June 12, 2014 Eric Swain External Sources The Size and Wisdom of ‘Myst’ For this week’s PopMatter’s column I look back 21 years to the original CD-ROM game: Myst. The opening sentence of that piece was the main thought running through my head during my recent playthrough of the 1993 adventure game. “Myst is a lot smaller than I remember.” I realize that time takes a toll on memory and we look back on things with rose tinted glasses. But it wasn’t a difference in the measure of quality I was taken aback by, but the size of the game world. | more
