Myst and Riven were my favs! Riven was, what, like 5 CD’s I think? These worlds were beautiful and I daydreamed of wandering in them. The puzzles were quite challenging yet so satisfying when you figured each one out! Be honest, how often would you get stuck and just start rapid-clicking the entire screen hoping you’d trigger something??
I’ll still bust out a pen and paper when I’m figuring out puzzles on some older games. There’s an assortment of papers near my coffee table that look like the scribblings of a mad man
OkY I love that game and I had to do the same thing handwritten notes with drawings (and I suck at drawing🤣)
This is one of my all time favorite games. I played it a few times through the years and it still stand. And I still have to take notes 🤣
I remember my mom and I raced to see who could complete Myst first and kept our notes hidden from one another unless we were both absolutely stuck on a puzzle and agreed to exchange hints. She managed to finish the game a day before I did, and I took that personally, because she made me go to bed when I was getting really close to solving the final puzzle.
I managed to beat Riven almost two weeks before she did. Ranks right up there with beating my dad at chess under the “Memories I savor, but my parents conveniently forgot about” category.
My first introduction to gaming was sitting next to my dad watching him click through MYST logging everything into his notebook, now my kids are about the age I was at that time. Really nice hit of nostalgia this provided, thanks!
It’s the 1940s, 1970s, 1990s etc. for decades. Why would it work any other way for the first in a century?
What do you say to the first decade of the current century?
What OP means and what noone here apparently ever heard of, is the late 20th century (1901-2000, although I doubt any of you would understand how that works, so instead just have a link and downvote me for telling the truth):
I remember playing Myst when it came out but I was too young to actually figure out any of the puzzles, I just wandered around the island. Loved the game anyway!
So much cleaner than mine! My friend and I played it for 2 straight days on my Sega Saturn in my barracks room while stationed in Germany in 1996. People would come in and end up sitting down and trying to solve a puzzle with us. Still cherish that memory. Riven was good, but not the same.
I loved the look of riven, and the trams, but I was shit at those map sections and I LOVED them.
Also I loved that the number system was just 4 characters (and a blank), but assembled in a 5×5 grid, with one axis being flipped 90 degrees, using a weird base 25 notation.
File this under ‘questions I wish I asked my dad before he passed’. He got me into the game when I was maybe 7. I just KNOW he beat it and had madman notes like this. I wish something this mundane had reminded me years ago.
I should go back and beat this fucking game.
Anyone remember “Real” Myst? It was Myst but rendered in real time on I think Voodoo’s Glide. My FPS was absolute garbage on a GeForce 2 Ultra so I never played it unfortunately
Bittersweet memories, my Dad LOVED Myst, and I found his huge stash of printed off help guides and written notes as we were clearing his house when he passed last December.
The late 1900s
I feel attacked… thank you for making me feel old, haha
I still have the maps I drew out for Dungeon Master, also on grid paper.
Old but gold!
I’ve got a binder with a whole bunch of Morrowind info in it someplace … including a map of all the daedric weapons and armor I had found
Ok you’re not allowed to say “the late 1900s.”
Myst and Riven were my favs! Riven was, what, like 5 CD’s I think? These worlds were beautiful and I daydreamed of wandering in them. The puzzles were quite challenging yet so satisfying when you figured each one out! Be honest, how often would you get stuck and just start rapid-clicking the entire screen hoping you’d trigger something??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm1TNKChwVw
HOW OLD ARE YOU
Ah great! assuming you played Riven as well?
Myst is in a weird limbo for me (i dont know if i love It or hate It)
Wizardry on the other hand is a curious IP, the older games were ok but It truly shined for me when It shifted to JRPG
I got that reference.
That’s from Riven, not Myst. [Ask me how I know!](https://imgur.com/ThpueUI)
I’ll still bust out a pen and paper when I’m figuring out puzzles on some older games. There’s an assortment of papers near my coffee table that look like the scribblings of a mad man
Late 1900s would be something around 1890, what’s your secret?
The “1900’s” is the dumbest term. Half the population of the world was alive before 2000. It’s not a mystical time and place that nobody remembers.
MYST was a very unique game! Are there any modern equivalents?
I guess superluminal was kind of one, but it doesn’t feel like it had the same quality.
That’s a good solid field manual! Well done!
When the kids were a bit younger I was telling them something that happened in the 90s…
Their reply “you mean the 19’s? ” hurt my heart a lot
1908? 1909? I think you meant the late 1990s…
“The late 1900s”
OP is a vampire, confirmed.
The days of handwritten notes and graph paper. I don’t get to enjoy those as much anymore these days. Cool you still have them.
Back when pen and paper were a boon to gaming
OkY I love that game and I had to do the same thing handwritten notes with drawings (and I suck at drawing🤣)
This is one of my all time favorite games. I played it a few times through the years and it still stand. And I still have to take notes 🤣
I remember my mom and I raced to see who could complete Myst first and kept our notes hidden from one another unless we were both absolutely stuck on a puzzle and agreed to exchange hints. She managed to finish the game a day before I did, and I took that personally, because she made me go to bed when I was getting really close to solving the final puzzle.
I managed to beat Riven almost two weeks before she did. Ranks right up there with beating my dad at chess under the “Memories I savor, but my parents conveniently forgot about” category.
My first introduction to gaming was sitting next to my dad watching him click through MYST logging everything into his notebook, now my kids are about the age I was at that time. Really nice hit of nostalgia this provided, thanks!
Oh boy.
You should see my Zork Book!
Good times 🙂
I raise you my handwritten Myst notes from late September.
https://imgur.com/a/7NymKx0
Something about jotting hints down on graph paper is such a treasure.
Lmao people in this comment section are so dumb.
It’s the 1940s, 1970s, 1990s etc. for decades. Why would it work any other way for the first in a century?
What do you say to the first decade of the current century?
What OP means and what noone here apparently ever heard of, is the late 20th century (1901-2000, although I doubt any of you would understand how that works, so instead just have a link and downvote me for telling the truth):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century
I remember playing Myst when it came out but I was too young to actually figure out any of the puzzles, I just wandered around the island. Loved the game anyway!
Core memory unlocked.
So much cleaner than mine! My friend and I played it for 2 straight days on my Sega Saturn in my barracks room while stationed in Germany in 1996. People would come in and end up sitting down and trying to solve a puzzle with us. Still cherish that memory. Riven was good, but not the same.
Is it nostalgia day or something? I don’t want to feel old.
BLUE PAGES!!!
Oh no you tried to solve riven I’m so sorry.
I loved the look of riven, and the trams, but I was shit at those map sections and I LOVED them.
Also I loved that the number system was just 4 characters (and a blank), but assembled in a 5×5 grid, with one axis being flipped 90 degrees, using a weird base 25 notation.
File this under ‘questions I wish I asked my dad before he passed’. He got me into the game when I was maybe 7. I just KNOW he beat it and had madman notes like this. I wish something this mundane had reminded me years ago.
I should go back and beat this fucking game.
I tried to explain tiis game to some youngens the other day. I still have dreams about this game
I have a notebook with old notes from playing Shivers that I’m sure to anyone else looks like some full on psycho scribbles.
You stop that right now.
FYI- 1900’s either refers to 1800-1899 OR 1900-1909. Just saying. But I do have those same notes from 30 yrs ago tho 😉
Anyone remember “Real” Myst? It was Myst but rendered in real time on I think Voodoo’s Glide. My FPS was absolute garbage on a GeForce 2 Ultra so I never played it unfortunately
This post is one of the very few that I’ve ever actually laughed out loud to on this site after 8 years. Im crying so hard at that title LOL
That fucking piano
“Late 1900s” shook me to my core
These notes look like they are from a century ago.
1990s
Bittersweet memories, my Dad LOVED Myst, and I found his huge stash of printed off help guides and written notes as we were clearing his house when he passed last December.