Posted on 10/18/2017 9:53:25 AM PDT by Allen In Texas Hill Country
As I was listening to the music from my 3,100 song library the music and sounds from MYST came up. It really brought back memories of playng the game. The game itself became a huge hit almost single handedly creating the video game industry and making the CD-ROM acceptable. When I played it in '93 I think I was on Windows 3.1 or maybe even DOS so the visual presentation was outta this world back in those days.
I still have the CD and one of the unique features of XP is that if the game is played/run XP will reformat the video to match the requirements of the game which is near 25 years old. But XP is another discussion. Since I have forgotten all the puzzles that have to be solved I'm toying with playing it again. But I sit at the computer too much as it is.
Anyone ever play Sudden Strike?
Damn, that was a while ago :)
Did a long time ago.
Enjoyed it, but got to the point were I just wanted to play, not puzzle
I did and enjoyed the puzzles (mostly). The music was exceptional.
I vaguely remember the name, but don’t recall playing it. I do remember playing Zork, which is probably the same time frame.
Indeed, all the versions of it.
I would love to see a completely new version of it which would allow real time walkthroughs (rather than the choppy advances via clicks), 360 pivot abilities (like in car interior adverts), and perhaps less puzzles (in order to allow just an adventurous jaunt into an imaginary world, finding neat things, etc).
Don’t really care about the war games. As a retired military type, had enough of real life for that.
I did enough Zork and related games before MYST. Tried it, but soon bogged down.
Did get the trilogy for my father, who did solve them all. I happened to wander into the room just as he finished, so got to see the final sequence. Bought him a MYST dagger as a reward.
Yeah, that was the first and last game I ever played. Graphics were ground breaking. I couldn’t get past the second or third puzzle, found it to be an enormous time-suck, and quit that stuff entirely. I found that FR was a much better way to spend my limited time ;>)
The video and sound quality was the best I'd ever seen, and I was amazed by it. I never "solved" the game, but I got pieces of it.
I remember it had to access the CDROM all the time, for each scene change. Back then, hard drives were what? 50MB? 100 MB? Something like that? And a big computer had 8 MB of RAM, IIRC, and a 50 MHz CPU.
I feel old.
Yes, and I loved it. I wish it were available to play on a windows 10 platform.
I think I might still have a MYST disk.
It is. GOG has just about every old game you would want. They actually re-engineer them a bit to make them work with modern systems.
https://www.gog.com/game/myst_masterpiece_edition
That game was Awesome.
So was F117 and Leisure Suit Larry
I still have MYST and its sequel Riven. Fun times.
Ahhh good memories!
The world needs more wholesome entertainment like this.
Before MYST was a series of games known as “King’s Quest.”
Similar puzzle solving program that was written on a level kids could enjoy, too. I can remember playing with my two daughters...working as a team to solve the problems....when we picked up a “rotten” tomato. It said “put me down or I’ll juice all over you!” We laughed about that for days.
As I said...good times. Good family memories.
I did. I never made it off the island. Now, I wonder whether there was a smoke monster.
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