"...just taking my Craftsman 7/8th inch wrench, with a lifetime guarantee..." As kids, me and my brother used to quote that line all the time. We thought the mention of a lifetime guarantee in that context was out of nowhere and hilariously random. For real though, Myst is an amazing game.
Oh man, this takes me back. 1993, 7th grade, playing this with a buddy of mine on a school computer in our free time, bringing our "Myst journals" with us. Even one of our teachers was into the game as well, and played it with us every now and then. Good times...
This is basically my story with Myst too except for I played at home and even my dad was into it lol Thats the thing about this game it was one of the first games that appealed to lots of people.. kids and adults and people who usually weren't into games and stuff like that.
I must have watched this a hundred times back when I was 12 or so when Myst was all the rage. It was included on a demo disk that came along with one of those 400 page manuals that retailed for like 200 bux w/ a title like "MAKE YOUR OWN 3D GAMES" with all kinds of fluorescent colors on the cover and claw scratches and what not. Man, I fantasized about owning this game for years. :D When I finally got it, Riven was just around the corner for release. Myst was a huge part of my youth. It's fun to watch this again. :D
Same here! I used to think creating worlds like that was so cool. Hard to explain how ahead of it's time Myst actually was to the youngsters... such a great atmosphere, too.
It wasn't until later that I understood the concepts that were presented in this making-of. (I used to watch this, but only for the visuals, and the different ideas like the blue-screen segment for Atrus' desk) I didn't understand enough English (I was 3-4) at the time.
Ah man this is so nostalgic. When I was 5 I could'nt work anything out or even get off Myst island so I used to watch this video over and over looking for a clue and gawping at the images of the other places and trying to work it out lol. I got there in the end I think when I was ten ...
I just finished the VR version of this game on my Quest about a week ago, I was born in 2000 so this game was before my time but I still fell in love with it and I want to play the sequels. I've also never seen this documentary so this will be interesting to watch
30 years (plus a few days) since the release of Myst on the Macintosh. How times have changed but also how much passion and risk it took to bring this game, the "CD-ROM killer app", to literally the world.
As a CGI artist myself, I'd be so grateful for living in a time where making videogames is so easy that indie games launch every day... but then again, people in the future will think our current technology is crap and so hard to manage lol.
I have such fond memories of this game, this one and Riven. I didn't even really try to solve the puzzles. I just loved walking around in such a lovely world and fiddling with stuff, and listening to the ambient music. Then it seems like video games all turned into gore-fests and shoot-em-up, and I lost interest.
Go try world machine. It is a magical piece of software that can generate grayscale maps that you can use wherever you want. On their website they have a guide to transfer it to unity. No reason not to give it a try!
What really would make you a true Myst fan is the fact that you could recognize all of the locations and puzzles they've made for the game in those sketches they show at the beginning. :D
I know this was uploaded over 3 years ago, but yes, I can tell you....per the description, that this is in fact the documentary that came with the original game. I probably watched it a dozen times, and I was blown away. When this game launched, it was amazing...my computer could barely handle it. To this day, it still holds up as a genre-defining moment in gaming.
Yep, seconded. I had the game back in the day and remember this doc as well. I haven't watched it since the 1990s, and it's a real nostalgia bomb seeing it again here.
Machiner6 To be honest, I can't remember lol. I think I just found something I liked from the interwebs. But I love everything water, and tropical, and Caribbean.
I wish some of my models and textures came out like this! So ahead of it's time. Much, much respect to Cyan. (I bought Obduction and it's pretty good... but you can't beat the atmosphere of Myst!)
I wish it were in better quality, but this was on a CD-ROM in 1995, and was quite high tech at the time. And to think, the whole game was built in HyperCard. That's like building an interactive game in PowerPoint. BTW, this why 'click to not die' actions in modern games are still called Quicktime Events.
There was no such mechanic as a quick time event in games like Myst. Quick time events are called such because you need to press buttons with quick timing in order to have the movie-like sequence in your game proceed. The term "Quick time events" itself originates from Shenmue. It _did_ always entertain me that it was also called "Quicktime" like the media decoding tech of the early 90s, but they are definitely separate things with separate origins.
Check your dates, the copyright at the end of the doc says 1993, which means this was probably filmed and produced in '92. Yeah, we're only talking a couple of years, but not sure where you got '95 from.
Really interesting to see the making of this, I think it's amazing how detailed they made this game considering the hardware/software that was available at that time. I know I used a 3D software once on my Amiga 1200, was probably the most frustrating thing I did in a while. Guess they were used to that at that time :P
I didn't even realize who that person was until after I had played through and accidentally gotten the bad ending with Sirrus. XD (That part of the video just seemed out-of-the-blue for me when I watched it as a kid.)
When I was little, I had no idea how to get past Myst Island, so I would watch this documentary on the CD over and over again just to check out the screenshots of the other Ages.
I'm sure I got at least one (very minor) clue as to how to solve certain puzzles by watching the "making of" video before I finished the game - still took me years to finish the thing, when I was a kid. Took me best part of another year to *realise* I'd finished it, because it lets you keep playing after you've solved everything and Atrus mentions needing you later! I actually bought the paperback hint book (no internet walkthroughs back then) *after* I'd beaten the game, before finally accepting there was nothing else to do... :-P
Lol same, I believe the only worlds I got to were the forest/swamp area and the area with the octagonal buildings surrounded by ocean. Can’t believe after all these years (1994) that I still remember them so vividly.
I remember watching this when I was young. I got into some Hypercard developing and I remember getting StrataVision from a magazine CD. I did start to make some similar games. Times were good.
It is amazing how talented Robyn Miller is in his music. Did he compose that all himself? The music in Myst is something I believe a genius made. When i found this documentary on the game disc itself, i thought i had this very special secret look into the making of Myst. it made the game all that more interesting to me again knowing this team of talented people made this game. The sound effects and music part of the video was the most interesting part. And what i want to know, is why this guy blowing bubbles in a Toilet bowl? Was there no sink available!? 8:44 : )
I remember one thing from this, having watched it once like 25 years ago. My memory was them hitting a tuning fork in a toilet and slowing it down so it sounded like a church bell. Well, close enough. Funny how memory works.
i totally did something similar after watching this, i rigged a bunch of mikkie d's straws together and then rigged a mic with like 3 or 4 extensions so i could get it in to my bathroom and recorded the sound of bubbles in my toilet in a program called WinDat that came with my packardbell. I made a whole bunch of cool sound effects that summer i was like 13 or 14.
My childhoooood. My childhood......... also this is such an old 90s quicktime video. I laugh b/c i'm about the millers age now. LOL. I wonder if the two of them ever think...woah. We did that for fun...who knew it would blew up like it did.
Same here, dude. I think it was because, at the time, there wasn't a game so immersive AND so isolating. It was just you. The only other live bodies were trapped in books. It just played up a sort of primal response to being alone in a strange, potentially unfriendly world with tons of questions and no answers.
This looks amazing for its time before all the fancy schmancy OpenGL/Direct3D nonsense, and this is coming from a guy who grew up in the 90s (born 1982)!
A gem of an upload! Can anyone tell what the funny voice in 7:24 is saying? I finally got the last part, which seems to be "your belt fell off sir," but I've never been able to decipher the first part! Thank you!
@9:56 When i was little, i thought he said "that was the closest you can get." Now I realize what he actually said was "what was the question again?" Mind = blown.
Well with Sega Saturn you held L and R Buttons with A to access the making of. I have turned up empty on a search for the Playstation method. Try doing a combo of buttons. Could be possible that the PSX version was not included with it.
David Bollman 1:21:52 interview with Rand Miller from Cyan Worlds.postet from saladbar15."Mysterium 2011-Interview with Rand Miller from Cyan Worlds" !!!!!
Jyo Lemos we used to play myst in the beginning 1990.the original myst.after the cd got lost,we tryed steam and found out,"steam"sucks.nothing worked !!!
Jyo Lemos I don't think RealMyst ME is as good as it seems. It might just be me being a die-hard fan since the first version came out, but I just don't like the ultra-high-res graphics and how they contrast with the videos. If I was designer, I would've asked the Miller brothers or Guy Sprung and Brian Wrench to re-shoot Sirrus + Achenar's scenes. The audio on those clips is still as compressed as ever.
+TGO TheGamingOdysee Actually theres a lot of games that are made using a Mac. Either for texture and mapping development as well as modeling and sound engineering.
if children today tried to play myst they would throw temper tantrums. kids today only know the new age systems and are pretty ignorant to how video games started
"...just taking my Craftsman 7/8th inch wrench, with a lifetime guarantee..."
As kids, me and my brother used to quote that line all the time. We thought the mention of a lifetime guarantee in that context was out of nowhere and hilariously random.
For real though, Myst is an amazing game.
FenPhoenix Glad I'm not the only one that felt that way lol
FenPhoenix I did the same thing.
A man should be proud when he makes a quality purchase. He clearly was.
I’m so thankful my dad found this game. I was literally raised watching and playing the Myst series and it seriously has made me who I am
What a time. Quadra 610 8mb ram, 25mhz 68040, Myst and Journeyman Project were my first cd rom games. 21 years ago.
Ben Wolfram Oooh. Hot stuff back then. Bet that Quadra could play Marathon pretty well.
Oh man, this takes me back. 1993, 7th grade, playing this with a buddy of mine on a school computer in our free time, bringing our "Myst journals" with us. Even one of our teachers was into the game as well, and played it with us every now and then. Good times...
This is basically my story with Myst too except for I played at home and even my dad was into it lol Thats the thing about this game it was one of the first games that appealed to lots of people.. kids and adults and people who usually weren't into games and stuff like that.
I must have watched this a hundred times back when I was 12 or so when Myst was all the rage. It was included on a demo disk that came along with one of those 400 page manuals that retailed for like 200 bux w/ a title like "MAKE YOUR OWN 3D GAMES" with all kinds of fluorescent colors on the cover and claw scratches and what not.
Man, I fantasized about owning this game for years. :D When I finally got it, Riven was just around the corner for release. Myst was a huge part of my youth. It's fun to watch this again. :D
I also had the same disc, I believe. Watched this over and over!
Same here! I used to think creating worlds like that was so cool. Hard to explain how ahead of it's time Myst actually was to the youngsters... such a great atmosphere, too.
Was probably even younger back then and understood almost no English. Still watched it many times, I was soo fascinated by what they achieved!!!
It wasn't until later that I understood the concepts that were presented in this making-of. (I used to watch this, but only for the visuals, and the different ideas like the blue-screen segment for Atrus' desk) I didn't understand enough English (I was 3-4) at the time.
Ah man this is so nostalgic. When I was 5 I could'nt work anything out or even get off Myst island so I used to watch this video over and over looking for a clue and gawping at the images of the other places and trying to work it out lol. I got there in the end I think when I was ten ...
This video fills me with nostalgia. I need to run to play all the Myst saga now that I've partially forgotten the puzzles.
still workin on Uru
I just finished the VR version of this game on my Quest about a week ago, I was born in 2000 so this game was before my time but I still fell in love with it and I want to play the sequels. I've also never seen this documentary so this will be interesting to watch
This game had a very creepy atmosphere for me that I didn’t get from Riven and I was disappointed.
yeah it really gives you that nagging feeling that something is very wrong with the place
really? I found Riven creepier
Just the opening alone is nostalgic...not to mention the rest. Love it.
I really love that E-MU Proteus MPS. Really great digital synthesizer. You can spend literally hours playing with the presets and programming.
Myst is to video games as Metropolis is to movies.
Nice.
Thats a fantastic analogy!
30 years (plus a few days) since the release of Myst on the Macintosh. How times have changed but also how much passion and risk it took to bring this game, the "CD-ROM killer app", to literally the world.
As a CGI artist myself, I'd be so grateful for living in a time where making videogames is so easy that indie games launch every day... but then again, people in the future will think our current technology is crap and so hard to manage lol.
I have such fond memories of this game, this one and Riven. I didn't even really try to solve the puzzles. I just loved walking around in such a lovely world and fiddling with stuff, and listening to the ambient music. Then it seems like video games all turned into gore-fests and shoot-em-up, and I lost interest.
That's ridiculous.
I agree, Unfortunately they did. Lol
I'm watching this because I want to build my own Myst-like age with the same grayscale image techniques, except extruded in Unity.
Go try world machine. It is a magical piece of software that can generate grayscale maps that you can use wherever you want. On their website they have a guide to transfer it to unity. No reason not to give it a try!
What really would make you a true Myst fan is the fact that you could recognize all of the locations and puzzles they've made for the game in those sketches they show at the beginning. :D
I know this was uploaded over 3 years ago, but yes, I can tell you....per the description, that this is in fact the documentary that came with the original game. I probably watched it a dozen times, and I was blown away. When this game launched, it was amazing...my computer could barely handle it. To this day, it still holds up as a genre-defining moment in gaming.
Yep, seconded. I had the game back in the day and remember this doc as well. I haven't watched it since the 1990s, and it's a real nostalgia bomb seeing it again here.
+Strazman That's a nice avatar you have, what's it from?
Machiner6
To be honest, I can't remember lol. I think I just found something I liked from the interwebs. But I love everything water, and tropical, and Caribbean.
I wish some of my models and textures came out like this! So ahead of it's time. Much, much respect to Cyan. (I bought Obduction and it's pretty good... but you can't beat the atmosphere of Myst!)
I wish it were in better quality, but this was on a CD-ROM in 1995, and was quite high tech at the time.
And to think, the whole game was built in HyperCard. That's like building an interactive game in PowerPoint.
BTW, this why 'click to not die' actions in modern games are still called Quicktime Events.
There was no such mechanic as a quick time event in games like Myst. Quick time events are called such because you need to press buttons with quick timing in order to have the movie-like sequence in your game proceed. The term "Quick time events" itself originates from Shenmue.
It _did_ always entertain me that it was also called "Quicktime" like the media decoding tech of the early 90s, but they are definitely separate things with separate origins.
Check your dates, the copyright at the end of the doc says 1993, which means this was probably filmed and produced in '92. Yeah, we're only talking a couple of years, but not sure where you got '95 from.
Really interesting to see the making of this, I think it's amazing how detailed they made this game considering the hardware/software that was available at that time. I know I used a 3D software once on my Amiga 1200, was probably the most frustrating thing I did in a while. Guess they were used to that at that time :P
"Sirrus...? Achenar...."
Holy crap this made me happy. Thanks for uploading!
I didn't even realize who that person was until after I had played through and accidentally gotten the bad ending with Sirrus. XD (That part of the video just seemed out-of-the-blue for me when I watched it as a kid.)
Big thanks for uploading this. It's awesome seeing the guys behind this great game.
When I was little, I had no idea how to get past Myst Island, so I would watch this documentary on the CD over and over again just to check out the screenshots of the other Ages.
I'm sure I got at least one (very minor) clue as to how to solve certain puzzles by watching the "making of" video before I finished the game - still took me years to finish the thing, when I was a kid. Took me best part of another year to *realise* I'd finished it, because it lets you keep playing after you've solved everything and Atrus mentions needing you later! I actually bought the paperback hint book (no internet walkthroughs back then) *after* I'd beaten the game, before finally accepting there was nothing else to do... :-P
Lol same, I believe the only worlds I got to were the forest/swamp area and the area with the octagonal buildings surrounded by ocean. Can’t believe after all these years (1994) that I still remember them so vividly.
Ah good old times..... love Myst
a pioneer of open world games. The Miller brothers created a masterpiece, even for today's standards.
I remember watching this when I was young. I got into some Hypercard developing and I remember getting StrataVision from a magazine CD. I did start to make some similar games. Times were good.
They were indeed. I used to make silly little Hypercard games with my friends in middle school. I miss those days sometimes.
It is amazing how talented Robyn Miller is in his music. Did he compose that all himself? The music in Myst is something I believe a genius made.
When i found this documentary on the game disc itself, i thought i had this very special secret look into the making of Myst. it made the game all that more interesting to me again knowing this team of talented people made this game. The sound effects and music part of the video was the most interesting part. And what i want to know, is why this guy blowing bubbles in a Toilet bowl? Was there no sink available!? 8:44 : )
So awesome. @__@ This game has a deep, solid place in my heart. Thanks for uploading this!
I remember one thing from this, having watched it once like 25 years ago. My memory was them hitting a tuning fork in a toilet and slowing it down so it sounded like a church bell. Well, close enough. Funny how memory works.
i totally did something similar after watching this, i rigged a bunch of mikkie d's straws together and then rigged a mic with like 3 or 4 extensions so i could get it in to my bathroom and recorded the sound of bubbles in my toilet in a program called WinDat that came with my packardbell. I made a whole bunch of cool sound effects that summer i was like 13 or 14.
Absolute legends
I watched a very small, low-pixel version of this documentary in Mr Rabbit's hydrant in The Manhole.
i totally remember this back in the 1992 when I bought my first CD-ROM so I could play MYST. :)
10:58
Richard what are you working on
Ah Nothing
This game is part of my life..
I'm working on an HL2 Source recreation of Myst Island, and the first step is to make the island's terrain. Dad got the base from what was shown here.
My childhoooood. My childhood......... also this is such an old 90s quicktime video. I laugh b/c i'm about the millers age now. LOL. I wonder if the two of them ever think...woah. We did that for fun...who knew it would blew up like it did.
(C) 1993 Brøderbund and Cyan, Inc. All Rights Reserved
glad this is uploaded, and yes, this is the right vid from the CD
Great game myst I miss it vary much so used to play it the time with my dad
idk why but when i was a kid this game use to scare the shit outta me
Same here, dude. I think it was because, at the time, there wasn't a game so immersive AND so isolating. It was just you. The only other live bodies were trapped in books. It just played up a sort of primal response to being alone in a strange, potentially unfriendly world with tons of questions and no answers.
Precisely. Scared me too, and for these reasons.
This looks amazing for its time before all the fancy schmancy OpenGL/Direct3D nonsense, and this is coming from a guy who grew up in the 90s (born 1982)!
1984 here! grew up thinking the same about this game too
there's no need for opengl or direct3d since these are prerendered images
'82 as well, and I agree 100%. I lost many hours to this masterpiece.
A gem of an upload! Can anyone tell what the funny voice in 7:24 is saying? I finally got the last part, which seems to be "your belt fell off sir," but I've never been able to decipher the first part! Thank you!
Oh my! I just miss the good ol' times!
mystical
I watched this countless times in my early teens trying to figure out what software they used to design the game.
whoops, they left a typo in the final credits screen: "Premeire is a trademark of Adobe, Inc." ;-)
@9:56 When i was little, i thought he said "that was the closest you can get." Now I realize what he actually said was "what was the question again?" Mind = blown.
Myst was the OG indie title.
For those of you who might be interested, Myst artist Chuck Carter is launching a new game www.kickstarter.com/projects/1368459285/zed/description
144p we meet again.
+Winter Bourne I got this video off of a CD-ROM from 1991. Don't expect much.
*1993, but yeah, we're lucky it exists at all.
10:57
The original Prince of Persia!!
:D
The best game ever.
13:19 "Premeire" XD
Aww that nice 8-bit sound
thx for uploading. the german version was translated by an (as i thought as a kid) horrible womans voice, so im glad to hear the original voices. ^^
60mhz packard bell with 4mb of ram 480mb hard drive and a 2x cd rom i was ready to do work on myst when i was 13 or 14
Adaptive palletes!?!? Holy-freakin'-crap!! :O
Grazie tante Mandrake!
It's only equal is Riven.
They did not have ArcGIS at the time.
yeah maaan, ooooh my god haha uginaga taka manchingawawa dingi ma dingi ma yer ma is gooooooooood
Ahead of its time. totaly
I heard this documentary was included on the Sega Saturn port by inputting a cheat code. Is it the same for the PlayStation 1 port?
I believe so. I still have my Sega Saturn with Myst and I had Riven on Playstation.
But can you watch this documentary on the PlayStation 1 like you can on the Sega Saturn, and if so how?
Well with Sega Saturn you held L and R Buttons with A to access the making of. I have turned up empty on a search for the Playstation method. Try doing a combo of buttons. Could be possible that the PSX version was not included with it.
Jared R is it better quality version on saturn?
Now I have to go pick up real myst off steam to see how much it changed
Its good, real time 3d kinda changes how I feel the game, as walking around is cool and the easter eggs (I wont spoil it) are cool
David Bollman 1:21:52 interview with Rand Miller from Cyan Worlds.postet from saladbar15."Mysterium 2011-Interview with Rand Miller from Cyan Worlds" !!!!!
RealMyst Masterpiece Edition is even better. I recommend using GOG though. Much more freedom than Steam.
Jyo Lemos we used to play myst in the beginning 1990.the original myst.after the cd got lost,we tryed steam and found out,"steam"sucks.nothing worked !!!
Jyo Lemos
I don't think RealMyst ME is as good as it seems. It might just be me being a die-hard fan since the first version came out, but I just don't like the ultra-high-res graphics and how they contrast with the videos. If I was designer, I would've asked the Miller brothers or Guy Sprung and Brian Wrench to re-shoot Sirrus + Achenar's scenes. The audio on those clips is still as compressed as ever.
shorah, friend
Makes me wonder what the poly count is. Oh the simple days called the 90s.
144p?
Yeah man I got this off of a CD from 1991, it was meant to be played on a monitor that needed routine degaussing. 1080p wasn't happening
Yep, this is the documentary; 114.32%...! =)
missed playing the darn thing. (and watch the video over and over again)
Atètu mamā:- atètu mamā matito!
Heh heh heh...
I'm a Mac and I was used to create Myst
+TGO TheGamingOdysee Actually theres a lot of games that are made using a Mac. Either for texture and mapping development as well as modeling and sound engineering.
And people say macs can't play games... heads up. MYST was made on one!
Well, thanks for the upload, but 144p?
This is the original video from 1993 don't expect 1080p
interesting shit
2024 +
if children today tried to play myst they would throw temper tantrums. kids today only know the new age systems and are pretty ignorant to how video games started
why holy freakin crap?
Haha. 80K.