When I was young in the early 90s and over at a friend's house, we were playing around on his family's brand new Gateway, equipped with Windows 95 and bundled with a copy of Myst. We played about 2 minutes, walking around on a bridge and admiring the view and then had to leave both the virtual world and his house to go some summer school programming classes where I made 3D squares and had them turn colors, and also made my own version of the game Snake. Cool!! Too bad I spent all my time drinking Mountain Dew and eating pretzel sticks and now, well...
Now in 2012, I received a copy of Myst in the handful of games shipped with my drunkenly bought 2nd 3DO (the first one died in the mail and I got a refund). I'm going to try and beat it by myself with no real life or Internet tips, trick, guides or cheats. I've never read about it besides a brief Wikipedia look last week while ruminating with coworkers about creating this project, and to see what systems it came out on; nothing beyond hearing from friends that you can beat it in 20 minutes. I'm guessing it will take me weeks because I am god-awful at puzzle games and my brain is basically pickled dirt at this point.
Fuck it, lets fire it up. Welcome to the REAL World, assholes!
The aforementioned 3DO idling sequence.
My shitty copy, trust me the disk is good lookin' though, look:
I guess one benefit of getting married is making an obtuse puzzle game together with the love of your life and stuff. (editors note: after I posted this I was trying to find something locked in my brain memory from the early 2000s about Sid Meier or Peter Molyneaux or someone standing in front of a terrible looking 3D planet, and he was talking about some future game but everyone on GameSpy was pissed and thought he was an idiot, well anyway, Rand and Robyn Miller are not husband and wife, or sisters, or brothers and sisters, but JUST BROTHERS. Sorry dudes.)
Now some pictures of the intro. I couldn't figure out what the guy was talking about as I was checking my e-mail, but it was something about a book, and he read it once, but now he wants to re-read it because he missed some pertinent information. Beats me. But, I get to read it with him? Or I am him?? I don't know. Basically, a crack opens up in space, there's a a black square (the book), a dude's body goes flying in after it. Time travel, space race, worm hole library.
Here's the book. That's my hand and I'm about to jump on that picture, hit A and dive into a wild world of no enemies and infinite piles of straight bullshit. A big "Fuck You" to Nintendo for ripping off this 3D hand/game selection style in Super Mario 64.
Hopefully in the next entry I actually play the game!
