Bug Blasters: The Exterminators (Sega CD) Playthrough

A playthrough of Sony Imagesoft's canceled FMV shooter for the Sega CD, Bug Blasters: The Exterminators. Originally slated for a 1995 release, Sony's The Exterminators was quietly canceled and shelved. The finished prototype resurfaced a few years later, though, and Good Deal Games gave it a commercial release in 2000. It's an FMV rail shooter starring the Bug Blasters, a team of superheroes who are trying to save Los Angeles from a mutant horde of huge, intelligent talking insects. It's essentially a low-brow "video" game reimagining of the Ghostbusters - a schlockfest of stereotyped accents, bug puppets with fully articulated pincer nipples, a healthy dash of pyrotechnics, and as eye-searing a 90s color palette as the Sega CD could muster. Bug Blasters looks to have been produced with a sizable budget as far as 90s FMV games go, and it's a thoroughly entertaining watch, but it's not hard to guess why the game never made it to retail shelves. The Sega CD hardware had one foot in the grave by 1995, and the video quality is exceedingly rough. It's nice that it's full-screen, but the compression artifacts and the low color depth make for a super muddy image, and the low framerate (about 10fps) and the sluggish d-pad controlled crosshair don't work well together when you're trying to shoot at fast, erratically moving targets. The game would've played much better on the 3DO or the CD-i with mouse or light gun controls. It's not a great game, but it would've been perfect as a Nickelodeon-style Halloween special, and I think that alone makes it worth giving a look. _____________ No cheats were used during the recording of this video. NintendoComplete (http://www.nintendocomplete.com/) punches you in the face with in-depth reviews, screenshot archives, and music from classic 8-bit NES games!