The team at Rare had already established themselves as marque video game developers by the mid 90’s. Previous titles like Battletoads, Knight Lore and Sabre Wulf had earned the company’s founders Tim and Chris Stamper critical acclaim. Not happy to rest on their laurels when Nintendo bought up a majority share in the company in 1994. The brothers saw it as a chance to take on one of Nintendo’s characters and innovate on the medium. Continue reading
Myst achieved many milestones and records when it was released in September of 1993. Not only was it a revolution in video game graphics, featuring ground breaking 3D visuals in an era that still relied heavily on 2D sprites. It also stood as a rare title to have a MacOS release prior to its porting onto other platforms.