Sameko Saba Plays Three Odd Nintendo eShop Finds, Then Gets ‘Fired’ in Night Trap

INDEPENDENT — Sameko Saba spent a three-hour stream working through three games she said she had dug up on the Nintendo eShop, ending on the 1992 full-motion-video title Night Trap, in which the game repeatedly cut her off for missing its trap codes.

Saba opened with a Mario-style platformer she called “fart Mario,” streaming from a Switch for the first time. She said the eShop was full of clocks, calculators and other odd apps, and that she had sifted through an alarming number of AI-made games to find her picks. In the platformer she died repeatedly to a bird boss, blamed capture-card lag and, after several promised final attempts around the 1 hour 20 minute mark, gave up and moved on.

“I didn’t say the games were going to be good. I just said they’re from the Nintendo eShop.” — Sameko Saba, partway through the Santa game

The second game was a Christmas-themed one with six Santa Claus characters, played in Saba’s own voices for the dialogue. It ended with the secretive Santa revealed to have been sneaking off to a rival video game store and seeing 12 partners. Saba called it silly and said the game had been bad but entertaining.

Night Trap, re-released in 2017 after its original 1992 launch, was the hardest of the three. Saba said she had looked up a guide before the stream and explained that the player must switch between cameras, wait for a light to turn red, and enter the right color code to trap intruders, with the household announcing code changes in conversation. The game dismissed Saba several times for missed intruders, and Saba finished by saying she had tried but could not manage the codes.

Chat answered the Santa game with lines such as “Game of the year,” and filled the close of the stream with “Sababye” farewells. Saba said a finished vocal cover was waiting on visuals, that a movie-game series was due to start in November, and that the next stream might be a scary game and maybe a PC one.