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An adventure InteractiveMovie video game produced by Creator/DigitalPictures and released in 1993 for [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Sega CD]], 1994 for UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn, and 1995 for PC. It was re-released for iOS and Android in 2016 by Flash Film Works. Screaming Villains, alongside Flash Film Works, and Limited Run Games released a 25th Anniversary Edition of the game on December 13th 2018 for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and on October 5th 2019 for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch. The game has a similar format to their earlier game, ''VideoGame/NightTrap''.

* InterfaceSpoiler: The interface on the [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Sega CD]], UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn, and PC versions have little colored dots to determine if said dot is a tenant/Eddie (Green), members of a secret society (Red), or mobsters/Lyle (Yellow). The 2016 iOS/Android rerelease, and the 25th Anniversary Edition, on the other hand, change the interface to make it feel more like a security system, with footage of what's going on while you're focused on another room.[[note]]That said, on the 25th Anniversary Edition, you can choose to play the game using either the Sega CD, Sega Saturn, PC, or "modern" interfaces.[[/note]]

* CreatorInJoke: When Eddie's mother (played by [[Music/{{Blondie}} Deborah Harry]]) meets the talent scout who comes to audition the band:

An adventure InteractiveMovie video game produced by Creator/DigitalPictures and released for [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Sega CD]], UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn and PC. It was re-released for iOS and Android in 2016 by Flash Film Works. Screaming Villains, alongside Flash Film Works, and Limited Run Games released a 25th Anniversary Edition of the game on December 13th, 2018, for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on October 5, 2019. The game has a similar format to their earlier game, ''VideoGame/NightTrap''.

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: [[spoiler:Eddie]] loves his mother very much, possibly to OedipusComplex levels.

* OedipusComplex: Eddie gives off very strong vibes of this, because he apparently wishes that his father was dead, and he loves his mother.
-->'''Eddie (to Lyle):''' Hey, why don't you just shut up, alright?! Why don't you just get the hell out of our lives?!
-->'''Lyle:''' Eddie, your mother and I are worried!!
-->'''Eddie:''' Don't you talk about my mother, alright?! This is my building, MINE! If it wasn't for me, this place would be crater city! Now if you mess with me, you're gonna get it! Got it?!
-->'''Lyle:''' Well, we'll see about that!
-->'''Eddie (to the player):''' The old man just doesn't get it, does he?

An adventure InteractiveMovie FullMotionVideo game produced by Creator/DigitalPictures and released for [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Sega CD]], UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn and PC. It was re-released for iOS and Android in 2016 by Flash Film Works. Screaming Villains, alongside Flash Film Works, and Limited Run Games released a 25th Anniversary Edition of the game on December 13th, 2018, for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on October 5, 2019. The game has a similar format to their earlier game, ''VideoGame/NightTrap''.

* PressStartToGameOver: Just like its older brother ''VideoGame/NightTrap'', if you stay idle on the intro cinematic, you automatically get a GameOver for just doing nothing. ''Unlike'' Night Trap, this was ''not'' removed for the 25th Anniversary Edition.

* PressStartToGameOver: Just like its older brother ''VideoGame/NightTrap'', if you stay idle on the intro cinematic, you automatically get a GameOver for just doing nothing.

* HarmlessElectrocution: Lyle overloads the security system in the final act, electrifying all of the "hidden" traps.

* TakeThat: "You tell [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Luigi and Mario]] their days are numbered!" [[note]] For context, Brutus is actually talking about a pair of mob bosses he owes money. [[/note]]

* TakeThat: "You tell [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Luigi and Mario]] their days are numbered!" [[note]] In context, Brutus is talking about a pair of mob bosses he owes money. [[/note]]

* TakeThat: "You tell [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Luigi and Mario]] their days are numbered!"

You play as an anonymous Internet user whose device suddenly gains access to the security system of the Edward Arms, a old Egyptian-themed American hotel. A young man named Eddie introduces himself as the creator of the system, as well as the architect of an extensive array of booby traps designed to capture intruders. However, Eddie has been locked in the basement and cut off from the controls, so it falls to you to take over the Edward Arms' cameras and traps, and protect the tenants from a stream of invaders searching the hotel for ''something.''

An adventure InteractiveMovie FullMotionVideo game produced by Creator/DigitalPictures and released for [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Sega CD]], UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn and PC. It was re-released for iOS and Android in 2016 by Flash Film Works. Screaming Villains, alongside Flash Film Works, and Limited Run Games released a 25th Anniversary Edition of the game on December 13th, 2018, for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, with a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch release on a later date. The game has a similar format to their earlier game, ''VideoGame/NightTrap''.

* Jerkass: Eddie, while being friendly enough throughout Act 1, he tends to be condescending and hateful, if you mess up and get a game over. His comments range from being snarky to downright awful. This aspect of his personality becomes more apparent in later acts.

* GameOverMan: Eddie (played by Creator/CoreyHaim) becomes this role for Act 1, and the first half of Act 2. Lyle the Handyman (played by Creator/RLeeErmey) takes over the role for the second half of Act 2, and all of Act 3.

* MamaDidntRaiseNoCriminal: [[spoiler:Eddie's]] mother knows that her son is insane. However, she is strongly in denial over it and even acts as his accomplice at one point.

* BigNo: [[spoiler:Eddie]] yells this a few times when you trap him at the end of the game.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Much like ''VideoGame/NightTrap'', the events that happen in the game happen in real time, so while you go around trapping gangsters and intruders, you miss crucial story details, especially when Act 2 rolls around, when Lyle reveals secret traps that are required to trap [[spoiler:Eddie]] near the end of the game. Now while you have to ward off even more intruders [[spoiler:and Eddie trying to switch you off from the basement]], you also have to watch Lyle reveal the secret traps, because if you miss just one, the game becomes {{Unwinnable}}.

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Eddie loves his mother very much, possibly to OedipusComplex levels.

* GameOverMan: Some of the GameOver sequences have Lyle the Handyman (played by Creator/RLeeErmey) take this role.
** And he's very effective in this role at that; when he berates you for screwing up, his tone of voice and his diction sounds ''very strongly'' like a father scolding you for having stupidly broken your mother's priceless china collection, or for misbehaving in school. Given what is revealed about Lyle later, this is deliberate on the game's part.

* HeroAntagonist: Lyle the Handyman is definitely this. In the beginning, Eddie tells you to trap him, because he's screwed everything up for him. However, after you set Eddie free, [[spoiler:Lyle is revealed to be Eddie's dad, and he locked him in the basement to protect the tenants from his psychotic rampage.]] He creates special traps that you need to listen to, as these are required to trap [[spoiler:Eddie]].

* StalkerWithACrush: Eddie seems to have a crush on Alex. However, this seems to be subverted after Alex tells him about the story she's writing about the Edward Arms.

* InterfaceSpoiler: The interface on the [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Sega CD]], UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn, and PC versions have little colored dots to determine if said dot is a tenant/Eddie (Green), members of a secret society (Yellow), or mobsters/Lyle (Red). The 2016 iOS/Android rerelease, and the 25th Anniversary Edition, on the other hand, changes the interface to make it feel more like a security system, with footage of what's going on while you're focused on another room.