Tag Archives: Snatcher

The Sega CD was never one thing. It could be a rock-scored shooter, a hand-drawn cartoon, a huge role-playing journey, or an interactive movie that asked you to watch every camera at once. That restless variety is what makes its library so much fun to revisit. Would you rather watch than read? Settle in with our video countdown below, then return to the write-ups and images whenever you want a closer look.… Read more

The television shows a woman trapped in a house. You switch camera feeds, wait for intruders to enter a room, and spring a trap. Then you miss one. On the box, Night Trap looks like the movie games were finally going to become. In your hands, it is an awkward game about watching several grainy screens at once. A few months later, politicians would discuss it as though the machine under the… Read more

Hideo Kojima is known for pushing the boundaries of video games, but during the development of Snatcher he almost took things into a whole new dimension — smell. Kojima wanted the game’s floppy disks coated in a special chemical that, when heated by the computer, would release the scent of blood. His vision? To fill the room with the “stench of a murder scene” during key moments in the game. Imagine playing… Read more