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Ground Zero: Texas by Sony Imagesoft and Digital Pictures hit the Sega CD in November 1993. This was another Full Motion Video (FMV) game for the fledgling CD based Sega Genesis add-on. It is interesting to know who was involved with this game though. This was also the first time a video game had to […]
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Ground Zero: Texas Introduces Full Motion Video Aliens Shooting Action to Sega CD – November 27th, 1993 – Today in Video Game History
November 26th, 2020 
Carl Williams 
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Tags: 1993, Digital Pictures, Dwight H. Little, fmv, full motion video, Ground Zero Texas, Halloween 4, Invaders from Mars, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Marked for Death, night trap, November 27th, November 27th 1993, Return of Michael Myers, Sewer Shark, Sony Imagesoft 
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Lunar Eternal Blue Continues Epic Sega CD RPG – September 15th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
September 14th, 2020 Carl Williams Lunar Eternal Blue takes fans 1,000 years into the future from the events of the previous game. Hiro is the lead with Lucia, who is from the far-away Blue Star, joining him. Lucia must stop the evil Zophar from destroying the world. It is not going to be an easy adventure. Those that have completed […]
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Sega CD Classic Adventure Game Seeing Rerelease
February 20th, 2020 Carl Williams Quick, who remembers The Secret of Monkey Island? Specifically, the Sega CD version. For console gamers, like me, this was my first taste of Lucasfilm adventure games. While I had a computer, it was an old Color Computer II which was used to write short stories and the like. Gaming was not an option on […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Sega, Sega CD, Windows Tags: adventure, limited run games, lucasfilm, point and click, secret of monkey island 2 Comments »
New FPGA Based Sega Genesis Flash Cart Breaks New Ground
June 17th, 2019 Carl Williams The Sega Genesis is gaining in popularity again with Sega finally announcing the full lineup for their Sega Genesis Mini giving fans reason to be happy, and some mad. Outside the official products realm we have things like the MegaSD, a new Sega Genesis FPGA based flash cart that is breaking new ground.
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Double Switch 25th Anniversary Edition Release Date Announced, Yes it is a Limited Run Games Release
October 20th, 2018 Carl Williams If you are a gamer from back in the late 1980’s then you probably remember the Full Motion Video (FMV) craze that was picking up steam around then. While never really taking off on the Turbo Grafx-16 CD-ROM add-on, other than Sherlock Holmes there was not much here, FMV did flourish on personal computers and […]
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Mortal Kombat Murders Competition on Sega CD – May 26th, 1994 – Today in History
May 26th, 2018 Carl Williams Mortal Kombat was the one title that did something no other title in history could. It forced Nintendo to change their staunch censoring policy. Prior to Mortal Kombat appearing on the Super Nintendo it was almost unheard of to see blood and guts in a game on a Nintendo platform. Nintendo even censored the Game […]
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Why Full Motion Video Was Horrible on Sega CD
February 3rd, 2018 Carl Williams Looking back today Full Motion Video games on the Sega CD are quite painful to play. Not just because most are rather horrible, and I like the genre so that is saying something, but because of the video quality. Some titles were uglier than others and this was one of the sticking points for gamers. […]
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Sonic CD Joins Sega Forever on Mobile
February 3rd, 2018 Carl Williams Sega is pushing their retro games with this Sega Forever project over on mobile platforms. On one hand it is awesome because you can play the full game with intermittent advertising pop up (free to play basically) or you can pay a one-time fee to remove the ads. On the other, it is kind of […]
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Five Retro Full Motion Video Games that Push the Genre
January 20th, 2018 Carl Williams Full Motion Video was supposed to be the revolutionary genre of the, then, incoming CD-ROM world. I am talking about the 80’s and early 90’s of gaming. A time when Sega fought Nintendo’s iron grip on gaming with innovative ideas, technologies and knew how to take a freaking chance. Maybe had they been so hard […]
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Mansion of Hidden Souls Opens for Business on Sega CD – December 9th, 1993 – Today in Video Game History
December 9th, 2016 Carl Williams The Mansion of Hidden Souls on the Sega CD continues the tradition of horror full motion video games. Can you solve the mystery or will you forever be a new resident of the mansion?
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