Cancelled 1990s FMV game American Hero returns for some reason

In the 1990s Atari dabbled in FMV for PC and the Atari Jaguar, with a format called GameFilm promising interactive movies with seamless scene transitions and choices that didn’t result in immediate dead-ends, but instead branched the story and affected a final score. The first GameFilm, Caves of Fear, was completed yet never released, while American Hero was filmed but never adapted into a game. The whole line was cancelled, a victim of the Jaguar’s commercial failure.

Retro publisher Ziggurat Interactive and developer Empty Clip Studios have revived American Hero, restoring it and bringing back lead actor Timothy Bottoms for additional voice-acting. Bottoms, the star of The Last Picture Show who also played George Bush on That’s My Bush!, features alongside Daniel Roebuck from The Fugitive and Musetta Vander, who played Lady Elara in Dune 2000 and the substitute teacher who turns out to be a mantis-woman in that one episode of Buffy.