Myst
Released in 1993 on PC, adventure.
- Year: 1993
- Platform: PC
- Genre: Adventure
- Developer: Cyan
Overview
Robyn and Rand Miller island of linking books became the killer application that sold CD-ROM drives, the best selling PC game of the 1990s until The Sims passed it. Its still, puzzle box atmosphere defined the multimedia era ambition.
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