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Gaming Retro podcast: Blippo+ and FMVs

Podcast: Has the FMV genre been revived?

2025-08-18
By: Christian Cawley
On: August 18, 2025
In: The Gaming Retro podcast

Full-motion video (FMV) games have had a bad rap over the years, but they seem to be slowly garnering a new audience, as the technology finally catches up with their ambition. This week, I look at the news that Playdate title ⁠Blippo+ is coming to PC⁠ and consoles, while lookingRead More →

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Blippo+ brings retro FMV style to PC and Switch

2025-08-15
By: Christian Cawley
On: August 15, 2025
In: Retro games news

The Playdate channel surfing game has had it’s time on the compact handheld and is now arriving in full 1990s colour. My first experience with an FMV (full motion video) game was in an amusement arcade in the mid-1990s. It was, inevitably (if we’re discounting the earlier Dragon’s Lair whichRead More →

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