[MisterTea]

> I played Sewer Shark on the Sega CD

six - six - niner - six ugh, that game kinda sucked. Never hit that million pounds of tube steak high score.

What a weird time for gaming. FMV games were something that looked like the future to a little kid but once you played them they were awful. The video padded out boring interactive game play like shooting the rats in Sewer Shark or the shooting galleries of Ground Zero: Texas. I remember Night Trap being highly controversial at the time for sexual an violence themes and I only knew one kid who had it and his mother threw the game out so I never got to play it.

[autoexec]

> FMV games were something that looked like the future to a little kid but once you played them they were awful.

I still have a certain amount of love for the genre and I'm secretly hoping they make a comeback someday without many of the limitations they had at the time.

Phantasmagoria was a gem if you've never tried it. Night Trap is just awkward to play, and didn't deserve the moral panic, but at least those kids can emulate it now. You'd be better off just watching it on youtube though.

[throwway120385]

Under a Killing Moon and The Pandora Directive were really goofy but kinda fun adventure games.

[autoexec]

Both on GOG too! I'll have to check them out

[dreadlordbone]

Obduction is a newer Myst-Like with some of the old FMV trimmings

[jbm]

> FMV games were something that looked like the future to a little kid but once you played them they were awful.

I still think Wing Commander 3 was an amazing game, to this day. (The 10 minute waits to launch a mission on my Pentium was ridiculous though)