Take a tour of the FMV games I grew up playing and learn how they scarred my existence! There’s more to come, and we’re leading up to a full-length review of one of the oddest FMV games ever made! Now we tackle the most dreaded of the FMV titles: the interactive movies. We begin with Foxhunt and continue on to one of the rarest and most difficult games to run: Johnny Mnemonic.
He’s a data courier in a future that hasn’t invented e-mail or thumb drives, and if you touch the computers your head explodes. Jeez, even in the future nothing works. Will Johnny ever find the rest of his computer so he can start tracking down that damn download code? And will it do him any good since every computer he touches melts his brain?
Only Chef can provide those answers, so we head to the Lo-Tek headquarters to hack our own brains and to get our hands on some chocolate salty balls!
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Were you going to review minority report? Did I miss that?
This goes to show how good of an actor Christopher Walken and John Rhyes Davis are, they took their roles seriously, and made them believeable
Hilarious! That’s definetly the funniest and most sophisticated FMV-Review i’ve seen for a while. :) :D Sometimes I think Spoony an me had the same childhood (and definetly the same FMV collection). ;) More! More! There are so many more FMV-Games to do. ;)
(by the way: There is another (rather good) FMV game called Burn:Cycle which was mainly a rip-of of “Johnny Mnemonic” for CD-i, Mac and Windows.)
It never got made I think the video capturing never worked out. I asy that since he mentioned to difficulty in his Ask Spoony video
LORD OF TEKKEN!?! I SHALL AIR JUGGLE your ASS
That money was a old Dutch 100 Gulden note
Am I the only one who, when they heard “phantasmagoria,” they yelled out “PHANTASMAGORIA!!!!11″?
What?!No Keanu Reeves!Its a disgrace!
I love this one Spoony, watching it over and over again running it in the bagground while i play ma’ games :P
Oh and yes, was there supposed to be a minority report game review?
Who is the actor playing Jonny in this game?
i never played a lot of these games but i do remember seeing them. the one i did play was the first xfiles game and i didnt mind it until i got to the bit that was shown in this vid. i saved it 2 secs before this and as soon as i loaded the game i died. i had to play the entire game again i couldnt believe it. i did eventially finish it a year later within 3 days.
Hey, I liked The Journeyman Project, and if the crappy visuals are an issue, the remake version is even better. I would recommend both the sequels, Buried in Time and Legacy of Time, for some excellent time-travel adventuring.
I remember those awesome Tex Murphy games! Under a Killing Moon was the best I thought but I’ve only played Overseer (shitty) and Under A Killing Moon… although I haven’t played either one since before the turn of the millennium. Wow, looking back, FMV games deserved to die a horrible death.
i always laugh so hard when you use the fuse box count xD
The Journeyman Project was great. I loved Legacy of Time in particular, but it was a pretty fun series overall. I don’t see why you don’t like it.
Wow! I totally remember Megarace! Took me 6 years to figure out that I could actually accelerate too…
and to be totally honest… We still have Foxhunt and Johnny Mnemonic sitting on our shelves here at home. :P
I remember Journeyman Project for Windows. I was little back then and it scared the pure SHIT OUT OF ME. Sure going back in time to find different objects is fun, But hearing voices from no where and experiencing a future where there is a dead silence and the music will make you shit yourself will have you sitting in the fucking corner with a flashlight.
Noah….YOu are forgetting one of the most bizarre and downright fucked up FMV games of all time…Harvester. I’m not kidding. That game was hands down the weirdest thing I’ve ever played.
Really enjoy your videos! And your reference to Scientology and Lord Xenu after mentioning Isaac Hayes?! Pure WIN!
Okay, I have a question. I’ve got a copy of Overseer (One of the Tex Murphy series, duh), and am not able to play it. Do I need DosBOX for it? I have DosBOX on my Linux computer, but not for my FailXP computer. Do I need?
Again, epic fucking win!
WTF? You feature Myst and don’t give it a credit? *Outraged*
Game suggstion: Psychic Detective.
What no MR T?
game suggestion: Indigo Prophecy
Foxhound? I had that game! When I saw the wierd pose the guy did it came flooding back to me. God was that a bad game. I hope you do a full review sometime…
Speaking of FMV games, how about Police Quest: Swat. That was somewhat FMV iirc. That was semi decent and would be fun to see you do.
Foxhunt.. not foxhound…
Where is the mention of Harvester? :(
btw love the use of silent hill 2 music in the end :)
you ever actually goanna review minority report?
Spoony if you reading this i have a game you might review on Playstation The Spriggan i hope you will find this game, if you can’t ill try to donate it :)
The way you used the cowbell joke was brilliant.
Sweet! You used the deathcoaster music from Army of Darkness over the fighting instructions!
Pro tip: Don’t get beat up by Andy Dick!
XD
I want that on a shirt!
Hey Noah,
The money that Johnny gives the homeless man in the sewer is the original Dutch money (from the Netherlands), obviously way before we moved to the Euro ;-)
Hey, don’t bash The Journeyman Project! It had great design for its time…
Holy shit the Daedelus Encounter??? AAAarrghh my childhood
Crazy Don reminds me of Bob from Twin Peaks. This review is one of my favorites btw :)
One of my favourite reviews on this website. The analysis of Johnny Mnemonic was really funny.
I’d love to see you review some of the other games you showcase in greater detail one day; I already mentioned I’d love to see a review of The X-Files Game, but I’d love to see you look at the likes of Foxhunt and the Take-Two games.
Ahh man your talking about how those games never worked, I never did get any to work as well…I always had to ask mom for help.
Another celebrity I noticed in this was the Virtual Reality scene.
The Bailiff from The People’s Court.
I’ve noticed this in a couple videos including this one : When he references the storage of floppy disks he says they are 3 1/2 megabytes. Disks were 1.44 meg and the size was 3.5 inches
So did you ever get around to reviewing minority report or was it just to bad?
Are my eyes playing tricks on me or is that box full, beneath the Minority Report game, of Terry Pratchett books wrapped in bubble wrap?
not sure if its already been said, but the dude looks like a young jim carrey when he gets owned by the purple lightening
are you ever going to review the minority report? or was that whole thing just a gag for the episode?
You know what’s sad? Spoony’s about ten times a better actor then Brad Pitt. For anyone who didn’t get the Seven reference, you’re missing a great flick.
Dude, am a huge fan. I want to say: YOU ROCK!
PLS: give me a replay!
PLS2: I will give you money , wimen and power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What’s that one song you always use during scrolling text themes? It sounds all epic and whatnot.
Download everything, children.
That was Dutch money @15:45, lol :-) The currency used before the Euro.
LOL se7en SE7EN!!!!!!!
I need to see more of the Ripper! That is funny as hell!
Thanks for the reminder on one of my favorite Playstation games of all my early teens Noah. I’ve been combing your reviews for some time now to dig through the fog of my mind to unearth the name Fox Hunt for some time now. I just found it on Amazon for $20 too.
Say what you will about the game but I’ll pay $20 for a somewhat entertaining slice of my childhood brought to my door, only to have those fuzzy memories rendered to bloody gibbets by the cold unfeeling reality that awaits me. I’ll probably enjoy it anyhow.
Thanks.
What are 3.5 MB floppies? I know about 3.5 inch 1.44 MB floppies, as well as 5.25 inch 1.2MB ones.
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