Time Trotters: Night Trap

The acting could be a bit better. Especially from that Rich guy. 4/5

o yes Dana Plato poor thing got her carer ruined by getting pregnant while doing different strokes ... man some people can be so prudish ... o well what am i saying here in australia we still dont have a 18 rateing for games

10:52 absolutely killed me, still laughing.

Another great episode. Didn't know Night Trap was actually that short.

That was great!

Goddamn this was some beautiful shit.

Sweet Jesus...

Amazing...LOVE IT!

This is amazing and needs to be made into a Saturday morning cartoon series!

This was great. I would love more of this. The animation part of it isn't necessary; just the Jeff and Ryan playing old games and making fun of them to some extent. Quick Looks are almost serious looks at a game, but these are clearly a good bit farcical in nature. If we had some videos like this(as some Quick Looks have become and the Game Room videos were) coming out, that would be fantastic. :)

@TruthTellah: I like how they bring some prior knowledge into these rather than the "pure" quick look style.

Fuck I miss Rich.

@TimFReilly: Yeah, they have a foundation with which to build up jokes even further. I like the pure style of Quick Looks, but these have a charm all their own. A bit like playing games they used to play(such as, Load Our Last Save) and ones they are nostalgic about(such as, Game Room or Retro Gaming videos). Independent of the animation, I really think they could try to do some more videos like this just focused on their directed commentary on some games. It would give a nice contrast to the more common, off-the-cuff Quick Looks.

I have not been watching these. I have been fuckin up. This is magic.

@Mezmero said:

To be clear I love this old piece of video. I miss the the older videos with a lot more focus on editing like TANG and reviews. I know its a lot more work to put together such a paltry amount of video content especially when compared to the efficiency of live stream captures. At least I know I'll have the GOTY stuff to look forward to every year. I wouldn't want to change the way you guys do things because you are changing all the time anyways but I really do miss Vinny's old school edits. Just try to make it back from E3 alive.

Yeah, pretty much. And all that highly edited stuff is well worth watching again and again and I do. To be clear, the humour didn't really hit for me on much of this but I love seeing this kind of glossy, highly polished content and still appreciate it.

CODE NAME MIKE CAUGHT A HOT ONE TO THE NECK!

80's mustache! I like this even if it's a QL with a cartoon intro.

So when will Night Trap be available on XBLA?

That was great.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......

MUST HAVE MORE TIME TROTTERS! This can't be the last episode! You could get Rich to do his charector's voice over the phone!

that was great and Ed boon making a cameo be it as the penguin that time jumps with them although where the penguin came from i dunno.

Can I just say. Those trumpets are dope!

This is magnificent.

Love this. My favorite part is when they play the horrible game and MST3K it.

Now I can just die

R.I.P. Dana Plato

I thought mk was the reason for the esrb.

I like how Jeff (and Ryan) become Old Snake.

@featurepreacher said:

I thought mk was the reason for the esrb.

MK is one of the notable reasons, others being Doom, Lethal Force, and in this case, Night Trap.

This is the best thing I've ever seen. Ever. Seen. Ever.

@featurepreacher said:

I thought mk was the reason for the esrb.

Read some books about the history of games. MK was only part of that entire debacle.

Normalized volume, it is the way of the future man!

Awesome to see the progenitor of Quick Looks! Thank you for making these Time Trotters episodes available. I remember waiting for these back when I would hang out on Gamespot all night, every night as a teenager. Feel very nostalgic right now...damn you, gin!

Man, I really love that music that plays while Trivia Robot jumps.

I love all the animation but what I take from this is that quicklooks of old/crappy games are the best.

More quicklook throwbacks!

Joe Lieberman got smoked.

Totes cool with that!

Sweet love of God. So this is what old video game sites do when they try to be cool? Thank Jesus this is no longer a thing.

Love the music when they were going back.. so good.

Time Trotters T-Shirt....make it happen.

Never stop producing content that revolves around Night Trap.

I want one thousand more Time Trotters.

wtf was that? (I think I remember them mentioning this in a previous bobmbcast) I kinda want to see more!

That was great! More please!

The best part is when Rich goes "Oh really!!" 7 seconds in.

@fusrodah said:

This episode is way darker knowing that Dana Plato is dead and Joe Lieberman is still in the Senate

I just looked it up, and wow, I didn't realize Dana Plato's career and life became such a downward spiral after Diff'rent Strokes.

@Ethan_Raiden said:

is there an older version of 21 jump street that ive not heard about or something?

It was a TV show in the late 80s well before the recent movie, if that's what you're asking.

@HellBound said:

@Toxin066: What is the story behind "nuke.com"?

Nuke was a video game website. Its parent company was Sendai Media Group. Sendai was purchased by Ziff-Davis in 1996 and Nuke became Electronic Gaming Monthly's online presence. It was shut down not long after, GameSpot became EGM's online presence, and nuke.com started redirecting to GameSpot. The nuke.com domain name must have been included in the sale of ZDNet to CNET, because in 2007 it became an evil presence. Then at some point between 2008 and 2010 (probably 2008) it returned to a GameSpot redirect. If you're curious, here's a blog from someone who actually worked at Nuke.com.

This stuff is so delicious!

This is the best. Too bad it wasn't reasonable to keep making this.

No thanks.

@Vrikk said:

Sweet love of God. So this is what old video game sites do when they try to be cool? Thank Jesus this is no longer a thing.

Please... PLease make this a thing again. One of the best gaming shows ever. It reminds me of Gametrailers Fact or Fiction mixed with Giantbombs Quicklook goodiness.