Even being prerendered, it was an intensely impressive game for 1993.
And it’s not like they didn’t have plenty of problems to solve.
Here’s an interesting interview with founder Rand Miller about developing Myst and how they were barely able to make it work due to the limitations of CD drives.
Crash Bandicoot had similar issues. The PS1 was designed to load about a megabyte at a time, in (charitably) several seconds, while displaying a static screen. It had no support for streaming data. So what Naughty Dog did instead was tell the BIOS to load the minimum page size, in the background… three or four times per second. This was about a thousand times more disc operations per hour than the PS1 was designed for. But the game looked so damn good that Sony went, okay, guess we support this now.
Even being prerendered, it was an intensely impressive game for 1993.
And it’s not like they didn’t have plenty of problems to solve.
Here’s an interesting interview with founder Rand Miller about developing Myst and how they were barely able to make it work due to the limitations of CD drives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWX5B6cD4_4
Crash Bandicoot had similar issues. The PS1 was designed to load about a megabyte at a time, in (charitably) several seconds, while displaying a static screen. It had no support for streaming data. So what Naughty Dog did instead was tell the BIOS to load the minimum page size, in the background… three or four times per second. This was about a thousand times more disc operations per hour than the PS1 was designed for. But the game looked so damn good that Sony went, okay, guess we support this now.