It's wrapped up in that whole 1990s controversy in entertainment, where bureaucrats and politicians were trying to effectively censor "violent" video games and vulgar music. I've never actually played an FMV game that I remember, but I'm pretty keen on video game history, and Night Trap is a title that has always stuck out in my mind. The game certainly stuck in the mind for years due to it over the top acting and hard dinosaur questions. The funny thing is the game was particularly hard with it’s questions, the only era i ever got any questions right were the Jurassic era. The game involved you traveling around a map and answering various questions about Dinosaurs from different eras. One called Zombie Dinos, which featured a puppet named Dexter the Dineoroid, and voiced by Cam Clarke, who’s best known for being Leonardo in the 80’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cartoons. And although none we really good, they sure were memorable. My Dad had purchased one, and the games were pretty much all FMV type games. Zombie Dinos (1992) - Greg Burke, Lives in the minesįor FMV games one system comes to mind.
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It’s corny, timing a shot properly was almost impossible, but dang if it just ain’t chock full of enough nostalgia to make me forgive all its shortcomings. The prospector looks like a sunburnt Michael McDonald that would be just as likely to bust out a banjo rendition of Taking it to the Streets as he would to mine for gold.īut when I think FMV games this is always the first one that comes to mind.
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It’s your standard stranger rolls into town and saves the day cowboy story.but the acting is just flat-out godawful. If you took the world’s worst spaghetti western script and gave it to a local community college theater troop to produce you’d probably end up with something similar to Mad Dog McCree. Mad Dog McCree (1990) - Blake Morse, Rootin’ Tootin’ Cowpoke The animation still holds up, even if this game's quarter-munching business model doesn't.
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It was worth it to watch Dirk the Daring get killed over and over in more and more hilarious fashion. And just imagine impressionable young me wanting to see more of the story play out as I pumped in about… oh, I don't know… about $20 worth of quarters into the machine. Yes, I remember being hypnotized by the gorgeous Don Bluth animation that played out in Dragon's Lair, which looked much more like a Saturday morning cartoon than an arcade game. I'll be honest, I haven't played a lot of FMV games, but one of the few that I remember is this arcade classic. Have fun reading the entries, and be sure to respond to our picks and share your own in the Chatty comments below.ĭragon's Lair (1983) - Ozzie Mejia, Senior Editor Each entry is accompanied by a video of gameplay so you can see how much FMV changed-or didn't-as technology evolved.
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For fun, we decided to organize our answers chronologically according to release. FMV is less a genre, more an art style that can be applied to any genre, but is most commonly associated with point-and-click adventure adventures. This week's topic arose from a discussion the Shacknews staff had off the cuff. This recurring feature offers the staff an opportunity to learn more about our gaming tastes and invite you, our readership, into the discussion. Welcome back to Shack Chat, our Friday feature where the Shack Staff opines on a subject related to video games, then invites our Chatty community to weigh in.