Branching narratives and multiple endings, interactive TV is rooted in games. Some of it is fun. Some is so bad it's good. One is from Russia.
And before that, of course, was the 1983 home game-meets-film laserdisc sensation “Dragon’s Lair.”
None of these moments ever coalesced into a full-on movement, but the point isn’t to laugh at or roll our eyes at failed predictions. This month’s interactive “Kimmy vs. the Reverend” episode of Netflix’s “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” shows that the merging of games with traditional film or television remains a tantalizing problem to solve for entertainment creators.
“has no place in our society.” Indeed, there are many unfortunate issues with “Night Trap,” whether it’s the controversial teen horror content or the gameplay. The game also did itself no favors coming out at the height of ’90s-era fears about video game content with a story designed to raise eyebrows. Lincoln’s condemnation of “Night Trap” was given before a U.S. Senate committee on video game violence, and the game is said to be one of the reasons the industry adopted its own rating system in 1994.
Yet although Lincoln pledged that the Dana Plato-starring “Night Trap” would never make its way to a Nintendo console, the 25th anniversary edition of the game did just that. “Night Trap,” with extras, including a proof-of-concept demo, recently found its way to the Nintendo Switch .
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