That's one terrible Sheriff. Bet if he went to a crime scene where somebody was shot in the head, he would say "You can't live without a brain, son, nothin' unnatural about that" or any other major organ that was missing. Heck, maybe that is a great defense in a murder case, claim it was natural causes and explain everything that way.
Even with the evidence it's hard to explain. Just look at something like Earthworm Jim... sure you can show that it actually existed, but can you explain how and why?
The fact that Andy got capture footage of all seven of these implies that either they're inexplicably all still for sale or child!Andy owned a lot of FMV games.
"American Laser Games... who say their name like they're hissing it into your ear as they press a pillow over your face" "Boring minigames where you move with all the urgency of a tectonic plate" Dang, I love the analogies on oxbox
Andy, think about this for a moment. If Supreme Warrior made you one of the cool kung-fu gangsters, you'd have to fight the bland guy whose fighting style is based on randomly flailing his limbs. Does that sound fun to you?
I have to give them credit for trying to make both a first person, and FMV fighting game :D I mean I don't think the result was good, but it was ambitious.
@@timothymclean Yeah look at FFX-2's opener. In the Japanese version, Yuna?'s performance at the beginning was audio sung by Japanese pop-star Koda Kumi, AND the dance routine was motion capture of Koda Kumi dancing. Nowadays you can mo-cap actors doing stuff and make it look sci-fi and cool with CGI afterwards. English: th-cam.com/video/g1FkhBGH1io/w-d-xo.html Japanese: th-cam.com/video/qNk7qXG0Qjk/w-d-xo.html
Contradiction and The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker are both new FMV games that are well worth playing. The nice thing about the studio that made them is that they realize there is an inherent amount of cheesiness to FMV games and they lean into it. I had a blast playing both of them. If you want to check them out, Jesse Cox has a playthrough for each of them on his channel.
I'm definitely including the "you can't live without a spinal cord" line in my Dark Heresy (warhammer 40k DnD) campaign, curious to see how the players will react :D
The Adeptus Mechanicus would like to disagree with that statement. They have empirical proof that many acolytes have survived similar procedures with minimal mechanical enhancement. Servators are a perfect example.
Harvester: If David Lynch took a blow to the head and decided to make a Full Motion Video Game. Still got love the Sheriff who seems to really like Pie.
Nick M-S It does look like it would be very funny though especially that whole "He died of natural causes". Also I'm a fan of 50s Suburbia horror/ thrillers no matter how stupid so I should watch a play through at some point.
It's a smart game with a smart message. Maybe it should have been made another way, but Andy fail to talk about the endoctrinement of the main character/the player to become a serial killer. The ending only reflect that.
There are already hundreds of hours of video of them lying around, I'm sure a suitably dedicated fan could whip something up. After all, it's not like the plot or gameplay mechanics have to have that much work put into them for an FMV game.
It was because the machinery had become more cool looking and less... grimy. I blame Caterpillar's insistence on painting everything bright yellow. It makes it look like playground equipment :p I meant, you CAN paint things the color of mud and rust if you want to... Fresh paint doesn't need to look like a toy car. Realistically it's a safety thing to make the machinery easier to see, but still...
I gotta say, think this was the funniest fucking OXbox video I've seen. The entire thing was absolute comedy gold. Granted some of that is the source material, but some of it was Andy really being on form, with lines like "I can't stress enough how bizarre Harvester is...get answers from the town's various weirdos, by solving puzzles that could charitably be described as "obtuse," and accurately be described as"batsh*t f**king dream logic." That is gold, my friends.
Honestly I think the video capture of the "kid" operating the machines is actually the woman from the beginning but in tight blue-jeans and baggy gloves. I mean, I've seen those things up close. The implied scale comes from a relatively small occupant of the vehicle and the fact the gloves are a size too big. The shifting levers? yeah those really do have ~3-inch ball on them.
Reminds me of Eddie Valiant trying to kill the judge in "who framed roger rabbit." It was a very disturbing scene to watch as a kid. He absolutely rolled over the guy, crushing him. They didn't realize until afterward that the judge was a toon and couldn't die of anything normal.
The mom character in harvester said that watching violence makes you violent. Jane Douglas and her extensive education describes this theory as a "load of b*llocks". I agree with Jane.
1996 had The Vampire Diaries from Her Interactive, which was so odd that I'm not entirely sure I didn't hallucinate it. Notable for some very 90s hair.
I remember playing Gabriel Knight II: The Beast Within and I can safely say I learned more about Richard Wagner & King Ludwig the Second, pretending to be a Schattenjager then I ever did in history class! Well edumacated!
"Tell me, how do you feel about cremation?!" and "How about some cookies? There's plenty of rejects in the trash." Those two lines made me stop and think "Huh...wow okay. Rude."
Under construction is a interactive lesson geared towards teaching kids of mafia families apparently. (Mafia for beginners) And one very good reason why TIP was cancelled was due to Hogan had no desire for retuning because he wanted to return to wrestling.
Damn, I remember as a kid playing the first game *The 7th Guest* and gave up frustrated at the virus mini-game, and never got pass that to completion. I noticed just how unfair the game was for the player who made the first or second move (I can't remember which); the AI gets handed a huge advantage that way due to the nature of the game.
My favourite from this period was Darkseed. A game in which you played a horror writer in a haunted mansion with a parallel universe. All the artwork was based on H R Giger (of Alien fame). Its weird, crazy and if I remember rightly a reet good music score
One of my favorite weird FMV games is TLC: Tender Loving Care, which is this bizarre affair about how this woman goes crazy after losing her kid in a car accident and her husband hires a live-in psychologist to try and help her. It's more of an interactive story than a game; the gameplay is mostly you answering psychology questions during interludes to affect what happens next.
The future we dreamed about in the 90's was better then the future we got ... no time travel, no aliens, no gloomy neon-lighted city constantly in rain :P
9:12 “That’s bullshit mom.” He’s actually right but the writers of this story tried to make him seem like he had just gone crazy because this is a game from the 90s and no one actually knew anything. People don’t just casually lose their minds. It takes extreme mental stress. If a video game was capable of making you lose your mind, playing it would literally feel like torture.
I spaced out during the "Double Switch" segment and couldn't help but notice the Spooky Rice music during the segment 👻 I'm sure it's just TH-cam music, but it caught my attention lol
All those Tom Zito games are still a guilty pleasure to me nowdays. It's a mixed bag of quality, it's totally 90's but somehow it does work, sometimes. The American Lasergames on Philips CD-I (with a digital video cartridge) where wonderful arcade perfect versions, a thing the other cd based system could not do yet. Thunder in Paradise might still be the best example of what could be done with this kind of media, but even 12 year old me had enough of it after renting the game for a weekend.
Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster. Tim Curry definitely stands out, especially with his “He’s alive! Alive!” bit. Made my own desktop theme with sounds for that game. And that’s when I learned about Rocky Horror Picture Show too.
I'd love to see someone make an FMV game now. It would basically be an interactive movie and with many games taking a less action filled and more story driven direction these days it could probably work. Basically something like bandersnatch but first person (ooh maybe in VR).
My friend had an FMV game in the mid-90s on his Mac called Inbred with Rednex. From what I remember, you lived on a farm with Rednex, the "band" responsible for Cotton Eyed Joe, and had to do tasks for them. It was mental, but you did get to do a mine cart chase at the end for some reason.
Did you say "Double switch" orrrrr Home alone meets FNAF Aka Home alone with Freddie 😁 actually sounds like an awesome horror sitcom. Why wasnt there more horror sitcoms 🤔
@@JachAnen in the 90s you had to have the ie ending or it wouldn't appeal who wants to see freddy.....fucking suit. I wanna see freddieeeeeeeeeeee the rad one lol
@@JachAnen I mean Adam's family is all we got. But I feel like there should be a legit Ooooo Serial Killer battle royal, and instead of ppl actually fearing for there lives they are actually truthful and funny trying to escape like they really could care of life. Jt would take specifics but I'd be happy to watch dark humor all day for 19 min plus ads Maybe on a Tuesday primetime slot
@@dontmindme5879 I'd count Ash vs. Evil Dead. Not a sitcom, but good enough to fill that void. But I don't think they know how to do it without rebooting something old like that, nobody would invest in something new like it.
I still have a soft spot for that execrable "Marky Mark: Make My Video" thing for Sega CD. Just about worth it alone for the clip of him going "That video was phat."
Double switch is amazing, with Corey hame being the most 90s hacker in existence while 30 aliens pretending to do "human things" while some xcom units disguised as gangsters try and elimage the treat
I was gonna bring up Roundabout, except it actually WAS made just a few years back. You drive an automatically rotating taxi around obstacle courses destroying property and squishing pedestrians mindlessly, and whenever you pick someone up (or there's story development) there's a FMV of the protagonist interacting with them.
My counterpoint to your query (the guy "using the fire escape" during Who Shot Johnny Rock?), Andy, is that when have you *ever* seen someone using a fire escape as an exit (or, in this case, an entrance...the guy was going upwards) just as a general method? Hell, it felt wrong clambering around on the fire escape in Deja Vu (as you couldn't travel the interior of the building for some unexplained reason)...nobody on a fire escape is up to any good.
How could you not mention the rest of the cast in Double Switch? Not only did you have Corey Haim, you had Debbie Harry and R. Lee Ermey in there as well.
I played the ever loving heck out of Supreme Warrior back in the day. I had it on the Mac which didn't exactly have much in the way of games beyond a T rating let alone an M one at the time. It was also the first "M" rated game I ever purchased; well before I was the appropriate age to be playing such a game. On the Easy and Normal levels you can play with indicators which show you which type of punch and kick to use at each time. Despite being able to block left, in front of you and to the right, as long as you time your block, you'll usually get it. Sometimes you could even deflect the attack and deal damage back to the opponent. On the Hard difficulty, it's pretty much broken since even if you remember frame for frame when you were able to hit the enemy in the lower difficulties, you won't necessarily hit them this time around. You can replay the game over and over again, getting more HP, Chi and special attacks to the point where you don't even have to bother to block. This is the only way I was able to beat it on hard; with so much HP and using certain special attacks, my health regenerated faster than the damage they dished out. It tried to ape from Mortal Kombat with finishing moves and what I guess I would classify as humiliations as one scenario involved turning an opponent into a baby (well really an adult in a diaper who throws his bottle at you), making one of the female opponent's clothes disappear, and dumping some slime onto the Final Boss. What made these kind of pointless though is you can trigger them at any point in the fight so while the humiliation played out, their health would regenerate. Eventually Duke Nukem 3D came out for the Mac and I didn't have to play Supreme Warrior anymore.
Bizarre but surprisingly fun: Sewershark for Sega cd. Absolutely loved that game! No room for mistakes and the villian has weird escapades on the beach for... Reasons?
Bridging the FMV game era with today's Bandersnatch 'interactive movie' experiments is 2007's Return to House on Haunted Hill. It's a straight-to-DVD sequel to the 1999 remake of House on Haunted Hill, in which a viewer can control character decisions and camera angles using DVD interactivity. IT'S AN FMV GAME!
I’ve been trying to find this one for a while now but what’s the FMV where the family loses their baby child and the house sitter pretends to be taking care of the imaginary baby even though it doesn’t exist? I think that’s the premise
The best part of Supreme Warrior was that winning the fight was literally doing the correct sequence. The fights weren't dynamic and didn't involve reaction or strategy. Magazines at the time just printed out what buttons to push in what order. It was hilarious.
"You can't live without a spine, son, nothin' unnatural about that"
Best line of game dialogue ever recorded.
"That bulls**t mom"
I can't believe that line isn't from Mortal Kombat.
@@larsulrik7568 THE best quote, period
That's one terrible Sheriff. Bet if he went to a crime scene where somebody was shot in the head, he would say "You can't live without a brain, son, nothin' unnatural about that" or any other major organ that was missing. Heck, maybe that is a great defense in a murder case, claim it was natural causes and explain everything that way.
I mean I can't argue with that.
Messing with the machines on purpose was the 90s version of deliberately failing a QTE to see what will happen
Which I still do to this day
if it was made today it WOULD have QTE's just because of realism. :p
All that happens is Ryo gets hit in the face witt soccer ball.
Ah the 90's. An era of history that nobody would believe if you explained it to them without extensive evidence.
@Caitlin RC The uncanny decade.
Even with the evidence it's hard to explain. Just look at something like Earthworm Jim... sure you can show that it actually existed, but can you explain how and why?
@@kmac169 If you can... "Well done."
I lived through the 90s and I'm still not sure I believe it.
Caitlin RC I think the second summer of love caused everyone to briefly go insane.
Just watch Shamen's Comin On for example.
The fact that Andy got capture footage of all seven of these implies that either they're inexplicably all still for sale or child!Andy owned a lot of FMV games.
@@bluebelle8823 Oooor,he still plays them secretly😁
We all have our crosses to bare😊
I am going with a guess and say some were Jules
Wrong TH-cam channel 😀
@@verticalflats2816 Is that your one per list? 😖
Or they just found footage somewhere.
"Kids on Site" = "Codename 47: The Early Years."
Good work 47.
@@scottylewis8124now, find an exit
"American Laser Games... who say their name like they're hissing it into your ear as they press a pillow over your face"
"Boring minigames where you move with all the urgency of a tectonic plate"
Dang, I love the analogies on oxbox
Andy, think about this for a moment. If Supreme Warrior made you one of the cool kung-fu gangsters, you'd have to fight the bland guy whose fighting style is based on randomly flailing his limbs. Does that sound fun to you?
I have to give them credit for trying to make both a first person, and FMV fighting game :D I mean I don't think the result was good, but it was ambitious.
Honestly, yes...
Don't forget the rubber sticks!
"Chuck him into the soup!"
That might be the best line I've ever heard in anything. So menacing.
SOUP'S ON!! 💀
I thought he said "Talk about the soup!" as in he wanted everyone to keep talking about him. For some reason that made more sense to me.
"That's enough out of you."
Andy clapping back at it was incredible.
"Once you nail an alien..." Oh you mean hunt an alien
Aliens enjoy 'hot coffee' too...
I might've been slightly disappointed upon realizing it didn't mean what I thought it meant.
@@kcollier2192 was not expecting a Luke Cage reference today... thanks for that!
Commander Shepherd would have to agree with the original statement.
Who doesn't want to nail an alien? Lois Lane does all the time.
The main thing I remember Harvester for is the following piece of dialogue
"Is that what I think it is?"
"Yup, that's a spinal cord alright..."
"You were always such a kidder Steve."
*fight to the death*
Rando woman: *clears throath* ''Excuse me, I feel it's an appropriate time to remind you that it is *all* up to you...proceed.''
Just like in real life...
_Leslie Nelson enters cockpit_
"I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you."
-The movie Airplane
Awwww. How could you forget the best line in the entire movie! O.o
"Now to shoot the four clues" I didn't know Mike was also a detective
Somehow FMV games simultaneously capture the very best and the very worst of the 90s.
I think they're due a comeback.
On one hand, modern technology could make FMV games awesome. On the other hand, modern technology has made FMV games obsolete.
@@timothymclean I would give my left kidney to play a modern remake of Harvester. That shit is 3 tons of bonkers.
Black Mirror - Bander snatch is essentially a modern age FMV game / movie, Late Shift and The Bunker are FMV games available for the Xbox One
@@timothymclean Yeah look at FFX-2's opener. In the Japanese version, Yuna?'s performance at the beginning was audio sung by Japanese pop-star Koda Kumi, AND the dance routine was motion capture of Koda Kumi dancing. Nowadays you can mo-cap actors doing stuff and make it look sci-fi and cool with CGI afterwards.
English: th-cam.com/video/g1FkhBGH1io/w-d-xo.html
Japanese: th-cam.com/video/qNk7qXG0Qjk/w-d-xo.html
Contradiction and The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker are both new FMV games that are well worth playing. The nice thing about the studio that made them is that they realize there is an inherent amount of cheesiness to FMV games and they lean into it. I had a blast playing both of them. If you want to check them out, Jesse Cox has a playthrough for each of them on his channel.
Help, ever since I watched this video a disembodied voice keeps whispering "American Laser Games" in my ear whenever I turn the lights off.
Just look on the bright side, an extra pillow is rarely a bad thing.....
“Aaammeerriccaann Laaasseerr Gammmeesss”
I'm definitely including the "you can't live without a spinal cord" line in my Dark Heresy (warhammer 40k DnD) campaign, curious to see how the players will react :D
Wayhay, shouts to dark heresy man, heavy stubber guardsman for the win.
Which space marines legion would say that I think world eaters
The Adeptus Mechanicus would like to disagree with that statement. They have empirical proof that many acolytes have survived similar procedures with minimal mechanical enhancement. Servators are a perfect example.
@@wafflehammer4725 Psykers man, always go for the psyker. If you're going down, *everything* comes down with you :D
@@Chris_Sizemore I stand corrected. well, archo-flagelation time, yay !
Andy: You can’t solve every problem by shooting them.
Mike: Are you sure about that?
I mean, some problems you solve by exploding them.
Harvester: If David Lynch took a blow to the head and decided to make a Full Motion Video Game. Still got love the Sheriff who seems to really like Pie.
I watched a play through of Harvester by RPGMinx it was one of the strangest things I’ve seen in a long time.
Nick M-S It does look like it would be very funny though especially that whole "He died of natural causes".
Also I'm a fan of 50s Suburbia horror/ thrillers no matter how stupid so I should watch a play through at some point.
It's a smart game with a smart message. Maybe it should have been made another way, but Andy fail to talk about the endoctrinement of the main character/the player to become a serial killer. The ending only reflect that.
I love FMV games. They are so weird and interesting and usually campy in an movie kind of way. It’s cool that people still make FMV games today
When are we getting the Outside Xbox/Xtra FMV game?
I'm still waiting for a Outside Xbox vs. Playstation Access, meet video and battle videos.
There are already hundreds of hours of video of them lying around, I'm sure a suitably dedicated fan could whip something up. After all, it's not like the plot or gameplay mechanics have to have that much work put into them for an FMV game.
Wow I need that now!
In the 90s, it seemed there was a cultural perception of construction equipment as fun and quirky rather than 18 ton steel single purpose gods.
_A massive steel leviathan with blades covered in gore!_
It was because the machinery had become more cool looking and less... grimy. I blame Caterpillar's insistence on painting everything bright yellow. It makes it look like playground equipment :p I meant, you CAN paint things the color of mud and rust if you want to... Fresh paint doesn't need to look like a toy car.
Realistically it's a safety thing to make the machinery easier to see, but still...
Great now I'm off to watch the rifftrax of "Danger Keep Out! " for the 40th time.
@@moosemaimer And now I have that song stuck in my head again. Thanks!
@@marhawkman303 It was been a bad day at the construction site. 3 of the workers and the foreman had walked face first into the bulldozer.
4:20 "Remember! It's all up to you!"
You- *Screams in pain* *falls down and dies immediately*
10 minutes before you get to fight anyone? Still sooner than Metal Gear Solid.
@5:50 is that Debbie Harry?
OMG! that IS Debbie Harry!
Dude that Cleopatra-looking woman in Double Switch is DEBBIE HARRY! You gotta mention stuff like that!
I noticed her too. Surprised they missed it.
didn’t miss it, just wasn’t relevant to what i was talking about
@@outsidexbox Boooo. Boo to flippant replies. Could have made a joke or pretended not to realise and said well done for noticing.
@@greenhowie For any of the actors that are still around, not mentioning them might be doing them a favor for some of these lol.
"I'm wearing ear protection and I can't hear a thing" When I worked at a factory that was my catchphrase.
"Chuck him into the soup!" has to be one of the single best lines of dialogue ever put to film! Don't @ me.
Fun fact: The 8 FMV games video was the first oxbox video I ever saw. Stumbled across during a YT rec binge and I've loved the channel ever since. 💗
2:58 probably the only kong fu gang in the history of interactive cinema if you think about it.
Does the Axe Gang from Kung Fu Hustle count?
@@matwang1 Nah, Kung Fu Hustle wasn't interactive. But it is a great movie.
I gotta say, think this was the funniest fucking OXbox video I've seen. The entire thing was absolute comedy gold. Granted some of that is the source material, but some of it was Andy really being on form, with lines like "I can't stress enough how bizarre Harvester is...get answers from the town's various weirdos, by solving puzzles that could charitably be described as "obtuse," and accurately be described as"batsh*t f**king dream logic." That is gold, my friends.
1:28 reminds me of that steamroller scene in one of the Austin Powers movies...
Honestly I think the video capture of the "kid" operating the machines is actually the woman from the beginning but in tight blue-jeans and baggy gloves. I mean, I've seen those things up close. The implied scale comes from a relatively small occupant of the vehicle and the fact the gloves are a size too big. The shifting levers? yeah those really do have ~3-inch ball on them.
Reminds me of Eddie Valiant trying to kill the judge in "who framed roger rabbit." It was a very disturbing scene to watch as a kid. He absolutely rolled over the guy, crushing him. They didn't realize until afterward that the judge was a toon and couldn't die of anything normal.
@@annana6098 When I was a kid, the Judge scared me so badly at the end, I couldn't watch that movie for years.
8:05 how is this not a meme
Lol
Give bad news followed by....I will have that pie
"Well it turns out you have super cancer. You've got about a week to live. I think I WILL have some more pie!
Or a gif! 🤣👍🏻
"I'm sorry Sandy, but Jess is leaving you... for me"
ithinkiwillhavesomemorepie.gif
The mom character in harvester said that watching violence makes you violent. Jane Douglas and her extensive education describes this theory as a "load of b*llocks".
I agree with Jane.
"That's bollocks, Mom."
If that were the case south korea and japan would be actual war zones!
Shit input equals shit output though. The theory isn’t as farfetched as you want it to be.
I'm pretty darn sure that the Cleopatra actor in double switch was Debbie Harry!!
You are correct!
1996 had The Vampire Diaries from Her Interactive, which was so odd that I'm not entirely sure I didn't hallucinate it. Notable for some very 90s hair.
They made stuff besides Nancy Drew?
Just looked it up. Blondie's Deborah Harry was in Double Switch.
Wait, Double Switch also starred Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry?! Buried the lede on that one, Andy.
Damn he really dropped the ball on that
Omg I loved Harvester. What a piece of work it was. I haven't thought about it in 20 years.
And now I'm gonna dream about it... at best.
Changed playback from 720 to 240 the fmv bits look better now lol
My favorite moment in this whole thing was Andy: "Ha. This can't be right. It looks like I've written 'Soup Monster,' but obviously--"
Well, after the book monster and all the other weird horrors they've dealt with, "soup monster" is rather believable...
I remember playing Gabriel Knight II: The Beast Within and I can safely say I learned more about Richard Wagner & King Ludwig the Second, pretending to be a Schattenjager then I ever did in history class!
Well edumacated!
I based my entire 6th grade history report on New Orleans from playing Gabriel Knight 1.
90's were entirely bizarre, how I know? I was there!!
"Chuck him into the soup"
The most terrifying game ending ever imagined
"Tell me, how do you feel about cremation?!" and "How about some cookies? There's plenty of rejects in the trash." Those two lines made me stop and think "Huh...wow okay. Rude."
It wasn’t full FMV, but the scenes between stages in MegaRace were always entertaining with your host “Lance Boyle”.
Never clicked so fast, I LOVE FMV games! Added to the fact it's OxBox in the video.... Perfection **mwah**
Weird before the video started I was greeted to a PS ad lol
That Kung Fu FMV looked awesome!.......well the opening did
Yeah, were there any fmv action games that played well?
"You're such a kidder, Steve."
Under construction is a interactive lesson geared towards teaching kids of mafia families apparently.
(Mafia for beginners)
And one very good reason why TIP was cancelled was due to Hogan had no desire for retuning because he wanted to return to wrestling.
Damn, I remember as a kid playing the first game *The 7th Guest* and gave up frustrated at the virus mini-game, and never got pass that to completion. I noticed just how unfair the game was for the player who made the first or second move (I can't remember which); the AI gets handed a huge advantage that way due to the nature of the game.
Apart from all my nightmares about Night Yuppies crouched on my bed whispering “American Laser Games”, FMV was a fun time in video gaming for me.
Kinda makes you wonder why people are so nostalgic about the 90s it was a weird time, no matter how RADICAL!!! it was.
same thing with the 80s
My favourite from this period was Darkseed. A game in which you played a horror writer in a haunted mansion with a parallel universe. All the artwork was based on H R Giger (of Alien fame). Its weird, crazy and if I remember rightly a reet good music score
can we just get a feature where andy plays a different fmv game each week?
I think this might must be the best video list that Outsidexbox has ever put together.
8:30 had to think of connor4real going : DAMN, the whole thing was just a virtual reality experience"
One of my favorite weird FMV games is TLC: Tender Loving Care, which is this bizarre affair about how this woman goes crazy after losing her kid in a car accident and her husband hires a live-in psychologist to try and help her. It's more of an interactive story than a game; the gameplay is mostly you answering psychology questions during interludes to affect what happens next.
I've been meaning to watch a full playthrough of that sometime. Cool to see someone else know about it!
Oh man, TLC is great! I still have my copy! 😊
Loved the '90s. Best time to be alive. Now it's the 21st Century. The future sucks!
The future we dreamed about in the 90's was better then the future we got ... no time travel, no aliens, no gloomy neon-lighted city constantly in rain :P
@@kallasantysanty6092
Yeah, and what did we get?.... Antifa. We're living in a dystopian future, right now!
@@NGMonocrom But not the cool and fun dystopian future, just a bleak and depresing one.
@@kallasantysanty6092
Yup! Ours' is terrible! I'd rather have the dystopia portrayed in the original _"BladeRunner"_ than the one we got stuck with.
@@NGMonocrom Hell, we don't even have cyborgs like portrayed in Metal Gear Reveangeance.
9:12 “That’s bullshit mom.” He’s actually right but the writers of this story tried to make him seem like he had just gone crazy because this is a game from the 90s and no one actually knew anything. People don’t just casually lose their minds. It takes extreme mental stress. If a video game was capable of making you lose your mind, playing it would literally feel like torture.
You know the video is going to be good when all the games are in a reduced resolution.
CD-ROM games had enough memory to store video, but enough to store video that didn't look like you were watching it through a dirty screen door.
"Hellooo Chuck!" and "Soup's on!" might have just made their way into my daily vernacular, thanks for that.
I spaced out during the "Double Switch" segment and couldn't help but notice the Spooky Rice music during the segment 👻 I'm sure it's just TH-cam music, but it caught my attention lol
I honestly miss cheesy FMV games. My 3 favorites were Mad Dog McCree, Who Shot Johnny Rock, and Star Wars Rebel Assult 2. Loved them!
4:20 "Remember, it's all in the mind!"
Timestamp makes sense.
All those Tom Zito games are still a guilty pleasure to me nowdays.
It's a mixed bag of quality, it's totally 90's but somehow it does work, sometimes.
The American Lasergames on Philips CD-I (with a digital video cartridge) where wonderful arcade perfect versions, a thing the other cd based system could not do yet.
Thunder in Paradise might still be the best example of what could be done with this kind of media, but even 12 year old me had enough of it after renting the game for a weekend.
Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster. Tim Curry definitely stands out, especially with his “He’s alive! Alive!” bit. Made my own desktop theme with sounds for that game. And that’s when I learned about Rocky Horror Picture Show too.
"Chuck'em into the soup." XD I about fell over.
I'd love to see someone make an FMV game now. It would basically be an interactive movie and with many games taking a less action filled and more story driven direction these days it could probably work. Basically something like bandersnatch but first person (ooh maybe in VR).
My friend had an FMV game in the mid-90s on his Mac called Inbred with Rednex. From what I remember, you lived on a farm with Rednex, the "band" responsible for Cotton Eyed Joe, and had to do tasks for them. It was mental, but you did get to do a mine cart chase at the end for some reason.
Did you say "Double switch" orrrrr Home alone meets FNAF
Aka
Home alone with Freddie 😁 actually sounds like an awesome horror sitcom.
Why wasnt there more horror sitcoms 🤔
Freddy*
I don't know, Elm Str. and Chucky sure would have inspired one.
@@JachAnen in the 90s you had to have the ie ending or it wouldn't appeal who wants to see freddy.....fucking suit. I wanna see freddieeeeeeeeeeee the rad one lol
@@JachAnen I mean Adam's family is all we got. But I feel like there should be a legit
Ooooo Serial Killer battle royal, and instead of ppl actually fearing for there lives they are actually truthful and funny trying to escape like they really could care of life. Jt would take specifics but I'd be happy to watch dark humor all day for 19 min plus ads
Maybe on a Tuesday primetime slot
@@dontmindme5879 I'd count Ash vs. Evil Dead. Not a sitcom, but good enough to fill that void. But I don't think they know how to do it without rebooting something old like that, nobody would invest in something new like it.
Video idea: The 0 FMV Games That Actually Would Get Made Today.
Need for Speed (2015) would like to have a word with you
The sheer ridiculousness of these games had me cracking up. Great video, OxBoxtra!
“How about some cookies? There’s plenty of rejects in the trash.”
I had Kids on Site for the PC as a kid, I completely forgot about it and all the ridiculousness it included, thanks for the memories!
Anybody else binge-watching this channel on lockdown?
I still have a soft spot for that execrable "Marky Mark: Make My Video" thing for Sega CD. Just about worth it alone for the clip of him going "That video was phat."
One FMV game that was amazing was Quantum Gate, and it's sequel Vortex. They were both very well put together, and had an intriguing story line.
Double switch is amazing, with Corey hame being the most 90s hacker in existence while 30 aliens pretending to do "human things" while some xcom units disguised as gangsters try and elimage the treat
Andy's near bottomless knowledge of mostly terrible, always weird 90's games is one of my favourite things about this chanel.
I was gonna bring up Roundabout, except it actually WAS made just a few years back. You drive an automatically rotating taxi around obstacle courses destroying property and squishing pedestrians mindlessly, and whenever you pick someone up (or there's story development) there's a FMV of the protagonist interacting with them.
Andy insults are devastatingly cruel, and I love it.
My counterpoint to your query (the guy "using the fire escape" during Who Shot Johnny Rock?), Andy, is that when have you *ever* seen someone using a fire escape as an exit (or, in this case, an entrance...the guy was going upwards) just as a general method? Hell, it felt wrong clambering around on the fire escape in Deja Vu (as you couldn't travel the interior of the building for some unexplained reason)...nobody on a fire escape is up to any good.
Thunder in Paradise was basically Knightboat from that one episode of the Simpsons, and yes... There was ALWAYS a canal.
Anyone remember Airwolf, basically Knight Helicopter
Or street hawk basically Knight Motorbike.
Did Jane develop and make Harvester by any chance? I always knew she had prodigious talent as a child.
How could you not mention the rest of the cast in Double Switch? Not only did you have Corey Haim, you had Debbie Harry and R. Lee Ermey in there as well.
I played the ever loving heck out of Supreme Warrior back in the day. I had it on the Mac which didn't exactly have much in the way of games beyond a T rating let alone an M one at the time. It was also the first "M" rated game I ever purchased; well before I was the appropriate age to be playing such a game.
On the Easy and Normal levels you can play with indicators which show you which type of punch and kick to use at each time. Despite being able to block left, in front of you and to the right, as long as you time your block, you'll usually get it. Sometimes you could even deflect the attack and deal damage back to the opponent.
On the Hard difficulty, it's pretty much broken since even if you remember frame for frame when you were able to hit the enemy in the lower difficulties, you won't necessarily hit them this time around.
You can replay the game over and over again, getting more HP, Chi and special attacks to the point where you don't even have to bother to block. This is the only way I was able to beat it on hard; with so much HP and using certain special attacks, my health regenerated faster than the damage they dished out.
It tried to ape from Mortal Kombat with finishing moves and what I guess I would classify as humiliations as one scenario involved turning an opponent into a baby (well really an adult in a diaper who throws his bottle at you), making one of the female opponent's clothes disappear, and dumping some slime onto the Final Boss. What made these kind of pointless though is you can trigger them at any point in the fight so while the humiliation played out, their health would regenerate.
Eventually Duke Nukem 3D came out for the Mac and I didn't have to play Supreme Warrior anymore.
Truly the golden age of gaming! Good ol' days indeed! Man this video was hilarious.
Bizarre but surprisingly fun: Sewershark for Sega cd. Absolutely loved that game! No room for mistakes and the villian has weird escapades on the beach for... Reasons?
Surprisingly relevant with Netflix doing this kind of thing now.
Thunder in Paradise was awesome. You take that back!
...It was also horribly cheesy, but then so were all the super-vehicle shows.
2:37 I dont know why I enjoy this one so much, maybe because it reminds me of that one scene in Indigo Prophecy? Where they go all DBz?
Bridging the FMV game era with today's Bandersnatch 'interactive movie' experiments is 2007's Return to House on Haunted Hill. It's a straight-to-DVD sequel to the 1999 remake of House on Haunted Hill, in which a viewer can control character decisions and camera angles using DVD interactivity. IT'S AN FMV GAME!
Some of those look like fun. I would love to play Harvester
LAst time I checked it was 5.99 on steam. great game. You were always a kidder Casey!
@@TheDrFunkenstein I was always a kidder?
A lets play of any of these would be amazing
sitting here in 2019 thinking about all the oddly enjoyable fun stabbing people is in VR
Seems harvester was just ahead of its time
I don't know what's weirder in retrospect, that these games were made or that I thought this kind of technology was absolutely mind blowing as a kid.
The X-Files Game was pretty fun & needs to be remastered.
Oh wow. I remember that Thunder in paradise show now, a younger me was happy to watch it due to the boat.
I’ve been trying to find this one for a while now but what’s the FMV where the family loses their baby child and the house sitter pretends to be taking care of the imaginary baby even though it doesn’t exist? I think that’s the premise
The best part of Supreme Warrior was that winning the fight was literally doing the correct sequence. The fights weren't dynamic and didn't involve reaction or strategy. Magazines at the time just printed out what buttons to push in what order. It was hilarious.
Hey, Hulk Hogan should have become a FMV Game MEME today lol!