Who remembers "Under a Killing Moon" which came on about 7 discs.
So before its time that game.
I remember that so well! I was 11 when that came out in 1994. It was amazing. A friend of mine was quite up to date with games back then, and just playing from a CD-ROM alone was magic. The speech and the video was mind-blowing.
It seems strange, but I remember thinking around 1987 or 1988 (I was five), when we got our first CD player, that maybe someday we can watch video from one of these discs. Little did I know that the CD was actually based on Laserdisc technology.
But back to CD-ROM, I
might have played
Myst and
Beneath a Steel Sky before
Under a Killing Moon, but while beautiful,
Myst was too complex for my 11 year old mind, and I seem to remember that our computer wouldn't run
Beneath a Steel Sky.
Under a Killing Moon was a lot easier - and worked! For some reason I can't remember ever playing
The 7th Guest, although the cover looked slightly familiar. Sierra brought out a puzzle game named
Shivers about a year later, that seems to have been largely based on the same idea. I had that, loved it and completed it.
Update: Just read
Shivers'
wiki page, and it actually states:
"Playing in first-person perspective, the game is remarkably similar in style to the Virgin Interactive/Trilobyte production, the popular 7th Guest, which introduced this style of gaming. Specifically, the numerous complex puzzles tied into the 7th Guest audience, which contributed in part to its popularity."
Sierra were in their prime then. I also remember spending a lot of time with
Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within and
Phantasmagoria, along with Origin stuff like
Ultima VIII: Pagan,
Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi,
Strike Commander, and Bullfrog's
Syndicate,
Theme Park and
Theme Hospital. Would be cool to try some of them again.