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early 19th century. Vampiric entities have been Vampire folklore by region, recorded in cultures around the world; the term ''vampire'' was popularized in Western Europe after reports of an 18th-century mass hysteria of a pre-existing folk belief in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Eastern Europe that in some cases resulted in corpses being staked and people being accused of vampirism. Local variants in Southeastern Europe were also known by different names, such as ''shtriga'' in Albanian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
