Back when I played games on my Atari 2600 and Sega Master System I thought to myself how great it would be that somewhere down the road things would improve so far in video games that one day I would be playing games with real actors in them and it would feel like a real movie experience.  I of course figured that it would be decades off and that it would not happen until we reached the 256 bit era.

So I did not stay with video games into the 16 bit era.  I have no idea what I was doing at the time.  Obviously nothing very memorable.  But an issue of my Sega Visions (did anyone get this wonderful little magazine?) came in and instead of pushing it off to the side like I had done with a number of my previous issues, I decided to glance through it and see what was new in games.  I want to say this was the holiday season 1993 issue.  So I am looking through it and it lists all the big games that you should have on your Christmas wish list for that year.  And low and behold what do I see, but a few titles that offer FMV!!!

Now of course all of these games work for the Sega CD.  But in order to get the Sega CD to work, you have to have a Sega Genesis.  So my parents are not rich so in order for me to play these wonderful new games of the future that are going to be the greatest thing that ever happened in gaming!!!  I have to ask for not one new gaming system but TWO!!!  Needless to say, I did not believe that I would be enjoying what the gaming gods had given us unfortunate soles.  But alas, my prayers were answered that Christmas and I did receive both systems of greatness.  I knew that I had gotten the systems before Christmas because I had gone into my parents closet and discovered them.  I am sure no one else has ever done that, right?

So what FMV games did I get for this wonderful new experience?  Well I think the better question is what games did I not get?  You can see in my profile all of the games that I ended up  getting that were from this era in gaming, but let me mention a few here.  The games that I completed.  Double Switch with Cory Haim and the fantastic R. Lee Ermey.  I actually liked this game.  Am I the only one?

Ground Zero Texas!!!  If I recall correctly this was a very well advertised game at the time.  It was really being pushed as one of the standout FMV games of the time. Was it, well were any of them really?  But I still enjoyed the game none the less.  Although there were a significant of repeat play sessions near the end to beat the game.

Sewer Shark - Another game that I enjoyed.  I have read a few comments over the years of those that hated this game.  Maybe it was just my mind frame at the time but I tended to enjoy all of the FMV games that I played and completed.

Wirehead - This game had a little bit of the James Bond films to it.  OK, real little.  I enjoyed my experience with it none the less.

Well this blog is starting to get a little long and there were a handful more that I played through and completed but I think I covered the ones that really interested me at the time.  There is one more that I did not complete but I do want to mention though. 

Night Trap - I bought this game only after it had been edited and re-released.  I started to play through the game but was unable to advance all the way through to the end (wish I had though).  What I remember the most about this game was the controversy that surrounded this game at the time and Dana Plato who gained fame from the t.v. show Different Stokes.

So was I the only one that played these games?  Actually a better question would be was I the only one that played these games and actually enjoyed them?