| Vid Grid | |
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| Developer(s) | Geffen Records High Voltage Software (Jaguar CD) |
| Publisher(s) | Windows Jaguar CD |
| Producer(s) | Norman Beil |
| Series | Vid Grid |
| Platform(s) | Atari Jaguar CD, Windows |
| Release | Windows Jaguar CD |
| Genre(s) | Interactive movie, puzzle |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Vid Grid is a tile-matching full motion video puzzle game originally developed by Geffen Records and published by Jasmine Multimedia Publishing for Windows on September 13, 1994. It was later ported to the Atari Jaguar CD by High Voltage Software in 1995, where it was included along with Blue Lightning as one of the pack-in games for the peripheral when it launched. It is the first entry in the series of the same name.
In Vid Grid, players have to solve a sliding puzzle. However, unlike traditional sliding puzzles which require the player to manipulate and sequence numbered tiles (usually 1 through 15) or reassemble a still graphic, in Vid Grid the jumbled tiles make-up the moving image of a music video.
Conceived by Geffen executive Norman Beil and produced in conjunction with Jasmine Multimedia as a joint-venture, the game was one of the first titles to use Microsoft's Video for Windows multimedia framework, which allowed to play and encode digital video up to a maximum resolution of 320x240 pixels.
Vid Grid was well received upon its original release on PC and has sold 100,000 copies as of April 8, 1995. The Jaguar CD version also garnered positive reception and was praised for the gameplay. Due to the critical and commercial success of the original game, two spin-offs were released in 1995, with each one featuring a distinctive thematic and selection of music videos respectively.