night trap, a flagship title of the sega-cd video game system, puts you in control of a household security grid during a teenage girl’s slumber party. murderers come in from every room in the house, and it’s your job to “trap” (see also, “kill”) them with booby traps consisting of sliding walls, walls that slide away, and wall panels with sliders built into them so that the wall slides.

here’s the thing, though: if you don’t stop the murderers, the murderers murder people. that was way too much responsibility for me as a kid. let’s say you’re watching 4 of the girls having a pillow fight on the bedroom camera (awesome) the fifth girl’s probably getting murdered in the bathroom. however, if you switch to the bathroom camera (double awesome), you miss nubile teens in nighties pretend to fight with pillows.

isn’t that sort of a fucked up choice to give to a kid? (answer: yes.)