Congo The Movie: The Lost City of Zinj
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Congo the Movie: The Lost City of Zinj is a first-person shooter developed by Jumpin Jack and published by Sega
for the Sega Saturn
in 1995.
The game uses elements of the film Congo
to tell a side story following the exploits Butembo Kabalo (played by Steven Anthony Jones), the only survivor of the first Travicom expedition in search of diamonds in the Congo jungle.
The FMV
segments were produced by A Commotion Pictures and use the TrueMotion S
video codec.
The game was mocked in Episode 13 of Broken Pixels. The commentators took issue with the fact that the cutscenes made little sense, that it was difficult to find and destroy the enemies attacking you, and that the instruction manual stated that all the enemies were female.
Sega
, usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world...
for the Sega Saturn
Sega Saturn
The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console that was first released by Sega on November 22, 1994 in Japan, May 11, 1995 in North America, and July 8, 1995 in Europe...
in 1995.
The game uses elements of the film Congo
Congo (film)
Congo is a 1995 action adventure film, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. It was directed by Frank Marshall and stars Laura Linney, Dylan Walsh, Tim Curry, Ernie Hudson, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Grant Heslov, and Joe Don Baker. The film was released on June 9, 1995 by...
to tell a side story following the exploits Butembo Kabalo (played by Steven Anthony Jones), the only survivor of the first Travicom expedition in search of diamonds in the Congo jungle.
The FMV
Full motion video
Full motion video based games are video games that rely upon pre-recorded TV-quality movie or animation rather than sprites, vectors, or 3D models to display action in the game. In the early 1990s a diverse set of games utilized this format...
segments were produced by A Commotion Pictures and use the TrueMotion S
TrueMotion S
TrueMotion S is a proprietary lossy video compression format and video codec developed by The Duck Company, now known by the name On2 Technologies....
video codec.
The game was mocked in Episode 13 of Broken Pixels. The commentators took issue with the fact that the cutscenes made little sense, that it was difficult to find and destroy the enemies attacking you, and that the instruction manual stated that all the enemies were female.