I remembered a few bits and pieces but had to look it up. I do remember that this was in the epilogue of the Myst novel. Did a book report on it and i quoted the lines at the end of my presentation. Sniff!
I remember watching my Dad play this game, he would write things down in the notebook part of the manual and I watched on with awe as he solved the secrets of Myst...
"I realized the moment I fell into the fissure that the book would not be destroyed as I had planned. It continued falling into that starry expanse, of which I had only a fleeting glimpse. I have tried to speculate where it might have landed, but I must admit such conjecture is futile. Still, questions about whose hands might one day hold my Myst book are unsettling to me. I know my apprehensions might never be allayed, and so I close, realizing that perhaps the ending has not yet been written"
He has the most awsome voice. Atrus, for me, is a bit of a child roll model. Passive, compassionate, ernest.. Loved that character so much :) More games please! ^_^
Love that intro music. I remember I struggled to understand what he was saying as a child - I thought he said "fingertips" instead of "fleeting glimpse" - but I learned several new words simultaneously! Really sets the mood for the game, and influenced me so much that when I go walking alone in nature I always have that curious adventurer mindset, always looking for clues and whatnot!
Questo Montisanto Yeah I've been haunted (in a good way) with the music and atmosphere my whole life after seeing my big brothers play Myst as a child. I know what you mean about walking in nature. It's so disappointing because you never find that hidden entrance! Not sober at least.
Great game/ book. I read "The book of Atrus" which fills in some of the gaps that the game leaves. The book ends with this intro. Excellent intro, its soo mysterious.
Man I loved how they connected Myst to Riven. The fact that it was actually you, the player, who fell into the fissure at the end of Riven. You are the one who gets linked away so your former self can begin at the beginning. Man such storytelling. I love these games. I have all 5 plus Uru and every now and then enjoy a walk through the ages. I still have my original note pad with all the notes from the first game in my desk. The memories from this game are jsut endless.
Yes... I first played this game when I was but a little child. At that time Myst was a recent creation. In any event, the "dentist chair" in the observatory would fright me off of my computer... In fact, the game is still creepy at times.
I could see them doing a film that takes place in the game's universe. It'd be somewhere in the story line, rather than what the player does since there isn't too much drama the player goes through personally.
@SonOfFurzehatt The closest you will likely ever see Myst (the first game) itself adapted to the 'screen' would be LOST actually, which is in some respects Myst: The TV show. Updated for the 21st century of course (instead of 19th for Myst) and with a whole group of strangers. And minus linking books and ages. I still watching to see how the Myst Movie team makes out. Here's hoping they enjoy great success.
Apple Macintosh Performa 630 was my first Computer that i can call my own.Myst was my first Game and was the first game on CD of the World too. Great Graphic, Sound and an very creative Story.
Haha, when we were kids, we thought Atrus there was the stranger, and that he was an astronaut... that was until we actually met him... like 7 YEARS LATER. This game was so hard.
Oh gosh does this ever bring back a lot of memories. I wish that my old myst CD would still play properly on my computer. Perhaps I should go and buy RealMyst sometime...Or just get it for the ps3. Either way, this game is fantastic.
Cyan has been working on a Myst movie for years... It was originally going to start at the beginning of the story, with Myst the Book of Ti'ana, but that didn't work out, but apparently a Myst movie is still a possibility that they are trying accomplish.
I used to hate the intro as well. Maybe because the computer I used for it was a piece of junk; for some reason, whenever I played Myst, it automatically turned the volume up to full. No wonder I was scared.
I too fall into a starry expanse.. But unlike him, my heart yearns to find out the last page. I have never beaten it, for I am not of him. But what is the beginning? That page was from the middle, and I hunger for the first pages.. If only I were to find a way to read those first few pages.. I would be content.
if it wasn't for Gehn, the MYST series wouldn't have started! while on riven, Atrus got away from Gehn by jumping INTO the star fissure (gehn was trying to get the myst book.), and using a linking book to get away. the myst book, rather then being destroyed, floated through the fissure and eventually ended up on earth, and viola! the game series started.
With cult games it's always the opening, or how you get transported into these worlds. The original Bioshock and Half Life 1 or Myst, I remember it was the very first minutes of these games I realized it'll be a future classic.
There was a project to make a film of the Book of Ti'ana, but it was sabotaged from the inside a year or so ago. The production blog, which was at mystmovie dott com, has been taken down, but you can see most of it at the Internet Archive.
Right, because Myst is all about following physical laws. Since it's SO possible to link between an infinite number of worlds by writing with special ink on special pages. And touch paintings to make them swirl and open doorways.
It's crazy that every sound effect I heard in this game made me chicken of it even though my Dad helped me. Then again, the same goes for reality. I even resisted going to worship at church, and look at me now, I keep my ears open all the time! Must be growing up. I just hate being surrounded by incredibly loud sound, although I scared MYSELF by thinking that even though there was no sound in one part of a movie, I thought there was by cranking it way up. Fool I was, a scared little fool.
oh, well you might try reading the note on the ground near the library. and go into the room to your left when you start out. if you get really stuck try a walkthrough.
I was joking that the film for Myst alone would need to be 40 hours long, because it takes so long for the Stranger to solve the puzzles. What would make for a more interesting film would be some of the back-story.
The easiest way I find to get the old Myst games working is to use a Virtual PC with Windows 98 on it. Original Myst and Riven both work just fine without any complications.
@ansonii48 This is the original; even the version from realMyst isn't that much different, really (changed up the credits though.) It's amazing how good the graphics were, even though it was at a pretty low resolution (which is why it's perfect for youtube :P)
I agree with you on most accounts, although I was under a different impression for the source of the rift. As I understand it, Gehn wrote the Age of Riven, or at least wrote *in* it... but he wasn't the best writer. The fissure opened due to contradictions in his writing. At the beginning of Riven, and the end of Myst, Atrus is seen writing in the book of Riven, to attempt to keep it stable.
Athough U may not know this, but just before Riven came out, a defunct game company, "Rocket Science" produced a dream-oriented game called "OBSIDIAN", and placed a MYST joke in one of its levels. Namely, the falling Myst book, and an actor quote: "Bring me the blue pages...", both on a robot TV, AKA "vidbot". ;) I think Vidbots may come in handy for certain industries where personnel can't physically come there, ever.
I saw it in a gamestop, and i think it had a camera + journal like Mysts 4 + 5, but my lil' sister refused to let me use it because hers-formerly mine-is the only one we got in the house. PS: The only Myst things I truly want aren't the games of 1-3, but a fancy-shmancy journal from the "Ages of Myst" pack + a Squee doll from Exile masterpiece 2003, that's all.
Good old Games has a lot of old computer games in reworked so they are compatible with Vista and XP. You can get Riven, ReaMyst, and Masterpiece Myst for 6-10USD.
Maybe. But it could also be a movie about the backstory of Myst. There's novels out there, and I'd say they're more than welcome for a dramatization in film.
@zeldafangirl109 I don't know if this will work on an old disc since I have a 10th anniversary edition, but reinstalling quicktime to the version on the disc is how I got mine to work. For some reason newer version of quicktime just leaves the screen blank.
Usually playing this requires uninstalling Quicktime from your computer and reinstalling it using the outdated version that comes with the game. And also running the game in Windows 95 compatibility mode. Most Myst forums contain plenty of threads on how to get the game to play on newer XP/Vista machines.
I would like to see a film of Myst, but I do wonder how it would translate to screen. Would it be shot from the first person? In which case, it's too much like the game. If we see the stranger, it ruins his/her mystery. Also, the film would need to be 40 hours long.
I was in a crazy mood at the time I wrote that, so I have no clue! You'll have to go back in time two years [relative to today] and ask me then. I don't think I was talking about the game itself, however.
Hey there, I was having the same problem. It DOES work, though it might take some time to figure out what to do. Be sure to have it set to run in 256 colors and disable visual themes and see if that works. If that still doesn't do it for you just ask Google, there are a bunch of websites that tell you what to do.
I pray to get this for Nintendo DS, but what I can't figure out is how exactly it compares to its 3D counterpart, because it has Rime and the original Rolodex of pictures at once! I don't understand. I also hope to get Real Myst for CD, as Gametap held a suckish version covered with bugs.
This game was out before I could read, yet I coudln't help but be drawn to it. Sadly, because I couldn't read, I didn't really get anywhere. Despite being able to read today, however, I still haven't beaten it yet. RealMyst has a tendency to crash, and the original disk's version (which I do own) software is too primitive to run on my computer. Unfortunately, by the time I had my own job, my own computer, etc the other disks weren't made anymore. I may never know how the rest of the story goes.
In a more direct answer to your problems... A. The starry expanse within the fissure is not meant to be outer space. It is meant to be an unexplained, non-detailed expanse almost -between- linking itself. It is a portal written into one of the books through a change in the writing by Atrus. It does have an oxygen atmosphere, or so it would seem, and gravity as well. B. The "planets" (ages) are scattered throughout the infinite universe... they revolve around different stars.
i want to play the game still!!!! this game was like...my childhood. of course i didn't understand what the hell was going on but i love it dearly. MYST. to bad nobody knows what i am talking about when i mention it.
What software did you use to record this? Did you run it in 256 colors? I'm trying to record a 256 color program but am having trouble finding one. The one's I have tried screw up the color resolution...
I'm currently writing a Myst film. I'm hoping to be done writing it sometime before 2014. The Stranger will be seen except for the face (so back of the head, hands, lower body, etc.)
Hmmm.... Sounds right. It's been way too long since I read the books, I'm gonna have to steal- [ahem] BORROW them from my cousin again... I thought that it was written in so that Atrus could... do that stuff that would spoil the plot if I said it... but it could be that he just used it to his advantage when it showed up. Yeah, I'm gonna have to go reread stuff.
Can anyone please tell me what he says after this? "Still questions "_______" might one day hold my MYST book are unsaidly to be..." I have never been able to figure this out... thank you so much if you know!
The DS version is pretty good, and it does have Rime in it, but for some reason there a lot of bugs in it. It gets kinda annoying, since I've actually had to restart my DS because the game froze up on me.
Show of hands: how many of us were able to recite Atrus' lines as they were playing?
I remembered a few bits and pieces but had to look it up. I do remember that this was in the epilogue of the Myst novel. Did a book report on it and i quoted the lines at the end of my presentation. Sniff!
*raises hand*
Parts of it, especially the last bit.
🤚
Word for word and with the same emotion put into it.
I remember watching my Dad play this game, he would write things down in the notebook part of the manual and I watched on with awe as he solved the secrets of Myst...
The internet killed puzzle games. If you ever want a real challenge... unplug your router and play a Myst game :3
@@MeepChangeling We would spend weeks stuck until something clicked in your brain or just find something you didn't see in the game. Fun times.
"I realized the moment I fell into the fissure that the book would not be destroyed as I had planned. It continued falling into that starry expanse, of which I had only a fleeting glimpse. I have tried to speculate where it might have landed, but I must admit such conjecture is futile. Still, questions about whose hands might one day hold my Myst book are unsettling to me. I know my apprehensions might never be allayed, and so I close, realizing that perhaps the ending has not yet been written"
To me, this intro is only beaten by the remake's trailer narration. That one still gives me chills.
He has the most awsome voice. Atrus, for me, is a bit of a child roll model. Passive, compassionate, ernest.. Loved that character so much :)
More games please! ^_^
Love that intro music. I remember I struggled to understand what he was saying as a child - I thought he said "fingertips" instead of "fleeting glimpse" - but I learned several new words simultaneously! Really sets the mood for the game, and influenced me so much that when I go walking alone in nature I always have that curious adventurer mindset, always looking for clues and whatnot!
Questo Montisanto Yeah I've been haunted (in a good way) with the music and atmosphere my whole life after seeing my big brothers play Myst as a child. I know what you mean about walking in nature. It's so disappointing because you never find that hidden entrance! Not sober at least.
When I was a kid, playing for the first time, this opening monologue was what made me realize that a game can tell a story as well as any film.
Great game/ book. I read "The book of Atrus" which fills in some of the gaps that the game leaves. The book ends with this intro. Excellent intro, its soo mysterious.
This is powerful. I'm in awe of his voice and language.
It's interesting that even though the first game revolved around Myst, the first age you see is Riven, through the fissure.
greatest game opening of all time, ive played some crazy ass games and this openings still wins
I have developed an entirely new philosophy for my fantasy book thanks to this intro :)
Man I loved how they connected Myst to Riven. The fact that it was actually you, the player, who fell into the fissure at the end of Riven. You are the one who gets linked away so your former self can begin at the beginning. Man such storytelling. I love these games. I have all 5 plus Uru and every now and then enjoy a walk through the ages. I still have my original note pad with all the notes from the first game in my desk. The memories from this game are jsut endless.
I remember being young, my parents got a windows 95, I had no idea what to do in this game yet it was still awesome!
Thank you so much for that.
HUGE nostalgia factor there...and god I love listening to those opening lines.
Man I love this so much
brings back so many good memories
That first part when the MYST letters appear....Epic.
Right? I still get CHILLS! :D
Yes... I first played this game when I was but a little child. At that time Myst was a recent creation. In any event, the "dentist chair" in the observatory would fright me off of my computer... In fact, the game is still creepy at times.
I never thought of that. But it makes sense now that you mention it. Cool, love to see a fellow Myst player
I could see them doing a film that takes place in the game's universe. It'd be somewhere in the story line, rather than what the player does since there isn't too much drama the player goes through personally.
@SonOfFurzehatt
The closest you will likely ever see Myst (the first game) itself adapted to the 'screen' would be LOST actually, which is in some respects Myst: The TV show. Updated for the 21st century of course (instead of 19th for Myst) and with a whole group of strangers. And minus linking books and ages.
I still watching to see how the Myst Movie team makes out. Here's hoping they enjoy great success.
Apple Macintosh Performa 630 was my first Computer that i can call my own.Myst was my first Game and was the first game on CD of the World too.
Great Graphic, Sound and an very creative Story.
Haha, when we were kids, we thought Atrus there was the stranger, and that he was an astronaut... that was until we actually met him... like 7 YEARS LATER. This game was so hard.
This game was and is absolutely brilliant.
Same here! I was about ten; no idea what I was doing, but the eerie mechanicality of the place kept drawing me in.
Good times.
This gives me goosebumps :D
i thought i was weird cuz the music scared me and still does...the whole game felt creepy but i was hooked...don't remember much about it now though..
Oh gosh does this ever bring back a lot of memories. I wish that my old myst CD would still play properly on my computer. Perhaps I should go and buy RealMyst sometime...Or just get it for the ps3. Either way, this game is fantastic.
Cyan has been working on a Myst movie for years... It was originally going to start at the beginning of the story, with Myst the Book of Ti'ana, but that didn't work out, but apparently a Myst movie is still a possibility that they are trying accomplish.
i know exactly what you mean. i was around 9 years old i think. the music always gave me the creeps and indeed that cyan intro...
this game used to creep me out a little when i was a kid, but none the less loved playing it
I used to hate the intro as well. Maybe because the computer I used for it was a piece of junk; for some reason, whenever I played Myst, it automatically turned the volume up to full. No wonder I was scared.
i remember when this first hit the stores. i thought it was the most brilliant thing ever made.
I think you're right. I would like to see a film of the back-story involving Atrus and his criminally insane family.
I too fall into a starry expanse.. But unlike him, my heart yearns to find out the last page. I have never beaten it, for I am not of him. But what is the beginning? That page was from the middle, and I hunger for the first pages.. If only I were to find a way to read those first few pages.. I would be content.
if it wasn't for Gehn, the MYST series wouldn't have started!
while on riven, Atrus got away from Gehn by jumping INTO the star fissure (gehn was trying to get the myst book.), and using a linking book to get away. the myst book, rather then being destroyed, floated through the fissure and eventually ended up on earth, and viola! the game series started.
With cult games it's always the opening, or how you get transported into these worlds. The original Bioshock and Half Life 1 or Myst, I remember it was the very first minutes of these games I realized it'll be a future classic.
There was a project to make a film of the Book of Ti'ana, but it was sabotaged from the inside a year or so ago. The production blog, which was at mystmovie dott com, has been taken down, but you can see most of it at the Internet Archive.
Right, because Myst is all about following physical laws. Since it's SO possible to link between an infinite number of worlds by writing with special ink on special pages. And touch paintings to make them swirl and open doorways.
It's crazy that every sound effect I heard in this game made me chicken of it even though my Dad helped me. Then again, the same goes for reality. I even resisted going to worship at church, and look at me now, I keep my ears open all the time! Must be growing up. I just hate being surrounded by incredibly loud sound, although I scared MYSELF by thinking that even though there was no sound in one part of a movie, I thought there was by cranking it way up. Fool I was, a scared little fool.
oh, well you might try reading the note on the ground near the library. and go into the room to your left when you start out. if you get really stuck try a walkthrough.
I was joking that the film for Myst alone would need to be 40 hours long, because it takes so long for the Stranger to solve the puzzles.
What would make for a more interesting film would be some of the back-story.
The easiest way I find to get the old Myst games working is to use a Virtual PC with Windows 98 on it. Original Myst and Riven both work just fine without any complications.
Even though my computer didn't play the videos smoothly, i thought it was the coolest video game at the time
One of the best french games
This era of gaming is my favorite. Then one when games tried to do 3d well and cd's started to become standard.
@ansonii48 This is the original; even the version from realMyst isn't that much different, really (changed up the credits though.) It's amazing how good the graphics were, even though it was at a pretty low resolution (which is why it's perfect for youtube :P)
I agree with you on most accounts, although I was under a different impression for the source of the rift. As I understand it, Gehn wrote the Age of Riven, or at least wrote *in* it... but he wasn't the best writer. The fissure opened due to contradictions in his writing. At the beginning of Riven, and the end of Myst, Atrus is seen writing in the book of Riven, to attempt to keep it stable.
Athough U may not know this, but just before Riven came out, a defunct game company, "Rocket Science" produced a dream-oriented game called "OBSIDIAN", and placed a MYST joke in one of its levels. Namely, the falling Myst book, and an actor quote: "Bring me the blue pages...", both on a robot TV, AKA "vidbot". ;) I think Vidbots may come in handy for certain industries where personnel can't physically come there, ever.
Thank you. Ah memories.
I saw it in a gamestop, and i think it had a camera + journal like Mysts 4 + 5, but my lil' sister refused to let me use it because hers-formerly mine-is the only one we got in the house. PS: The only Myst things I truly want aren't the games of 1-3, but a fancy-shmancy journal from the "Ages of Myst" pack + a Squee doll from Exile masterpiece 2003, that's all.
Good old Games has a lot of old computer games in reworked so they are compatible with Vista and XP. You can get Riven, ReaMyst, and Masterpiece Myst for 6-10USD.
When I was younger I never comprehended anything that guy said except "The ending had not yet been written" XD
Maybe. But it could also be a movie about the backstory of Myst. There's novels out there, and I'd say they're more than welcome for a dramatization in film.
@zeldafangirl109
I don't know if this will work on an old disc since I have a 10th anniversary edition, but reinstalling quicktime to the version on the disc is how I got mine to work. For some reason newer version of quicktime just leaves the screen blank.
Usually playing this requires uninstalling Quicktime from your computer and reinstalling it using the outdated version that comes with the game. And also running the game in Windows 95 compatibility mode.
Most Myst forums contain plenty of threads on how to get the game to play on newer XP/Vista machines.
I would like to see a film of Myst, but I do wonder how it would translate to screen. Would it be shot from the first person? In which case, it's too much like the game. If we see the stranger, it ruins his/her mystery.
Also, the film would need to be 40 hours long.
I was in a crazy mood at the time I wrote that, so I have no clue! You'll have to go back in time two years [relative to today] and ask me then. I don't think I was talking about the game itself, however.
I want to play this game... where can I download it???
Hey there, I was having the same problem. It DOES work, though it might take some time to figure out what to do. Be sure to have it set to run in 256 colors and disable visual themes and see if that works. If that still doesn't do it for you just ask Google, there are a bunch of websites that tell you what to do.
I pray to get this for Nintendo DS, but what I can't figure out is how exactly it compares to its 3D counterpart, because it has Rime and the original Rolodex of pictures at once! I don't understand. I also hope to get Real Myst for CD, as Gametap held a suckish version covered with bugs.
Clever, clever.
This game was out before I could read, yet I coudln't help but be drawn to it. Sadly, because I couldn't read, I didn't really get anywhere. Despite being able to read today, however, I still haven't beaten it yet. RealMyst has a tendency to crash, and the original disk's version (which I do own) software is too primitive to run on my computer.
Unfortunately, by the time I had my own job, my own computer, etc the other disks weren't made anymore. I may never know how the rest of the story goes.
Take a look at gog.com, the MYST games have recently been remastered for newer operating systems, and they should work if you get them from there.
Steam has it as well. If you wait for a sale, it's usually 75% off
I noticied comparing the intros between Myst, and Realmyst, the drama effect is kinda sucky in the newer one, anyone notice that?
Yeah it kinda sounds like they re-did the lines in the intro
the beginning of something great...
i can get started by getting onto the island but idk what to do
EPIC!
Oh, the nostalgia.
In a more direct answer to your problems...
A. The starry expanse within the fissure is not meant to be outer space. It is meant to be an unexplained, non-detailed expanse almost -between- linking itself. It is a portal written into one of the books through a change in the writing by Atrus. It does have an oxygen atmosphere, or so it would seem, and gravity as well. B. The "planets" (ages) are scattered throughout the infinite universe... they revolve around different stars.
Man, this opening makes a lot more sense if you played sequel.
@TheLegendaryJames
so this is the sense of Puzzle games isn't?
But after 18(!) Years still one of my favorite Game
i want to play the game still!!!!
this game was like...my childhood.
of course i didn't understand what the hell was going on but i love it dearly.
MYST.
to bad nobody knows what i am talking about when i mention it.
I'm trying to write a script for the G-man at the end of a Myst mod I want to make, where most of his dialogue reflects this intro's.
I believe they were remaking Myst for the DS, which would be cool
What software did you use to record this?
Did you run it in 256 colors? I'm trying to record a 256 color program but am having trouble finding one. The one's I have tried screw up the color resolution...
An actually funny youtube joke that I have not seen before? This is a first, indeed.
Ah, the good old days when people made an amazing, best-selling game with just 8 people on the staff...
and on a Macintosh no less. They used Stratavision 3D to do all the rendering of the game.
Thank you SO much!! :)
I'm currently writing a Myst film. I'm hoping to be done writing it sometime before 2014. The Stranger will be seen except for the face (so back of the head, hands, lower body, etc.)
OutOfTheAether r u done yet?
So did you ever finish? It's been 4 years.
What a terrible idea.
do you just get a black screen or can you see a book?
brings back the memories.. ahh windows 95. so slow u were.
It’s crazy to think even this TH-cam video was post exactly half my life ago, let alone when this game released. I’m 34 haha. I’m so olddd. 😂
Love this game!
"question about who;s hands might hold my Myst book are unseteling."
Hmmm.... Sounds right. It's been way too long since I read the books, I'm gonna have to steal- [ahem] BORROW them from my cousin again...
I thought that it was written in so that Atrus could... do that stuff that would spoil the plot if I said it... but it could be that he just used it to his advantage when it showed up.
Yeah, I'm gonna have to go reread stuff.
Can anyone please tell me what he says after this? "Still questions "_______" might one day hold my MYST book are unsaidly to be..."
I have never been able to figure this out... thank you so much if you know!
Check Out My Rendition of the MYST theme!
Finished MYST for the first time in 6 years today. So, So rewarding. I have riven, tomorrow is a new day, eh?
So, what would you do if a book with moving pictures fell out of the sky and landed at your feet?
Where did the MYST book come from to begin with?
Check out my rendition of the Myst theme!
@TheLegendaryJames How old are you?! The game came out in 1993, that's not long ago! T_T I feel so old!
SUCH AN AWESOME GAME
I've played it to the ending, and once you know it, you can never play it again seriously. Do you want to know?
The DS version is pretty good, and it does have Rime in it, but for some reason there a lot of bugs in it. It gets kinda annoying, since I've actually had to restart my DS because the game froze up on me.
you can get it for iphone/ipod touch
@DavittFinol That is all pretty recent... Are you still in 8th grade...?
I can't be the only one who taught myself to write D'ni after the original Myst came out....right.....
And so the beginning has been written.
Christopher Lambert has not yet mastered the concept of the book report, it seems.
That comment hast just made my night.