The Story of Digital Pictures & The Sega CD's Full Motion Video Games | Wrestling With Gaming

Digital Pictures was the FMV studio behind Sega CD classics like Sewer Shark and Night Trap, but their story didn't start at Sega. In fact, Digital Pictures story dates back all the way to the early 80s .
From a partnership with Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, to working with a famous toy manufacturer, and even becoming a developer for the ill-fated Sony-Nintendo Play Station. This is the story of Digital Pictures.
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[@tgreaux5027]

I absolutely LOVED my Sega CD when I bought it back in 1994, I saved up for a whole year to buy it and stayed up all night every night for like 3 months straight when I bought it. SewerShark, Night Trap, Ground Zero Texas, Lethal Enforcers, Sonic CD etc, there were so many awesome games that were so cheesy and campy but as a kid you didnt care, all I remember was being blown away that you could see actual real video on a game console! Honestly its probably the console I remember most fondly...well besides my old PC of course lol

[@TristansGameRoom]

"Night Trap will never appear on a Nintendo System." *4/20/2018 comes around...* Night Trap is announced for the Switch.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Lol I know, right?

[@juanitobenito]

I was about to comment that lol

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

😂

[@shalpp]

Words that age like cheese

[@bubbythebear6891]

@@shalpp Don't you mean milk? Aged cheese is a delicacy.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

If you like this video enough to share it please consider sharing it on Reddit. It's probably the best way to help my channel grow!I apologize for the 2nd notification but due to KZbin demonetizing the original video I released I had to publish this version which has already gone through manual review. The only difference between this video and the original I published are 3 words. So there's no need to re-watch if you already watched the first one... that is unless you really want to :-)The GameShark video is still coming, I promise! Due to some potential new contacts for the GameShark video I had to delay editing it but it will be the next video.

[@zeromancer-x]

3 words, seriously?

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Yep lol. If anything this version of the video is technically "worse." Basically this is the first version i uploaded to youtube. It immediately got demonetized and was stuck in manual review for a while. It was taking so long to be reviewed that I started uploading slightly different versions to youtube in the hopes that one of them wouldn't get demonetized. On one of the versions i uploaded I removed one of the senators saying "murder of women" and boom, it was monetized and that's the version that's been up since Monday. But yesterday I noticed that that one had also become demonetized. At some point my original video, this one, got approved through manual review so I decided it's best just to publish this version since it's already gone through the review process. Fun times huh? lol

[@CasperUK31]

Were the three words You and Tube and Sucks?

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

lol no. It was one of the senators saying "murder of women" in the first couple of minutes. It may actually have been "it advocates the murder of women" so a little more than 3 words but I think you get what I mean. It was literally jsut a few words. the funny thing is that this version actually includes that phrase and the one that was demonetized doesn't. So technically this is the "edgier" version. lol

[@ghos7bear]

Fucking KZbin.

[@KieferSkunk]

This was a great look at such an interesting time in video game history. :) My father was the lead programmer for Sewer Shark, and also developed the video codec used for most of DP's games. I vividly remember watching him doing endless code/decode sessions with the original tapes to squeeze out the best possible video quality from the Sega CD's limited hardware. I am just full of little trivia facts from the NEMO and Sega CD. :) Fun fact: In Sewer Shark, there are basically two halves of the game. While you're in the first two call signs, Dogmeat and Ratbreath, your movement through the sewers is relatively slow. After Falco supposedly crashes in Sector 19 and Commissioner Stenchler acknowledges her disappearance, Ghost takes you back to the garage and puts some extra stuff on the ship. When he gives you the Exterminator callsign and you launch again, the ship moves a lot faster through the pipes. In the NEMO version, Catfish would continue to give you verbal directions in this second half of the game - junctions were called out 5 at a time instead of 3. The "Crazy-Lookin' Thing" that guides you through Sector 19 was originally meant to show up much later when Catfish essentially disappears. But on the Sega CD, Catfish's callouts (and pretty much all of Ghost's verbal feedback) had to be cut because the video codec had to work harder with the increased movement speed and motion blur. So the Crazy-Lookin' Thing showed up at the start of that section instead, which was much easier to animate.

[@TheVoiceofTheProphetElizer]

Tell your dad thank you for his work. I cannot tell you how much I played Sewer Shark as a kid and how much I enjoyed that game and getting the different cut scenes based on how well I was doing in the game. That was a lot of fun and such a great time in gaming.

[@Paradigmfusion]

Sewer shark was a great FMV game. Way better on the 3D0 though.

[@Aaron-ge7ho]

@@Paradigmfusion i never even knew that 3DO received a Sewer Shark port untill a couple hours back (that was a system that i assume never had any contact and now nothing), but don't know if due to had played so much on Sega CD, but i enjoy much more the sound and cockpit there than what i could saw about the 3DO researching this afternoon. It just fits better the whole theme. Anyway... i never managed to finish SS, even nailing all the jumps through "pause scum" to took notes. Always got into some sequence where the spaghetti fatty and his blond minion partie in a beach and credits roll - since i used to play it as a young teenager and only propperly got some english understanding in my adulthood, never got what they was saying then assumed it was unbeatable for a time, but always enjoyed the challange.

[@Paradigmfusion]

@@Aaron-ge7ho the 3DO version (of all Digital Pictures games it got) had way better video quality, sound and music. Just for shits and giggles I fired it up on my 3DO emulator (that’s grainy SegaCD video with 16 colors is just painful to see nowadays lol) and had it beat in an hour. (Once i remembered how to play it) The 3DO was a great system. Just was marketed poorly. Tripp Hawkins (founder of EA) decided to launch a video game system. And instead of taking game royalties (which all Game companies do so they can sell the system at a loss and still make money) Tripp decided “Hey. How about I just have a bunch of companies make my system and I’ll charge them a percentage for everyone built, game companies will flock to me for cheaper game distribution and I’ll be the best!!” Ehhhh no. Because of Tripps “charge the console builder” strategy, the 3DO launched with a $749 price tag. (In 1993 money) and because it had ONE game at launch (Crash and Burn. A very “90s” case style racing game) and other makers not flocking to Tripp as he imagined. It didn’t last long. It doesn’t work. But I have a launch Panasonic FZ1 unit. (Panasonic, Hitachi and Goldstar built their own units. The cheaper FZ10 model launched with cheaper components and a top loading drive. But it was dead in the water at that point. It did have some good ones though. Need for Speed hit 3DO before PS1 for example. It was just marketed poorly.

[@Drain_Life_Archive]

The new release of Night Trap gets rated T, the original was M and they tried to ban it. The times sure have changed.

[@jamiewilliamson9829]

And it got released on a Nintendo platform

[@opo3628]

The excuse was that Night Trap "portrayed graphic violence against teens and children"...when all of the actors were *clearly* full grown adults and there was more violence in your average Looney Tunes cartoon than in this game. Hilarious, really.

[@KieferSkunk]

@@opo3628 A couple points on this: First, while the actors were clearly adults, they were playing teenage girls, so the context of the story lends itself to the government's claim. Second, as Zito mentioned, Lieberman had refused to actually play Night Trap at all, so he only went on the bits of footage he'd been shown and didn't have any more context than that. He'd also been jaded by Mortal Kombat, which definitely went miles beyond Looney Tunes in terms of violence, so it's easy to see how he conflated the two. And to be fair, just watching a woman being held by several supposedly male characters and hauled out of the bathroom with an odd blood-sucking weapon held to her throat... No matter how unrealistic and even comical the scene was, it did portray the kind of coercion that at the time was a serious problem for concerned parents and the government alike. But @Drain_Pipe_Old is right - times really have changed. That sort of thing is more tolerated now, and our higher quality video does a much better job of pointing out that these were bad actors wearing trash bags and holding plastic toy weapons that had no possibility of being harmful. But people in the 90s were generally not that perceptive. New tech brought new fears.

[@MattyIcecubes]

That's because back then video games were still largely considered toys for kids.

[@zachreddy]

This is exactly the kind of content I come to KZbin for. Brilliant video, sorry to hear about the demonetization hassle.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks! I just try to make the kind of videos I would like to see. I appreciate the support man, I kind of expected to have some demonetization issues but I didn't think it would be demonetized 4 days after being posted. lol.

[@swiftxmiles]

Howard: It doesn't fit our guidelines *Few years later* Nintendo: Mortal Kombat 11 is arriving to Nintendo Switch

[@DashingPunkSamurai]

Looking back these games were horrendous but but back in the day, Double Switch, Ground Zero Texas, Dracula Unleashed & Corpse Killer were what seriously got me into gaming. After these I was hooked and was no longer a reactionary buyer who found out about products when they came out but was reading shouting them, preordering them, constantly talking about them and made me a day one buyer of new games and the newest systems. I was officially hooked and have been a active video game player ever since. And despite how bad they were, I have the best memories. The Sega Cd kicked my but into gear but the Saturn & PsOne changed my life.

[@dun0790]

I love your videos just discovered you and im currently binge watching most of it THANK YOU high quality gaming documentarys are my new addictions

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks so much. That's awesome to hear.

[@Jenovi]

Amazing work man! If I didn't know you and just saw this playing on a tv in a video rental store, I would believe this was part of a Nexflix Exclusive series. The real question everyone wants to know is, did you watch that movie and how was it?

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks buddy 😀 I watched Game Over ages ago but didn't know any of the history behind it. I recognized some of the footage from Digital Pictures games and was like, what the hell is going on here? That movie is terrible and I can't recommend it enough. That's not a typo lol.

[@angelmanfredy]

I was a tester at SEGA testing Night Trap, Sewer Shark, and all of the Make My Videos games. Back then it was pretty horrible, now I have great memories especially with the early 90s music of Kriss Kross, Marky Mark, and INXS. Good times.

[@sargonsblackgrandfather2072]

I had the Kriss Kross make my video game, it was great fun at the time

[@BrianRaider]

GREAT GREAT!!!!!!!! IM 39 &... i randomly today searched SILPHEED GROUND Zero TEXAS & prize fighter Games i had when i was a kid, when i noticed the Full Motion theme in both, & your video was on the side suggested. THIS VIDEO TOOK ME BACK. As Bad as they may seem now, I ENJOYED THOSE GAMES AS A KID. This Video Is Thorough As Possible. THANKU GREAT JOB.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks for the kind words and watching. I appreciate it!

[@dundy7845]

I love Night Trap, it's so bad you can't help but love it. I have wanted to play it ever since I first heard about it years ago and I'm so glad that it's now available on more accessible consoles, I actually played it a second time after I finished it for the first time. It may not be the best game in the world, but it's become a personal favorite of mine.

[@lennybrewster4673]

It's one of those games that's so bad it's great in its own way.

[@KieferSkunk]

@@lennybrewster4673 Exactly how it was intended.

[@superdave7498]

17:45 Howard Lincoln, "Night Trap will never appear on a Nintendo system." cut to 2018, Night Trap now on Nintendo Switch.

[@John_Lee_]

This should have more views. I come back and watch this once a month. It's so nostalgic.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks! Glad you liked it. I'm a huge fan of FMV games and i think digital pictures has a really interesting story so I was a bit disappointed with its number of views myself. But oh well, they can't all be winners lol

[@RetroIslandGaming]

I love FMV games and I love hearing about FMV games even more. Great episode. Let's hope for a definite resurgence in FMV style games! :)

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

I'd love for FMV games to make a real comeback. There are a few modern ones out there but they lack the charm of the 90s crop of games imo.

[@jakebowski02]

Tex Murphy!!

[@swishpronoob]

Have you tried Late Shift?

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

I adore FMV games. So much fun.

[@duskonanyavarld1786]

Red alert is a great game

[@SubieandFriends]

You have a voice that would keep anybody watching regardless of the subject your documenting, I'm a long time gamer and enjoy everything and anything about video games whether old or new, but I especially love documentaries regarding retro games and your voice just kept my eyes glued to my phone screen, your tone of voice has this enjoyable likeness that makes it so easy to understand the subject at hand, your soothing tone fills my brain with a warm nostalgia feeling that is hard to get from other documentary narrators/host's. Amazing work man!

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks for the kind words. I truly appreciate it and I'm glad you like the content.

[@SubieandFriends]

@@WrestlingWithGaming your welcome! complimenting your work is the least I could do considering the great memories you were able to dig up from my brain, theres no better feeling then the euphoria you get when you relive old great gaming memories.

[@franknitti9126]

Is it just me but does Zito sound a lot like Kermit the frog?

[@codemiesterbeats]

lmfao yea I just commented "Kermit the frog here" 5:24

[@SlyJMan]

The thumbnail in a Game Grumps video brought me.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

I was pretty surprised when I saw my own video’s thumbnail in their video lol. Thanks for taking the time to check it out.

[@Destron5683]

I remember getting a JVC Xeye as a kid and it came with Prize Fighter and Sewer Shark bundled in, at the time I thought they were the most amazing games ever, Then Origin launched Wing Commander 3 on PC and blew my mind all over again because it looked so much better, of course as a kid I didn’t realize than the Sega FMV games were so limited due to Sega hardware. But I have fond memories of many FMV games as a kid because they became so prevalent for a short period. Although hands down the best game that system introduces me to was Popful Mail

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Argh. I should've mentioned prize fighter coming with the Xeye! I know what you mean about wing commander. WC3 and WC4 are two of my favorite games of all time. They felt like you were part of an adventure.

[@31leoceara]

That Xeye must have costed an eye back in the day!

[@Amir-kc9yu]

This channel should have more subscribers. The videos are great.

[@goodiesguy]

21:16 That Jungle Book game is the Best FMV of all time IMO, but then I've played it since I was a young child. It really is a good one though.

[@misteramerika7020]

I love your videos! I play the audio while I’m driving and it makes the commute actually educational and entertaining!

[@kareliask]

Magnificent work as always, you are making some of the best gaming documentaries on KZbin.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks David. I'm trying!

[@cougar2013]

Great job on these videos. Entertaining and definitive!

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks!

[@joncarlos716]

I actually liked fmvs games it was different

[@Gorilla_Jones]

Same, they weren't my favorite but definitely there was some fun to be had.

[@mark6302]

sewer shark was the bomb

[@ChibiSothe]

They sure looked like they had charm.. That's for sure.

[@leemckenna8214]

Such potential. I always loved the ones at the arcade and the hologram ones.

[@31leoceara]

Me too. It was technically impressive for the time.

[@dirkdiggler7912]

I’ll never forget getting a Sega CD and playing Sewer Shark and Ground Zero Texas. I truly thought we had reached the pinnacle of gaming.

[@Dewderonomy]

This is pro, man. Great job. As a Sega CD owner, remembering Working Designs (Lunar, Popful Mail, Vay) and DP (Sewer Shark, Night Trap) very fondly as a kid, this was a treat. Although Zito sounds like Kermit. lol

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks man! The Tom Zito interview is like 90 minutes long and I probably listened to it like three full times and never noticed that he sounded like Kermit. Now that everyone's pointed it out it's all I can think of when I see his face lol

[@kenjimiwa3739]

Thanks for capturing this very interesting slice of history.

[@FerintoshFarmsPhotography]

Glad to see you've got a new video man, always look forward to these learning experiences

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks man

[@RW-ij1ci]

Also I love that Nighttrap is on the switch now...

[@KnjazNazrath]

Wow, some real nostalgic hit when I saw that CVG cover. Made me dig out my old video game magazines only to remember I got rid of them when I moved house a while ago. Sad times.

[@willmistretta]

The whole situation is perfectly described by Zito looking at kids playing Super Mario Bros. and his takeaway being that the graphics weren't flashy enough. This one anecdote is a microcosm of everything that eventually soured gamers and the industry on FVM.

[@nevets4298]

Great work once again, you can never go wrong with any of your videos

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks so much!

[@orinanime]

That's amazing! If they ever re-release an updated version of Sewer Shark, I'll happily buy it on day-one!

[@treverchalmers9473]

Me too for sure i still play it on an emulater for now. Ahh good times with the sega cd.

[@HellScream107]

Great video as always man! These games blew my mind as a kid and I thought live action FMVs were going to be the future! Very good work and information. Keep up the good work!!

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks! I've always had a soft spot for FMV games.

[@deshirabrinson272]

I was the only kid with a Sega CD these games were definitely ahead of they time.

[@sogero2]

Thank you for making this. I really like how this video and the one on Virtuality are done so professionally without the cancerous hype that most youtube gaming channels are infected with. Great work!

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks!

[@davidsomoza]

It is funny now that Night Trap is on a Nintendo System after what Lincoln said.

[@godzilla7391]

Keep up the good work! Your my new G4TV . Its like getting new episodes of Icons all over again! Kudos.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

I LOVED G4 icons so that's high praise. Thanks!

[@John_Lee_]

Very interesting video about a weird time in gaming. Keep up the good work!

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks John, I appreciate it!

[@rossomac21]

I have managed to watch all the videos you have on this channel over the course of this weekend. Thank you for your hard work, the video lengths leave me wanting more so I consider you are doing a good job. Please excuse my ramblings but I walk with wrestling with gaming.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks! My goal is to try to put out 16 videos this year. I'm already a little behind haha. Seriously though, thanks for watching everything and taking the time to comment, I appreciate. Your comment reminded me that I wish Elias had a bigger role at this year's mania. Dude is a future main-eventer if booked correctly.

[@brianoconnell6459]

Fun fact: The SFX from Sewer Shark were done by John Dykstra's Apogee Studio.

[@KieferSkunk]

Dykstra's studio was responsible for the sewer pipes as well. :)

[@JVicViperX]

I know I'm late to the game on this video but I just wanted to say thank you for putting together this great tribute to Zito and FMV games. Just fantastic!

[@losalfajoresok]

Another great work that I'm using for my video game history lessons. Thanks a lot!

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks for checking it out!

[@prinzbach]

I remember wanting a sega CD SOooo Bad at the time... Watching the gameplay now, I didn't miss much. YET, I have a strong nostalgia for it... At least they tried something new.

[@sargonsblackgrandfather2072]

No you really did miss out, there was a lot of really fantastic games that pushed the hardware on the sega cd, it wasn’t all FMV there were groundbreaking games like Snatcher and Thunderhawk that couldn’t be done on other systems of the time

[@prinzbach]

@@sargonsblackgrandfather2072 I do agree that there's some cool games on the Sega CD and it was clearly ahead of it's time. I need to try some of them out with emulation. Nowadays, there's also a lot of English translations for all the hidden gems from Japan!

[@shinypb]

This is a another great episode - thanks for putting it together, WWG!

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks! Appreciate you checking it out.

[@bradnimbus4836]

Hit another one out of the park! Great job homie!

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks man!

[@dmoehling]

These were always my favorite Sega cd games! I’m a huge retro FMV fan. I recall reading an article from Tom Zito that mentioned them shooting all of the video in “high def” back in the day and how disappointed he was to see what Sega’s compression algorithm did to their video and sound. I’ve always hoped newer versions of these games would release in 1080p.

[@RobNoireGaming]

This was really interesting! Those FMV games are something that were always in the background when I was a kid but I really didn't know much about. Always appreciate the amount of research and polish you put into these mini-documentaries

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks! Digital Pictures was definitely trying to do something different but unfortunately technology of the time couldn't match their ambition.

[@brianoconnell6459]

Funny thing is, I know one of the developers behind the footage (and later who converted it to the SegaCD, 3DO, etc). These were originally designed for a revolutionary game console called the ISIX Nemo, which ran off of VHS tape, using a unique frame buffering system to split the footage up. I played the prototype, and *boom* mind blown.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

ISIX is covered around the 10:15 mark.

[@napoleonfeanor]

Imagine a loading screen with the noises of a VHS tape rewinding.

[@NickBartolo]

I continue to be impressed by your content. Excellent work.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks man,I appreciate it!

[@supersquare]

I love this channel so much!! All of your videos are amazing and so well done

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks so much! I'm working on making my next video a special one.

[@supersquare]

@@WrestlingWithGaming I seriously can't wait!!

[@JoshNieporte]

I still have the "Making of" VHS tape. Corpse Killer looked nice in the '90s.

[@superb0lly]

Excellent video, super interesting! I loved the Power Rangers FMV game for Sega CD

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks for taking the time to watch. The power Rangers game is surprisingly good and has pretty decent controls as well.

[@trevmex]

Great stuff as always! Keep the videos coming!

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks!

[@Randomark3087]

The Government tried to steer people away from Night Trap, but instead it made more people buy the game. I LOVE IT! 😂

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Yeah, you'd think that they would've learned their lesson from the parental advisory labels on music lol.

[@simzzoker123]

Listening to what they were saying about it, showed they had no idea what the game was about just, screaming girls being attacked by foot clan soldiers that accidentally wandered of the set of first TMNT movie = Bad for kids

[@brandonreina5450]

@@simzzoker123 But Family Home Entertainment (the kids division of Artisan Home Entertainment) released the very first TMNT movie on videocassette

[@somethingsomething9008]

the government made this would be obscure forgotten bad game into something still remembered

[@lookoutpiano8877]

So well researched and executed. I am really impressed with the production quality of your videos. Thank you

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks!

[@gentlemancaller4058]

Love the time and hard work put into these videos. Anything worth doing is worth doing right. Great job man.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thank you!

[@brianoconnell6459]

Interesting that Sony was getting into purchasing the games, because when I was a QA contractor at SOA in 1991, I spotted one of the cubicles 20 feet away watching one of the game tapes, and immediately recognized the footage playing from it. I think it was a fighter game, because up until that point, in 1989, all I saw/played were Sewer Shark, Night Trap, and a "make your own music video" demo that would go on to be used for Kid and Play's Make Your Own Video title.

[@vince19games]

Absolutely phenomenal and in-depth review of an extremely intriguing period of video game history. Well done!!

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks man. It was a fun one to put together.

[@ColtSSR]

You do an awesome job of these man

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks!

[@Rationalific]

Fascinating history that I did not know!

[@kimberlyrose984]

I’d love to play these games and with the technology we have now, it could look and play really well!

[@lennybrewster4673]

You could emulate it if you want.

[@Bluemilk92]

KZbin is amazing... It gives people like you a platform to shoot a hot load of knowledge right into my eye-holes.

[@shahid1296ify]

Mate , what a brilliant video !!

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks so much!

[@johneygd]

Am amezed that despites the color limitations of the sega cd, digital pictures did not refused to port their vhs night trap game to the sega cd ,just in order to make their dream became true. Also wow, i did not know that you could stream analogue video as an background to collecovision games if desired, but suppose that atari 2600 adaptor does just that.

[@KieferSkunk]

The ColecoVision had the necessary hardware on the motherboard to do this, but there was no connector for it, and no software was ever written that would let it do that. It was an unused feature - the clip shown early on I believe was just a mockup of what it could look like.

[@Flint_Ironstagg]

i'll watch it again bro, you deserve the views good sir

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Well... I'm not going to try to stop you or convince you not to lol. I appreciate it man.

[@clydesalley]

I loved these FMV games. Dracula Unleashed was basically the cheesiest Dracula movie ever made once you made it through the game. Your reward for beating Corpse Killer was to end up out on a yacht with Julie, who had been giving you advice while dressed in Khaki's but was now wearing a rather skimpy bikini. The actress was Bridget Butler and she went on to a long and distinguished acting career......well maybe not. Another cool part of Corpse Killer was Vincent Schiavelli playing the Big Bad. I guess he quit his day job at Ridgemont High. And Robert Costanzo's role in Sewer Shark had to be the highlight of his career. They don't make games like they used to.

[@Joeyboots80]

Impressively comprehensive! So glad I stumbled across your channel a little while back. :)

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks ham burgler. I hope one day my videos help lead you away from your life of burger crimes. But seriously, thanks!

[@adamhovey407]

I'm always baffled, when in all of your videos, I see dislikes, and I can't for the life of me think of why. You don't go out of your way to offend, you tell the story, sometimes you give your opinion, but it's usually not something that's heavy-handed, I love your videos, in fact I love your videos, like I love that Telecaster in in this video.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks Adam, I appreciate that. It's that internet, there's always someone offended about something lol. Seriously though, it doesn't bother me. Can't please everyone.

[@wbl_unlimited]

Thank you for reminding me Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch existed.

[@dubbschultz1]

Sewer shark was one of my favorites!

[@antonionavarrete8210]

Love, Love, Love this episode! I totally miss this brief but wide eyed period in gaming.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks man, I really enjoyed putting it together. Feel free to share it because hardly anyone is watching it lol.

[@antonionavarrete8210]

Challenge Accepted!

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks!

[@Gam1ngGor1lla]

Came from GameGrumps! Loved the video.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

That’s awesome. Appreciate you taking the time to check it out. I was pretty surprised when I saw my own video’s thumbnail at the end of their video lol.

[@geekehUK]

If the timing had just been slightly different I suspect their fortunes would have been a lot better. If they'd landed the license to create a Power Rangers game, they could have reused the footage from the show, and ordered any extra scenes they needed for dialogue from the US studio, this would have dramatically lowered the cost of development while still being popular with fans of the series because it would have featured the same actors and allowed them to do all the cool stuff from their favourite TV show. The visuals would have been better than anything on the market at the time and current gen hardware could have rendered the zords pretty well, maybe not for a 3D fighting game, but certainly giant robot battles as a sprite based 2D fighter would still have been good. I think a cross-genre title with FMV elements tying it all together would have worked well, with fighting stages, on-rails shooter stages, as well as maybe adventure stages to move the plot forward. Throw in some golden axe or streets of rage style side scroller / fighting stages utilising FMV backgrounds and captured digital character models of the Power Rangers out of costume while exploring, then when they run into enemies they can transform into their costumed counterparts to fight which could either have been more video captured sprites or generated models given that they all wore fairly basically designed, brightly coloured costumes. It should have tied together well, been cheap to produce and have been both a critical and financial success. A single massive success would have given them the working capital as well as interest and investment to develop more aspirational projects and the gravitas to be able to license some big name IPs, things like ghostbusters, which would have worked great by drawing translucent ghosts and proton streams, over the top of FMV. Or how about a star wars title maybe with first person perspective lightsabre battles?

[@thetreblerebel]

I played the shit out of Sewer Shark, Double Switch, Dracula Unleashed. At the time, the Sega CD just seemed so advanced compared to the 16 bit stuff we had

[@XX-sp3tt]

18:08 Night Trap Anniversary Edition is available for sale for the Nintendo Switch.

[@jcdenton1454]

Your narration voice and editing have improved so much. Gaming historian's gonna need to catch up haha

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks! I've been working pretty hard to improve both so I can't tell you how good it feels to read that.

[@andreo]

As always, great job.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks!

[@jamesmoss3424]

Fmv games and the Sega CD 💿 is a match may in heaven at the time. 😀👍🎮

[@kcsnipes]

scene of the crime was great i want more games like that !

[@gamebunkeradventures4575]

Thank you so much for another stellar video. To me you are by far one of the best creators on KZbin.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Aww thanks man

[@linkage432]

Don’t know how I haven’t seen your channel sooner. Love it!! Subbed!!

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks and welcome aboard!

[@CandisClassicGameShrine]

I was wondering why I haven't seen your content lately, it's because KZbin has been hiding your uploads from my subscriptions feed. Glad I found this in a different feed. Great work as always dude.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Ugh. I was afraid that something like that happened with this video. It has a really small amount of views and a really small percentage of that are from subscriptions. I'll probably have to do a community post tomorrow so that it shows in people's feed. Thank you for the compliment and for the heads up about the video!

[@CandisClassicGameShrine]

Yeah when I clicked on this and saw the number of views and likes, I figured I wasn't alone. I friggin hate how YT keeps screwing everyone over. This site is such a mess. Ever since they demonetized my channel, my views tanked too.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Damn. Sorry to hear that.

[@CandisClassicGameShrine]

That's alright. I'm still going to keep on keeping on. I enjoy making videos and if I happen to get my monetization back, awesome. If not, it is what it is. It was just a nice bonus to making videos in all honesty.

[@nilz23]

These videos are so good I'm surprised to you only have 36k subscribers.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Thanks! I appreciate it!

[@bryantmartell6138]

Nice logo. Great video

[@Toybinger]

For the longest time, I thought Bill Paxton was the pilot in Sewer Shark.

[@codemiesterbeats]

I played mortal kombat as a kid.... I am permanently warped.

[@39zack]

Sounds like that senator got the point of Night Trap backwards

[@saskia6750]

poly(fake) ticians..Are only interested in removing your rights and entitlements !! I wouldnt expect anything different,probably had shares in nintendo

[@alexanderroberts3855]

This was so good. Wrestling With Gaming is the best gaming show on KZbin! Hail to the king baby.

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

I don't know about being the best lol. But I really appreciate the kind words!

[@alexanderroberts3855]

No seriously, you and Gaming Historian are killing it!

[@SomeOrangeCat]

I owned a demo CD that had the Maximum Surge demo on it. Real shame we never got that one.

[@PatJ613]

This is excellent, really great quality! I love this stuff and sit through some pretty awful histories and documentaries haha Great job man!

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Haha thanks man. Glad this wasn't one of the awful ones you had to sit through lol.

[@kingdbag]

I loved Sega CD and it's FMV games. As a kid I always wondered why game graphics were so bad and would dream of the day they looked real. FMV games brought us much closer to this way earlier than the hardware ever could at the time.

[@AdmiralBison]

I wish FMV made a comeback. The technology today would make them look awesome. Imagine seeing FMV cutscenes of Solid Snake or FMV Otacon portraits.

[@Paradigmfusion]

Night trap was so blown out of proportion with congress. They were talking about vampires, blood, guts, meat hooks and beheadings. But if the dude actually played it and not focus on the hoodlums with their “plastic neck hook “ he’d have known it was just 90s cheese whiz. More comical than anything. And the game had very little violence.

[@EarthboundX]

Very nicely done!

[@WrestlingWithGaming]

Gracias!

[@mscottjohnson3424]

Ha! Night Trap is available on the Switch Virtual Console. Howard Lincoln lied to Congress!

[@remixchild]

Nintendo brought it back after Lincoln left

[@TheMan-ye8gt]

Excellent video. Made me miss my childhood just a bit. **sniff** :( Loved the Sega CD and had/played a bunch of their games and would insta-buy them again for PC/Steam if Zito or anyone would get the rights and re-release them.

[@jennaorlowski9228]

I didn't watch this video... But I just had to stop by the comment that when I was scrolling through my feed and I saw this in the Sega icon... I heard the "Segggga" sound bite in my mind😋