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Strong Museum Reveals Its 2024 World Video Game Hall of Fame Inductees

Time Extension about 9 days ago

Do you agree with the choices?Update : And there you have it! The Strong Museum has just revealed that Resident Evil, Asteroids, Myst, Ultima, and SimCity are this year's Hall of Fame inductees. The announcement was made yesterday at the museum, which is l …
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Sega TeraDrive Version Of Myst Forerunner 'The Manhole' Found And Preserved

Time Extension about 29 days ago

Developed by Rand and Robyn Miller.A hitherto unknown port of the 1988 adventure game The Manhole has been discovered and preserved, we can report.Created by Cyan, the company established by siblings Rand and Robyn Miller, the game was initially released o …
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Remake Of 'Myst' Sequel 'Riven' Gets Full Title And Screenshots

Time Extension about 5 months ago

Update: Confirmed for PC.Update : Cyan Worlds has released the full title for its upcoming Riven remake (thanks, Gematsu), along with some screenshots.It will be known as Riven: New Discoveries from the Lost D’ni Empire. It's coming to PC via Steam and G …

Nostalgia Meets Innovation: Top 6 Retro VR Games

Retromash about 6 months ago

Virtual Reality (VR) has taken gaming to new heights, but sometimes, a touch of nostalgia can make the experience even more enchanting. In this article, we will delve into five or six retro VR games that have seamlessly blended classic gameplay with cuttin …
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Anniversary: CD-ROM Trailblazer 'Myst' Turns 30 Today

Time Extension about 8 months ago

"Myst was approachable; it felt real".Cyan's Myst, the game which, alongside The 7th Guest, is credited by many as kickstarting the CD-ROM revolution on computers, turns 30 today.The game launched on Mac on September 24th, 1993, and would come to PC the fo …
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The Making Of: Obsidian, Rocket Science's Myst-Inspired Adventure

Time Extension about 8 months ago

"We thought this was going to go nuclear. And then it didn’t.".When the developer Rocket Science Games released the adventure game Obsidian for Windows and Mac computers back in 1997, it needed a miracle.After years of disappointing games, such as Cadill …
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Episode 110 - PC vs Mac! + Battle Of The Systems: Marathon vs Star Wars: Dark Forces

Pixel Gaiden Gaming Podcast about 10 months ago

We're back for Episode 110! In this episode Cody and Eric catch up on the news +  Battle Of The Systems: Marathon (Mac) vs Star Wars: Dark Forces (PC) We are doing news for the first monthly episode and then "catching up" later in the month.   Episode …
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Myst Is Getting An Unofficial Port For The Atari 2600

Time Extension about 11 months ago

The port we never knew we needed!Originally released for the Mac computer back in 1993, the graphic adventure Myst has since been ported to a bunch of other machines. However, one system we never expected to see ported to was the Atari 2600.Thanks to the e …
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deater demakes Myst for Atari 2600

A2Central.com about 11 months ago

Having previously ported Myst to the Apple II, Vince 'deater' Weaver is now developing an Atari 2600 demake. …
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Myst Dev Partners With Video Game History Foundation To Digitize Rare & Unseen Footage

Time Extension about 11 months ago

"...this is the way things should be!".The developer Cyan Worlds is teaming up with the Video Game History Foundation to digitize over one hundred hours of behind-the-scenes content from the making of its landmark graphic adventure series that began with t …

A Chronology of First CD-ROM Games

CD-ROM Journal about 11 months ago

I've seen many CD-ROM retrospectives that credit Myst and The 7th Guest (both 1993) as the "first CD-ROM game" or "first CD-ROM adventure". Other sources may cite games a year or two earlier, or into the 80s, but there's little consistency in the definitio …

PC Emulation • Uninstall QuickTime from Windows 98 SE

Vogons about 11 months ago

Does anyone know how to uninstall the version of QuickTime that comes with Myst from Windows 98 SE? Every time I try to it says that one of the files is in memory and cant be deleted. I'm really starting to lose my mind here!Statistics: Posted by Alevam-I …

Windows • Uninstall QuickTime in windows98se

Vogons about 11 months ago

I wanted to uninstall Myst from windows 98, and I was able to, but when I try to uninstall the version of QuickTime that came with it, it says that one of the files is located in memory and can’t be deleted! Does anyone have any advice?Statistics: Poste …
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The Rarest and Most Valuable Sega Saturn Games

Racketboy about 1 year ago

Presented by Racketboy and G to the Next Level The Sega Saturn is definitely one of the leading consoles among hardcore classic gamers. Its strong selection of unique and engaging 2D games keeps it relevant a decade after its premature demise. While many …

Spellgram

CD-ROM Journal about 2 years ago

While researching Japanese CD-ROM games, I bought a copy of Bandai Visual's 1995 CD-ROM catalogue[1]. Alongside a few other upcoming releases, I came across something interesting: a Mac game titled Spellgram: Rasen no Kokuin (?????? ?????), which I'd nev …

Macintosh dreams: Elemental Force and Moon

CD-ROM Journal about 2 years ago

This post is sponsored by wilkie and Luis H. Garcia, who graciously helped acquire this copy of Elemental Force, and Cariad Keigher, who provided the Mac Quadra I used for testing. The 90s were a weird time to be a Mac gamer. The Mac had a small and en …