![]() Instead, all of the video was placed on a laserdisc, which was, for all intents and purposes, the forerunner of the DVD. In an intriguing example of history repeating itself, the first FMV game to take the world by storm was actually released in 1983, before most people even considered putting anything but music on a CD. The truth is that FMV games actually got their start almost a decade earlier. Once the novelty wore off though, people saw how boring and repetitive most of them were. ![]() After the start of the infamous hearings on video game violence in the mid-1990s, Night Trap, one of the flagship FMV games for the Sega CD, became a huge best-seller, and many other games were released in the wake of it. Often considered a blight upon the early era of CD-ROM games, and sometimes even blamed for the death of early consoles using the technology (Sega CD, anyone?), the truth is that while they are in most cases pretty forgettable, there is a reason that so many were made: people were excited by them at first. Full Motion Video Games loved by few, scorned by most.
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