Widge (the real one)

When people talk about FMV light-gun games, the conversation almost always begins with the same familiar names. Titles from companies like American Laser Games defined the genre in the early nineties, and for many players, they still represent its high-water mark. But running quietly alongside those well-known releases were a handful of projects that never quite found their audience. Games that existed on the fringes of arcades, or never properly escaped development at all. One of those games is Platoon, developed by Nova Productions. Nova's Doomed FMV Arcade Shooter Platoon was conceived as a full-motion video light-gun game in the same mould as its contemporaries: on-rails action, live-action footage, and enemy encounters driven entirely by pre-recorded scenes. The setting clearly evokes a Vietnam-era conflict with dense jungle terrain, ambushes from foliage, and enemy soldiers throughout. Although the game itself never explicitly names a location. And despite sharing its title w...