![]() ![]() ![]() Go back to the controls above the elevator, and rotate until you hear a cowbell sound. Return to the entrance, and note more symbols. This time, rotate the Fortress until you hear a Clink sound. Press the orange button, and return to the Fortress entrance. Do this until you hear the exhaust sound (1 of 4 sounds). Move the left lever up, then the right for a short time. When it lowers, go to the controls that are on top of the elevator. Press the middle button and quickly exit the elevator onto the to floor. Press the top arrow and go to that floor. Pull the lever so that the openings on the circles face you, then go up, close the stairs, and enter the elevator. Go to the back of the Fortress, press the button, and go down the stairs. Face the throne and press the panel to the right for the Red Page. Take the right path, and face the throne. When the gear opens up, go to the large gear, and enter the Mechanical Age. If you need to reset the puzzle, pull the right lever. Pull the middle lever twice, then hold the left one until the middle number reads 2. Press the red button, flip the Marker Switch, and enter the Clock Tower. Spin the wheels ( Small- Hours, Large- Minutes) until the Clock says 2:40. Go up the elevator, and note the key behind it (2:40 and 2,2,1). Of course, they're tons of other early CD-ROM games you'll remember.Rotate the map until it stops on the gears, then enter the secret passage (see Start). Not great at all, but everyone wanted to play it since it was removed from store shelves at Toys 'R' Us in 1993 when some senate members (who probably never played it) proclaimed the game was "shameful", "ultra-violent", "sick", and "disgusting". The main gameplay is switching cameras to detect criminals, making it a kind of bad memory game with B-actors. Night Trap was first released for Sega CD in 1992 and it wasn't until 1994 the DOS version came to the market. It wil be more remembered for the excellent 'dark noir' atmosphere than for its gameplay. It contained high-res graphics (well, for its time), FMV-movies and digital speech by famous actors as Dennis Hopper and Grace Jones. Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller is yet another adventure game (but this time third-person) that took advantage of the CD-ROM technology. The intro has a great homage to the original Zork games (showing text and cursor as in the original), but the game didn't age too well, mainly due to a clumsy interface. With the arrival of CD-ROM technology Infocom and Activision decided to remake the classic Zork text-adventure into a graphical point-and-click adventure, resulting in Return to Zork. The sequel Buried in Time (1995), that came on 3 CD's, was even better and is still one of the best adventure games I ever played. It didn't look as great and a major deal of the screen was used for the interface, but the game offered a fascinating and involving story about time travel. I always felt The Journeyman Project was a game with more personality and a better storyline than Myst and The 7th Guest. It offers varied gameplay elements (though they all involve pointing a cursor and shooting in one way or another) and the game offered a great example of how to use the Star Wars franchise in a cool way in a video game. Star Wars: Rebel Assault, an on-rail shooter, was my favorite first CD-ROM game and is one of the few first CD-ROM games I still like. Nowadays it's just a slow-moving adventure with badly integrated video clips, but upon the time of release it won several awards for best CD-ROM game and it helped popularizing CD-ROM technology, just like Myst did. Back in the days, former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates even called The 7th Guest "the new standard in interactive entertainment". ![]() Not as impressive as Myst, but impressive for its days nonetheless. Myst remained the best-selling PC game until 2002 (then it was surpassed by The Sims). I liked just walking around the mysterious island (I actually had no clue what to do and never actually finished the game) to admire the graphics and mysterious music. Despite just being a picture slideshow, it was the most beautiful game I had ever seen at that time. ![]() Myst is the game that triggered the popularity of CD-ROM games in the 90s. ![]()
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