Senators Called Night Trap Violence Against Women
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.
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- Archive1
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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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