Speaking of celebrities, this game also featured Micheal Mckean as your companion Dalboz (implied to be the protagonist of the original three Zork games) and an inexplicable Rip Taylor, best known to younger nerds for making Morgan Webb and many viewers extremely uncomfortable on the 1,000th episode of X-Play.Ĭassandra Wong may have had a few moments in the spotlight since the early ’90s, courtesy of Relic Hunter, Curb Your Enthusiasm and a supporting role in Lilo and Stitch, but it’s still only a little surprising to see her running around on a big ugly spaceship in this sci-fi adventure/puzzle thing, just two years after the glory days of Wayne’s World 2 (and two years before Kull: The Conqueror. Part fantasy adventure and part spoof of Myst and all its clones, ZGI was crammed with silly and whimsical little touches, and Benedict’s performance, specifically his scene with the titular villain played by Eric Avari, helped keep everything light and fluffy yet still interesting as a game. The original Starbuck and Face from The A-Team made an appearance (starting here at around 4:30) as Antharia Jack in one of my most fondly remembered FMV games, Zork: Grand Inquisitor, a goofy but fun capstone to the “graphical trilogy” of Zork games that included Return to Zork and Nemesis. I doubt most if any of the actors on this list ever actually sat down and played through these games, but some of them deserve a real pat on the back if they did. But there are other cases where established actors - sometimes very established - threw themselves in front of a green screen for, shall we say, slightly less noble enterprises. The biggest success of this era in terms of good games that managed to net big stars without sacrificing their gaminess was obviously the Wing Commander franchise and its spinoffs, which will get considerable attention here. In some cases, you’d think they would have found better uses for their talent, but if I were them I’d just be glad I made it out of the battlefield of the ’90s in one piece.
This isn’t the amazing thing: what’s amazing is the amount of well-known actors that made appearances on our computer monitors during this krezzy time in videogame history. While the brief craze of putting actual video footage in computer games did result in some undeniable classics ( 7th Guest, Myst, the Journeyman Project for example), it unfortunately also resulted in a lot of forgettable/awful shit titles, some of them barely qualifying as “games”. ?Ah, Full Motion Video: its name falls like a soothing rain.
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