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Sept. 24, 1993: Beautiful ‘Myst’ Ushers In Era of CD-ROM Gaming

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According to this,

http://mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16869&sid=5...

Myst was created on a Mac, and the first release platform was Mac. The game engine was Apple's Hypercard. The then-stunning 3D graphics were designed using Strata Studio Pro (never heard of it); this product it's still alive as Strata 3D CX:

http://www.strata.com

Later versions were modeled in 3DSMax.

Bought the iphone version a week ago, to kill some time on a long plane trip. I knew the game by reputation but never played it. I wasn't disappointed. The graphics are a bit dated but the game looks fun and challenging (haven't got very far yet)

Myst on the iTunes store: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftwa...

I find it hilarious that I am in the process of re-creating pages of notes when I know full well that an exact replica of these same notes sit somewhere in my mother's basement. fifteen years is just about the right amount of time where I have a sense of intense familiarity as I wander about solving the puzzles, but is long enough ago that I don't remember the solutions instantly.

This is going to end up a Myst reminiscence thread, but what's so wrong with that...?

Myst was the first game my mum really got into. I tried introducing her to a few of the games I played (as she showed interest) but nothing grabbed her until the beautiful scenery, bizarre puzzles and entrancing world of Myst. I still clearly remember that eerie feeling you got of being the only person there, while this whole universe existed around you...

Myst was great because it strove for organic puzzles which the 7th guest and their ilk didn't quite achieve. I think that they achieved it in Riven (Myst 2) which was by far the best game in the series, and I would consider to be one of the best games of all time.

Long live Hypercard. My first exposure (Macintosh SE)

Check out this unique yet subversive 1994 press release from Rand and Robyn Miller:

http://www.wordyard.com/dmz/mail.html

That was what I used to build my first point and click game in. misty eyes

It was so much like javascript and html are today

What about The Seventh Guest? Beat Myst by five months. Just sayin.

I liked them both but Myst was better in my eyes. Myst had a more cohesive storyline instead of a bunch of disjoint puzzles held together buy a weak story. This is not to say that The 7th Guest was not groundbreaking and great for it's time because it was.

I also enjoyed 7th guest a heckuva lot more. Then again, I was 10.

Myst was one of the first computer games I played as a kid and I still remember being in awe of it, so much so that my cousin and I dreamed up this scheme for a similar game called "Omega". I still have hundreds of pages of notes and drawings for the environments, puzzles, characters, etc.

I loved myst! Does anybody know if there is a way to play it (or the even better sequel, Riven) on modern computers?

Still to me one of the best games ever created...

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