Myst (game)

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The Myst box cover.

Myst was a pre-rendered adventure computer game, with a simple point-and-click interface. Developed by Cyan Productions (now Cyan Worlds) and published by Brøderbund, it was released on September 24, 1993 after roughly two years of work. Its tremendous success sparked four sequels, several re-releases and bundles, a complete re-make, three novels with more in development, a spin-off, and arguably an entire new genre of games heavily inspired from Myst's simplicity and style of puzzles, the solving of which is required in order to progress in, and complete, the game.

Myst also, however, very subtly introduced an entire story and history of a civilization to the player, the D'ni. The D'ni-related themes are much further developed in the first sequel, Riven, in the three novels and in the Uru spin-off game. In the fictional universe, the events of Myst take place in 1806 AD, or 9462 DE.

Myst was widely acclaimed for the then-unusual amount of graphical detail. It was one of the first games to ship on CD-ROM, rather than floppy disks, and actually came bundled with some CD-ROM drives of the time, which were still an unusual piece of hardware to have for in the home PC market.

The first Hypercard ^(Wikipedia) stack that eventually evolved into Myst was created April 21, 1991 9:54AM PST^[1]. The original version of Myst was released for the Macintosh and PC on September 24, 1993.

The game begins at and revolves around Myst Island. The Ages of Stoneship, Mechanical, Selenitic and Channelwood are featured (all four of which containing numerous clues to Myst Island's mystery), those of Haven and Spire are hinted at though not expanded upon until Myst IV: Revelation, and finally, K'veer is seen at the end, with the imprisoned Atrus sitting on a desk in it.

A port to Nintendo DS ^(Wikipedia) has been announced (Screenshots).

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