Games with full motion video

In the 90s the CD slowly became the main support for the distribution of video games. Floppy disks faded into nothingness and developer could stop trying to fit games into 20 disks, forcing gamers to disk swap. How to take advantage of the huge capacity of CDs? With lots of video, of course... and lots of less than good video games that used full motion video (or cartoons) as much as they could.

Most popular full motion video games

Myst

adventureWindows XP/98/95, Windows 3.x, Mac

Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within

adventureDOS, Windows XP/98/95

Phantasmagoria

adventureWindows XP/98/95, DOS, Mac

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Dragon's Lair

DOS1989protected3.7/5 Sullivan Bluth Interactive Media
Dragon's Lair 2: Time Warp

DOS1990protected4.1/5 Sullivan Bluth Interactive Media
Dragon's Lair 3: The Curse of Mordread

DOS1992protected3.9/5 Sullivan Bluth Interactive Media
Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within

DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected4.2/5 Sierra On-Line
Guy Spy and the Crystals of Armageddon

DOS19923.1/5 ReadySoft
Inca 2: Wiracocha

DOS19944.2/5 Coktel Vision
LA Law: The Computer Game

DOS19924.1/5 Synergistic Software

LA Law: The Computer Game is an abandoned adventure game based on the popular TV series from the 80s and 90s. L.A. Law. LA Law was developed by Synergistic Software and released by Capstone in 1992. LA Law plays like a multiple choice adventure game where you have to build up cases and bring them to court.
Martian Memorandum

DOS1991protected4/5 Access Software
Myst

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac1995protected4.1/5 Cyan Worlds
Phantasmagoria

Windows XP/98/95DOSMac1995protected4.3/5 Sierra On-Line
Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh

Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected3.7/5 Sierra On-Line
Realms of the Haunting

DOS1997protected3.8/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
Reelect JFK

Windows 3.x19943.7/5
Riven: The Sequel to Myst

Windows XP/98/95Mac1997protected4/5 Cyan Worlds
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective

Windows XP/98/951991protected4.1/5 ICOM Simulations
Space Ace

DOS19894.1/5 ReadySoft
Space Ace 2: Borf's Revenge

DOS19913.7/5 ReadySoft
Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac1996protected4.1/5 Access Software

Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive is the sequel to Under a Killing Moon and the 4th game in the Tex Murphy series. The Pandora Directive is a first-person 3D adventure game set in a dark sci-fi version of the U.S.A., more specifically in a futuristic San Francisco. The Pandora Directive was developed by Access Software and released in 1996 for...
Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac1994protected4/5 Access Software
The 11th Hour

Windows XP/98/951995protected4.1/5 Trilobyte
The 7th Guest

Windows XP/98/951993protected3.8/5 Trilobyte
The Dame Was Loaded

DOS1996protected4.2/5 Beam Software