10/11/2011 9:14:58 PM

loved that game!

10/11/2011 9:16:46 PM

cyst: how does it work?

10/11/2011 9:16:56 PM

I loved/hated that game.

10/11/2011 9:17:00 PM

Protip: Sirrus and Achenar are both honest and lying simultaneously.

10/11/2011 9:20:59 PM

Myst is essentially a giant powerpoint display, (apple hypercard, actually) It's a combination of simple minigames and video cutscenes(prerendered and heavily compressed) played in quicktime. It was mostly limited by the read speed of the CD-ROM drive. It looked fantastic, but anyone who played it at the time knew it was nothing compared to the true complexity of 3d games like Doom.

[Edited on October 11, 2011 at 10:17 PM. Reason : .]

10/11/2011 10:15:46 PM

Quote :

"I loved/hated that game."

10/11/2011 10:23:47 PM

I loved/hated that game.

10/11/2011 10:24:27 PM

[Edited on October 11, 2011 at 10:26 PM. Reason : oops]

10/11/2011 10:25:46 PM

I got bored just looking at Myst screenshots, so I never wanted to play the game.

I got my adventure games from Lucasarts. Monkey Island, Full Throtle, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Loom, etc.

10/11/2011 10:31:19 PM

I read "Day of the Tentacle" as Day of the Testicle and was wondering wtf kind of kids' game is that

10/11/2011 10:33:00 PM

The Polecats are in trouble!

10/11/2011 10:33:14 PM

its amazing considering that OP's photo was considered "high res" back in the day.

10/11/2011 10:33:48 PM

It was rendered on Mac Quadras, probably cost a small fortune.

10/11/2011 10:36:38 PM

Circa 2000

10/11/2011 10:42:57 PM

Quote :

"It looked fantastic, but anyone who played it at the time knew it was nothing compared to the true complexity of 3d games like Doom."

Um, they were very different types of games.

Myst was far more complex structurally. You couldn't have made Myst using the Doom engine.

10/11/2011 11:08:45 PM

Myst is not an engine, it's a series of video clips and images.

[Edited on October 11, 2011 at 11:11 PM. Reason : apples to oranges, yes]

10/11/2011 11:10:04 PM

All I remember is I got Doom to work on my computer but Myst never would.

10/11/2011 11:30:36 PM

The 7th Guest was another pre-rendered game that I always enjoyed playing. I never had a copy of Myst to play...

10/12/2011 4:11:45 AM

The real myst looks pretty damn good for a 2000 game.

10/12/2011 4:27:15 AM

Especially by comparison:

10/12/2011 11:30:08 AM

Don't get stuck in Dunny, y'all.

10/12/2011 12:00:07 PM

God, I played the shit out of that game, and Riven

10/12/2011 12:04:35 PM

I remember Riven was one of the first games to bring my in-game progress to a dead halt.

Some of the "puzzles" were a bit on the ludicrous side, I recall.

10/12/2011 12:11:51 PM

yeah

<--- this person used the cheat codes the whole way through, after dealing with Myst, I knew following a step through guide was gonna take LONG enough, but I remember being relatively impressed with the graphics and story for a while... then puberty hit and I never played another computer game again ever. hahahahahhaha

10/12/2011 12:16:36 PM

Quote :

"I remember Riven was one of the first games to bring my in-game progress to a dead halt."

I was able to beat Myst, but Riven was damn near impossible without using hints.

10/12/2011 12:34:32 PM

games where you click on stuff suck.

10/12/2011 1:17:45 PM

phantasmagoria



the first time i ever said "eep!"

10/12/2011 1:43:11 PM

Quote :

"games where you click on stuff suck."

Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Loom, et al. would digress on this notion.

10/12/2011 6:46:59 PM

Shadowgate!!!

10/12/2011 6:50:26 PM

7th Guest / 11th Hour FTW.

I wish some company would re-make them as Wii Ware.

10/12/2011 6:50:29 PM

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"phantasmagoria "

ahhahhah I loved that stupid game
what was it, like 7 discs?

10/12/2011 7:19:28 PM

I would also like to add two series very near to my heart: Gabriel Knight, and Police Quest.

10/12/2011 7:21:55 PM

police quest! yes! I was trying so hard to remember the name of that game.

I never knew wtf was going on in Myst but I was very young.

Commanche 3D, Shadowgate and Mechwarrior were great

[Edited on October 12, 2011 at 8:08 PM. Reason : F-117A Nighthawk (would love to download this if possible ]

10/12/2011 8:07:37 PM

oh man i loved some full throttle.

10/12/2011 8:23:44 PM

system requirements for full throttle, per wikipedia

486DX/33 MHz processor
8 MB RAM
1 MB hard disk space
256 colour VGA

lol...does anyone know where i can find that game freeware?

10/12/2011 8:32:55 PM

http://btjunkie.org/search?q=full+throttle

you may or may not want to scroll on past "full throttle anal," but after this step im assuming you know how to play old DOS games on windows?

10/12/2011 8:34:56 PM

Problem with older games is they don't always play nice with new os systems. I ran into that when trying to install an older version of Sim City.

[Edited on October 12, 2011 at 8:37 PM. Reason : T]

10/12/2011 8:36:50 PM

http://www.amazon.com/Real-Myst-Pc/dp/B00004ZC7H

$130 on Amazon!

10/12/2011 8:38:36 PM

^^there are emulators for everything.

last time i played full throttle was in DOSbox on an ubuntu system.

10/12/2011 8:40:23 PM

^^^i'm actually not all that tech savvy. i'm running windows 7, is it fairly easy to get going?

10/12/2011 8:40:36 PM

10/12/2011 8:43:18 PM

Myst for iPhone looks awesome. Almost a gig though.

10/12/2011 8:44:22 PM

try http://www.gog.com, or http://www.direct2drive.com.

Or maybe download the Steam client. GoG has an awesome selection of classics though, and there's no DRM or anything stopping you from distributing your purchase as you wish.


[Edited on October 12, 2011 at 9:26 PM. Reason : punctuation]

10/12/2011 9:25:51 PM