10 Most Infamous Unreleased Gaming Consoles

5. Control-Vision

Remember Night Trap? One of the first and most infamous games released for the Sega/Mega CD, it was a weird interactive B-movie where you had to save a bunch of young women from some seriously stupid looking vampires called Augers. And Dana Plato is in it.

The movie portion looks weirdly dated for a game released in 1992, and there's a very good reason for that: It was shot in 1987. Why? It was a proof of concept title for Control-Vision, a console developed by Tom Zito for interactive movies that used VHS tapes as storage.

After an initial round of funding by Nolan Bushnell, toy giant Hasbro invested $7 million (about $15.2 million with inflation) into the project, but after filming finished in 1987 on the second full-length title, Sewer Shark, they gave up on the project and Zito bought the rights to everything. Digital Pictures, the company that released Night Trap and Sewer Shark in the CD era, was owned by Zito.

It was certainly more advanced than Action Max, another VHS-based system that did see the light of day in 1987, but ultimately, it was going to be limited to bad interactive movies, as the eventual CD-based versions proved. As for Night Trap, its legacy is as one of the lightning rods of the video game violence controversies of the early '90s. For some reason, even though the game was about saving the girls from vampires, much of the news coverage centered around the idea of trapping the young women themselves.