10 Overblown Video Game Controversies

Night Trap was one of the reasons why the ESRB (Entertainment Software Ratings Board) was created, slapping their age restrictions on all your favourite games.

Its gameplay consists of flicking between full-motion video camera footage and pressing a button when the blood-sucking vampire dudes, or whatever, stumble in. They're covered in black and hobble around in the barmiest of ways. And yet it was called out for its violence.

The game's “violence” is comical and exaggerated at best, as if the aforementioned pitch didn't give it away already. If you don't protect the girls in the house by activating the traps against the intruders, they will drain the blood from them with unrealistic, over-sized needles.

There was no nudity or violence against women – in fact, the most violent thing you'll see is if some of the women get captured, and is lightly tugged by the vampires in black - yet the US senators cried out and claimed it would incite gamers to trap and torture these poor ladies, probably for sexual arousal, knowing those old farts.

Night Trap was pretty rubbish, not to mention so cheesy you could wrap two slices of bread around it and call it a sandwich. While the criticism it received was incredibly far from the truth, it still resulted in the creation of the contemporary ratings system.