Christmas NiGHTS Into Dreams – SEGA’s Timeless Gift!

Unlocking every present and taking a look at the history of Christmas NiGHTS Into Dreams!
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Music used with permission:
NiGHTS – Carol of the Frozen Bell
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Gameplay Videos on 2nd Channel:
Movie 1 – https://youtu.be/eC7x_1wIXKc
Movie 2 – https://youtu.be/5fffkdM68wM
Sonic in NiGHTS – https://youtu.be/mqVdOZl20RU

Video contents:
00:00 Intro
00:34 Gameplay
02:09 Presents
14:31 Story Time
16:13 More Unlockables
17:36 Conclusion

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If you couldn’t guess already, NiGHTS Into Dreams is one of my favourite games of all time, but did you know there’s also a Christmas themed demo of the game which was given away for free in this magazine back in 1997?

At its core Christmas NiGHTS is a reskinned game demo with only one level and two playable characters. On the surface it doesn’t sound like much, but dig a bit deeper and there’s a very rewarding game experience hidden away which makes it so much more than the sum of it’s parts!

It’s become a Christmas tradition for many retro gamers all over the world!

Here in the U.K, Christmas NiGHTS Into Dreams was given away for free in the official Saturn magazine in 1997. Japan and America actually got the game a year earlier, In Japan it was for sale as a standard retail release and in America it was also given away in magazines. An interesting note about the magazine gives is that they still had to pay full royalties to Sega of Japan according to Richard Leadbetter, who was the editor for Saturn magazine at the time, and of course now is part of the amazing digital boundary.

Being. Nintendo Kid in the 90’s meant that I didn’t get it until much later, I actually found it by chance at the game stall in the Birmingham market! I remember being so excited to see it, but I didn’t have any money with me, so I told my friend to stay there and make sure no one bought it while I ran off back into the shopping centre to withdraw the £15 they were asking for it!

The thing that makes Christmas NiGHTS so unique is the fact that it can read the internal clock on the Sega Saturn and change the scenery and music depending on the time and date. Of course I like to try and play he game on Christmas Day when everything is at it’s most festive, but there’s also some other special dates which I will cover later in this video.

The main hook of the game comes from the presents that you can open after finishing the level. There’s a total of 24 unlockables and to get them you have to replay the stage over and over. Doing this means that over time you will become intimately familiar with every part of the stage.

The idea of NiGHTS is to fly around a course and collect enough blue orbs to fill up this machine in the stage, once you’ve filled it up, you enter bonus time. This is time to spend gaining more points before going back into the central

Unlockables:
* Link Attack
* Music Box
* Museum
* Karaoke
* Videos (Two trailers of the standard NiGHTS into Dreams can be unlocked, ths first being from the ’96 Tokyo Toy Show (where the game first debuted) and the second a “summer special” trailer.)
* NiGHTS Goods
* Nightopian Collection
* Time Attack
* Sonic the Hedgehog into Dreams

Time of day differences:
Time Background Falling objects in foreground
0 Moon Hearts
01 Moon Snow
06 Northern Lights Snow
07 Sun Snow
08 Sun Moons
10 Sun Snow
12 Rainbow Purple gems
13 Sun Snow
15 Sun Candy
16 Sun Snow
18 Moon Snow (though less of it)
19 Moon Snow
21 Moon Stars
22 Moon Snow
New Years Day New title screen
Valentines Day Hearts
April fools Day Play as Reala

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