Anyone else REALLY miss 90s FMV games? I feel like the nostalgia wave just recently hit me for them. I remember thinking they were the future of video games in the mid 90s, and then they just.. weren't. There's just a charm to them now that can't be replicated, and they are so fun to go back to! - ThreadSky

retroblast.bsky.social • 146 days ago

Anyone else REALLY miss 90s FMV games? I feel like the nostalgia wave just recently hit me for them.

I remember thinking they were the future of video games in the mid 90s, and then they just.. weren't.

There's just a charm to them now that can't be replicated, and they are so fun to go back to!

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coolmediaretro.bsky.social•145 days ago

It is nice to see them making a comeback in recent years. I actually had a blast with Night Shift!

inthegamewayne.bsky.social•146 days ago

C&C red alert were classic FMV cut scenes.

noodlessl.bsky.social•146 days ago

I still think about this dude for some reason randomly.

"Want some rye?..... Course ya do."

https://youtu.be/QX_ffceGLCU?si=YPhtrW1kjJMcvGqE

goldenaxedoom.bsky.social•146 days ago

90FMV games r great because we got Harvester out of it

spoonshiro.com•146 days ago

I do still love a few of them like MegaRace and Commander Blood but yeah they had just the barest minimum of gameplay between a lot of surreal CGI spectacle.

defyeler.bsky.social•146 days ago

Ah, the visual novels that turned me off to visual novels games 😂

mkelley21.bsky.social•146 days ago

I loved Dracula Unleashed

focusbreak.bsky.social•146 days ago

fmv games are awesome. They're still awesome. We need way more of them too!

becky.posts.games•146 days ago

SPAAAAAAACE!

Hell yeah I miss these 🤣. I remember playing Star Trek Klingon Academy for the first time and the intro cinematic has Christopher Plummer in full makeup as General Chang and it’s GLORIOUS!

becky.posts.games•146 days ago

I mean seriously it’s like watching the start of a full on movie. for all the graphical improvements I think we’ve really lost something with people not using real sets and actors. Especially when we have actual actors being scanned like Norman Reedus as Sam Bridges in DS.

https://youtu.be/bdSJ01L4amg?si=bOTMxyTJEZ7G7Lvp

erebusmaligan.bsky.social•146 days ago

Oh yeah... i totally forgot all the star trek games with heavy FMV. The academy games and that borg choose your own adventure one. I actually did enjoy those at the time, but don't recall much about them today.

allenserhel.bsky.social•146 days ago

Man, unrelated to gaming, but Chris Plummer absolutely chewed the scenery as Chang. He was incredible.

becky.posts.games•146 days ago

Agreed! Undiscovered Country is definitely one of my favourites. My best friend and I can practically quote it scene for scene lol 😅. Same for Wrath of Khan.

allenserhel.bsky.social•146 days ago

Nicholas Meyer is just 🤌

crossknights.bsky.social•145 days ago

Sam Barlow seems to be the only one making anything close and even then the vib is different.

retropat.bsky.social•146 days ago

Loved the American Laser arcade shooters, like Mad Dog McCree

retroblast.bsky.social•146 days ago

TRY ANOTHER!!!

*miss*

wardenofsouls.bsky.social•146 days ago

What is the second one? I know the other 3

nshade666.bsky.social•146 days ago

I believe they are(clockwise from top left) night trap,double switch,phantasmagoria,and gabrielle knight 2:the beast within

wardenofsouls.bsky.social•146 days ago

Never heard of double switch.

I have played the other 3 though

nshade666.bsky.social•146 days ago

Double switch’s claim to fame was it featured corey haim and deborah harry in a very night trap’esque game. It was rereleased not long ago on switch,steam,and ps4

retroblast.bsky.social•146 days ago

Correct!

birdmanguelph.bsky.social•145 days ago

My first serious computer game was the X Files game. I bought my first computer for that game actually.

bytemapper.bsky.social•146 days ago

Worth it to get the Gabriel Knight sequel IMO. I love the intrinsic charm of these though, like these are folks giving their all on something that looks like it wouldn't be out of place on an activity disk for Aladdin.

suswarlock.bsky.social•145 days ago

That Night Trap song is perpetually stuck in my head. “Watch out behind you~ NIGHT TRAP!”

erebusmaligan.bsky.social•146 days ago

On this one... i'm a dude standing next to you slowly inching away from you and hoping you don't notice. 😜

The only one i remember that I really played that sort of had this was 7th guest. And while i did like the puzzles... the overacted fmv parts weren't super memorable to me.

retroblast.bsky.social•146 days ago

Haha! Honestly one of the reasons I love them so much is they feel like a time capsule and there's so much cheese that I eat it up. Just fun times.

erebusmaligan.bsky.social•146 days ago

If you are in the mood for that B... er C movie type cheese, then yeah, for sure from what I've seen, these are a gold mine. That, I can't argue with. 🤷‍♂️

erebusmaligan.bsky.social•146 days ago

And for clarification, i'm not opposed to that. While this particularly is not my thing. Some of my favorite memories are sitting down to watch a sunday B movie on sci-fi channel with my dad. So at some level i do get the appeal.

retroblast.bsky.social•146 days ago

It's a lot like that for me, I played a lot of these because they were popular at the time and we had just gotten a CD-Rom computer in my house. I have a lot of fond memories!

sinseers.bsky.social•145 days ago

Prize Fighter on Sega CD was top tier FMV gaming IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94h_FR_AHf8

sergorndragon.bsky.social•146 days ago

God yes, I loved them and while there were tons of pointless FMV stuff, there were also plenty of games that were TRUE games and a great use of FMV.

I'd love a modern take on C&C, Wing Commander or Gabriel Knight that includes FMV with what you can do now.

sergorndragon.bsky.social•146 days ago

Like Tempest Rising looks like a great C&C successor, but it'd look ever better if it had FMVs instead fo 3D cutscenes/dialogues.

nshade666.bsky.social•146 days ago

What about the tex murphy games?

sergorndragon.bsky.social•146 days ago

Never got around to play them sadly !

shinobibryant.bsky.social•146 days ago

I do. I remember playing the power rangers one (on sega cd i think?). Fun times, I miss the 90s 😂

geraldcollings.bsky.social•146 days ago

I personally only had a passing interest in them and was never really into them. The main reason being that most efforts were incredibly repetitive. I did really enjoy the Sherlock Holmes sega cd games, though.

lostdomino.bsky.social•146 days ago

7th Guest is always going to be a special one but another FMV bit that's stuck with me was the Host of Mega Race, Lance Boyle.

https://youtu.be/SpaCa0bpN6g?si=ME7Z103aaPRtVT3v

rewoundandrefound.com•146 days ago

YES. Memory Unlocked. Thank you!

raddadredemption.bsky.social•146 days ago

Me. I talk about them everyone's in awhile. Double Switch and Corpse Killer are some of my favs.

retroblast.bsky.social•146 days ago

Double Switch is a friggin' gem!

stealthmantis.bsky.social•146 days ago

I actually just grabbed Night Trap, Corpse Killer, and Double Switch on sale for like 3 bucks each for Switch a couple weeks back!

jrhanlon.bsky.social•146 days ago

I loved FMV integration, like in the Wing Commander games. I had a Sega CD and while Sewer Shark and Night Trap were amusing novelties at first, I soured on those kinds of games pretty quick. All flash, no gameplay. Definitely representative of a specific era of gaming though!

t3hdow.bsky.social•146 days ago

DON'T GO BACK!

arkhangel79.bsky.social•146 days ago

Such a crazy genre, we still play Phantasmagoria occasionally for the nostalgia.

hhtheiii.bsky.social•146 days ago

They are definitely "of their time" but hold an undeniable charm.

I think a FMV format could work well with the walking simulator style of game as they are also quite linear with a unfolding narrative that doesn't deviate too much.

i-m-sparks.bsky.social•146 days ago

There's one I got when my family got our first pc called Silent Steel. It was a submarine game that was a choose your own adventure. Never managed to beat it.

nshade666.bsky.social•146 days ago

Yup got it, my friends and i made a drinking game out of destroying our sub. Not surprisingly we never beat the game either

i-m-sparks.bsky.social•146 days ago

It was a fun game to show your friends because they were convinced they could beat if they tried one more time.

nshade666.bsky.social•146 days ago

I think we started to make a flow chart before we realized a drinking game where we tried to memorize our choices to find the right way was more fun.

retroblast.bsky.social•146 days ago

I had that as well and recently replayed it! It came with our IBM Aptiva we got around 95 or 96? Loved that game!

You boned us, Captain...

retromags.com•146 days ago

I still crush over the lady in WarHawk for the PSx. I should pick up a copy to play....

nerdydude.bsky.social•146 days ago

How can I ever forget them? 😮

thepigeonfish.bsky.social•146 days ago

I fired up Sewer Shark for Sega CD a couple months ago.

I sorta wish some of these games could get remasters. Just to make the video look...not necessarily clean...but less muddy on modern resolution screens. 😅

mkelley21.bsky.social•146 days ago

On the PS5, they have a few. I got Night Trap, Ground Zero Texas and Corpse Killer. I have the Dracula Unleashed playable DVD. I do wish we could have some more though!

ponytatsujin.bsky.social•146 days ago

There's not many games nowadays that nail this level of cheese the 90s had, but the closest game I can think of that...kinda nails this FMV style is Not For Broadcast.

But yeah these games are the only thing I can really say is "so bad they're amazing", especially for the era!

krisxena.bsky.social•146 days ago

Sierra couldn't push them fast enough 😂

rabbitearsblog.bsky.social•140 days ago

Can't believe they stopped making these kinds of games. Would be nice if they made these types of games in current times.

ddigitalmedia.bsky.social•146 days ago

They were ahead of their time as modern ones seem popular enough

ldavis.bsky.social•146 days ago

I definitely hold 7th Guest in my heart

dramaticchipmnk.com•146 days ago

I was just playing Night Trap a couple weeks ago. It's amazing to me how that caused such a Congressional controversy that the designer gave up on horror altogether and made Dogz, the virtual pet game.

handsomeray.bsky.social•146 days ago

It’s almost 10 years old now but check out Contradiction: Spot the Liar! Kickstarted FMV game that does a good job of matching some of the corniness of the 90s stuff while still being fun

Giant Bomb did a really funny series with this at the time too. Vinny had a blast with it

ursrbrot.bsky.social•146 days ago

BURN:CYCLE was my first own computer game ever (a CD-i port, I think?) and boy was it strange

ursrbrot.bsky.social•146 days ago

It came with its own soundtrack CD though, which I really liked listening to!

dev1311.bsky.social•145 days ago

I miss the FMV games so much, especially the crazy unhinged stuff like Ripper and Dracula Unleashed 😂 so good

malckierob.bsky.social•146 days ago

We need those games back. The only two games I remembered playing were Sewer Shark and Double Switch on Sega CD

macabelly.bsky.social•146 days ago

Yeah, that was an era. I'm glad they updated some of the classic like Night Trap.

snesislife.bsky.social•146 days ago

Indeed. I just picked up this 1st edition of Night Trap.

robemstevedave.bsky.social•146 days ago

The X-Files game was sooooooo good!! Wish that type of game caught on.

imcapper.bsky.social•146 days ago

7th Guest was one of my favourite games growing up, and Myst (I'm counting it try and stop me) is one of my favourite gaming experiences. For a long time, my buddy and I wanted to start a game studio and do just FMV games with our actor friends, but life happened, so that never did.

beardparty.bsky.social•146 days ago

A lot of the reason why they failed was how bad the writing, acting and directing was, I'm confidant that if those had been better then the games would've been better and therefore better received, exactly how much better, I don't know.

nshade666.bsky.social•146 days ago

One thing else to add does anyone else remember cinemaware. They made games that,if they were made just a few years later, would have been right at home with some of the better early fmv games(it came from the desert,tv sports series,rocket ranger,etc)

nshade666.bsky.social•146 days ago

Some were great, some less so, but there was something amazing about games like that or playable cartoon adventure games(KQ7,curse of monkey island, broken sword [1,2,&5],etc)that really felt like the pinnacle of entertainment for genX and late boomers.

clregan.bsky.social•146 days ago

FMV games are something that I really love, and I wish that they'd make some kind of comeback! One of my favorite ones is a game called Fox Hunt! Objectively, it's absolutely terrible, but I love it in a "so bad it's good" kinda way, like a B movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffo_aADreQs&t=2s

inferno3000.bsky.social•146 days ago

Not my type of games really, kinda makes me wonder if I'd have got on with them if they had more that were based on the kids shows I'd watch though. :)

gunplagoblin.bsky.social•146 days ago

I had some Star Trek ones that I liked so much. I remember being stuck on a puzzle, so I kept watching Klingons singing, then their ship blowing up lol.

marklaskey60.bsky.social•146 days ago

I certainly remember them mate I remember playing the fmv game sewer shark on the Sega mega cd

radiofreekerbin.bsky.social•145 days ago

I recently tried to play Night Trap again and discovered that somehow I was more patient as a teenager with untreated ADHD

krommagnus.bsky.social•146 days ago

That Sierra one that was based around Aztecs was annoying AF. I got real tired of hearing a dude shout Eldorado in damn near every video.

fbeckpeccoz.bsky.social•146 days ago

Love 'em!

ramgarden.bsky.social•146 days ago

I remember being absolutely scared to death playing Phantasmagoria when it first came out. While at the same time amazed at how they created such a game using the technology of the time.

hardwarelust.bsky.social•145 days ago

I love FMV games. I wish I had made good on my threat to start a collection when they were still cheap.

wiliscool.bsky.social•146 days ago

Scottie Pippen’s Slam City was my favorite. The rare sports FMV.

krisosphere.bsky.social•145 days ago

There is modern take on it. It's called "Not for broadcast".

northwestlowlife.bsky.social•146 days ago

At the time, I think they captured horror really well! Games like 7th Guest and Phantasmagoria will forever be burned into my mind because of the horror they could show! But the thing to remember is that they were all pre-Resident Evil, so they were kind of a first taste too.

ingeniousghost.bsky.social•146 days ago

Yeah, I do miss them, though there have been FMV games made here and there that captured the feel of the old ones pretty well.

shezcrafti.com•146 days ago

Another amazing FMV gem that time forgot... Twisted: The Game Show, from Panasonic 3DO.

This one was incredibly fun and unique.

shezcrafti.com•146 days ago

Yaaas, always! This is why I love Sega CD so much, which had a ton of FMV games.

retroblast.bsky.social•146 days ago

SEGA CD had so many amazing FMV and point and click games in general as well! Sewer Shark, Snatcher, Jurassic Park, Ground Zero Texas, etc... Such an awesome console add-on!

shezcrafti.com•146 days ago

Don't forget the "Make My Video" series, which gave us such uber 90s gems like this...

retroblast.bsky.social•146 days ago

This is why we need to preserve games, because no one would believe this actually exists otherwise.

summerlaverdure.bsky.social•146 days ago

theres a few modern ones out there

Her Story
Contradiction: Spot the Liar!
神都不良探 Underdog Detective

but honestly i think its cheaper to make 3D games than it is to go film video anymore, a weird reversal of the 90s

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