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Okay, full motion video games seem to get a bad rap by the majority of gamers. No matter what it is, when it was released or who starred in it, gamers like trash talking full motion video (FMV). It is one of those weird quirks of gaming. Back on the Sega CD, and on Macintosh/PC’s […]
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So Bad It’s Good – Dracula Unleashed Redeems Sega CD Full Motion Video
June 5th, 2016 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Comp, News, Sega 
Tags: dracula, Dracula Unleashed, fmv, full motion video, horror, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, sega cd 
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Sega Saturn Gets Lunacy – May 31st, 1997 – Today in Video Game History
May 30th, 2016 Carl Williams Ah, Full Motion Video (FMV) games. How the world loves to hate you. Lunacy was not your typical FMV game. The events here are played out with animated video rather than actors. Yeah, it is pre-rendered animation but it is EARLY rendered quality. While I remember back in the day wanting to play Lunacy when […]
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Posted in News, Saturn, Sega Tags: adventure, fmv, full motion video, Lunacy, sega, Torico No Comments »
4 Sega CD Full Motion Video Games Pushing the Envelope
May 21st, 2016 Carl Williams Full Motion Video (FMV) games are the bastard children of gaming. Gamers once were as in love with FMV games as the developers and publishers were. I myself remember the first time I saw Kingdoms, Night Trap and Cobra Command. I was dumbfounded and actually truly, deeply, wanted this new genre to be as cool […]
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Beast Within A Gabriel Knight Mystery Jumps to FMV – December 31st, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
December 31st, 2015 Carl Williams The Beast Within – A Gabriel Knight Mystery is a unique adventure for gamers to take on. What do you do when you are Sierra On-Line, a company known for pushing the envelope, and it is the dawn of a new age in computing? CD-ROM technology was picking up, becoming cheaper and more widespread with […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: Beast Within, dos, fmv, full motion video, Gabriel Knight, murder, mystery, Robert Holmes, Scarlet Furies, Sierra On-Line No Comments »
Bandit Gaming: Dragon’s Lair Laserdisc Ported to Commodore 64
February 24th, 2015 Carl Williams The Commodore 64 is a computer that is close to my heart as a gamer. I had other computers prior to it, I also had gaming consoles around but none were as cool as the C64. From playing Alternate Reality: The Dungeon to playing Temple of Apshai and Sword of Fargaol on it, I had […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: animation, arcade, Dirk the Daring, disney, Don Bluth, Dragon's Lair, full motion video, Laserdisc, Princess Daphne, retro, retro game, retrogaming, Sinclair, SInge, ZX81 1 Comment »
Bandit Gaming- Dragon’s Lair Running on Sinclair ZX81
February 15th, 2015 Carl Williams Alright, homebrew coders are getting scary with some of these projects they are creating. Sure, Jim Bagley may not be your normal definition of a homebrew coder since he used to work for Ocean Software. He got Dragon’s Lair running on a Sinclair ZX81 at the recent Retro Computer Museum Valentine’s Event 2015 show. How […]
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Game Hack: Zelda III Receives Update with FMV Cut Scenes and CD Quality Sound
January 4th, 2015 Carl Williams That headline is not misleading, the original Legend of Zelda III: A Link to the Past on Super Nintendo has received an update by fans that includes Full Motion Video (FMV) cutscenes and CD quality audio. This is all accomplished thanks to a hardware hacker named Byuu, who created BSNES and Higan and more importantly […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo Tags: BSNES, Byuu, cd-rom, fmv, full motion video, game hack, Higan, legend of zelda, link to the past, modification, MSU-1, nintendo, retro, retro game, retrocollect, retrogaming, SD2SNES, snes, super fx, video game, videogame, youtube, zelda, Zeldamotion 3 Comments »
New Game: Five Nights At Freddy’s Shows Full Motion Video is Not Dead
August 25th, 2014 Carl Williams First, you may be wondering why we are covering Five Nights at Freddy’s here on Retro Gaming Magazine. It is simple, Full Motion Video (FMV) games go way back in gaming, to the 80’s actually. Titles like Night Trap (reboot currently looking for funding on Kickstarter) and Sewer Shark were the norm back in the […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 3do, carl williams, Double Switch, Five Nights at Freddy's, fmv, full motion video, Ground Zero Texas, night trap, pc, Prize Fighter, retro, retro gaming magazine, rgm, sega cd, sega saturn, Sewer Shark, steam, windows 2 Comments »
Kickstarter: Night Trap Revamped, it is Full Motion Video and it is Pretty Cool, Seeks Funding
August 13th, 2014 Carl Williams Anyone that has been in gaming from the early days, or at least the late 80’s, will probably remember a time when gaming tried to go Hollywood. What this meant was, actors/actresses and real world stuff was used in more and more games. Not like Mortal Kombat but actual video footage was used to make […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Sega, Sony, Xbox Tags: carl williams, Digital Pictures, fmv, full motion video, hasbro, horror, kickstarter, nemo, night trap, retro, retro gaming magazine, ReVamped, rgm, sega cd, triverse 1 Comment »
Night Trap To Make FMV Miracle Return
May 21st, 2014 Carl Williams Anyone that was gaming in the early to mid 1990’s will probably remember the Full Motion Video (FMV) craze that hit gaming. It is funny though, this craze was much older than that, in fact by the time Night Trap saw release, it would almost have been able to be classified as “retro” according to […]
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Posted in Comp, Console, News, Sega Tags: carl williams, dana plato, fmv, full motion video, hasbro, nemo, night trap, retro, retro gaming magazine, retrogame, retrogaming, sega, sega cd, triverse 5 Comments »
