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Interactive movie

You watch a filmed or animated story and, at key moments, decide what the protagonist does or press a button in time to keep the scene going. Your role is choosing and reacting rather than moving freely.

Also known as: interactive film, FMV game

This is a basic entry: it has the definition and the classification. Full entries add history, games and a demo.

History

  1. 1983
    Origin

    Dragon's Lair (1983), animated by Don Bluth, was the first LaserDisc game released in the United States and popularised the format. It had precursors such as the film Kinoautomat (1967) and the electro-mechanical arcade game Wild Gunman (1974).

    Interactive film (Wikipedia)
  2. 1992

    Night Trap, for the Sega CD, tells its story through live-action video watched via security cameras.

    Night Trap (Wikipedia)
  3. 2018

    Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is Netflix's first major live-action interactive film.

    Interactive film (Wikipedia)