10 Classic Video Games That Play Horribly Today
5. Myst (PC)
Myst was the best selling PC game of all time for a whopping 12 years, but anyone who visits its puzzle-filled island today might struggle to get their head around that.
The first-person adventure game pioneered CD-ROM technology in an age of floppy disk drives, and in 1993, grainy FMV footage and 640x480 images of winding staircases was all it took to wow the PC-owning masses.
Myst's puzzles were often convoluted and nonsensical and its interface was like a Microsoft Office tutorial, but that didn't matter back then. Those CD-ROM-powered feats gave gamers bragging rights over their friends, and the game felt like it was ushering adventuring gaming towards a brave new future.
Unfortunately, that brave new future was limbo. Adventure gaming died a death when it attempted to take its first steps into 3D, and titles like Myst are partly to blame. Story had always set the genre apart, and Myst had no interest in telling one, seeking only to dazzle with its media capabilities and confuse with its context-lacking puzzles.
With technology having moved on in leaps and bounds since '93, Myst is weighed and measured on its playabilty, and on this front it barely qualifies as a game.