Full-motion video games occupy a curious niche in video game history. If you’re not familiar with the term, it refers to games that use actual real-world filmed footage in their gameplay. The genre flourished briefly in the mid-90’s, when the advent of CD-ROMs provided developers with enough storage space to make use of pre-recorded footage—first in point-and-click games like The 7 th Guest and Phantasmagoria , and then in cinematic titles like Wing Commander III , which memorably featured Mark Hamill. While the idea of games using real footage with real movie stars was exciting at the time, in practice, it proved kinda clunky, and when the arrival of 3D acceleration hardware enabled CG to leap forward in quality and speed, FMV was suddenly yesterday’s news.…