Did you know... Petz brand was inspired by...Night Trap!?

“Friends of mine, my parents and my girlfriend, didn’t really get games. All they knew was that a game that I had made was on TV (Night Trap), being talked about as being bad for kids. And, you know, Captain Kangaroo came on TV and said, ‘This is bad for kids.’ It was horrible. (I was to make a game that) was going to be so cute and so adorable that no one could ever, ever, ever say that. … What’s the cutest thing I could make? What’s the most, you know, sissy game that I could come out with? ‘It’s still the same, the most popular thing that kids ask for every year is a puppy. For the last 50 years.’ So the two just came together. It was make a puppy. That was really how the idea (for Petz) came out.” - game industry veteran Rob Fulop

Man, I find that story really surprising. I had no idea that the brains behind Night Trap was also behind the Petz series, which is arguably much scarier!

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