Myst

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Myst
System(s): Sega Saturn, PlayStation Portable
Publisher: Acclaim Entertainment (US) Sunsoft (Europe) Sunsoft (Japan) Wooyoung System (South Korea) Sega (Japan)
Developer: Cyan Worlds Sunsoft
Sound driver: SCSP (1 track)
Peripherals supported: Shuttle Mouse Saturn Backup Memory
Genre: Adventure
Number of players: 1
Official in-game languages: 日本語 English Deutsch Français Español 中文 한국어
Release Date RRP Code JP 1994-11-22 ¥7,800 (8,034)7,800e T-1501G US 1995-08-09 T-8101H EU 1995 MK81081-50 DE 1995 MK81081-50 PT 199x UK 1995-10-06 £44.9944.99 MK81081-50 PL 1996 179zł179 BR 1996-03 R$64.9964.99 192056 KR 1996 T-26801H-08 TW 1996 T-26801H-16 JP 2006-06-15 ¥3,800 (3,990)3,800 (3,990) ULJM-05094
Non-Sega versions 3DO Amiga (AGA) CD-i Jaguar CD Macintosh PlayStation Windows PC

Myst (ミスト) is a groundbreaking adventure game developed by Cyan Worlds and ported to the Sega Saturn by Sunsoft in 1994 as a Japanese launch title.

Acclaim Entertainment had also planned for Myst to be a launch title in the US, but was seemingly caught-off guard by Sega releasing the console early.

Gameplay

Myst was notable upon its original PC release for several key reasons. First, it was distributed on CD-ROM - one of the first games to do use the medium effectively. Rather than attempt to render 3D scenes in real-time, Myst relies on pre-rendered scenery making it look leagues ahead of its competition at the time.

Myst's point-and-click interface seen in the PC game does not translate to home console versions, so the Saturn copy is seen as an inferior product as a result. It claims, however, to be compatible with the Shuttle Mouse, even in Europe, where the peripheral was not released.

History

Legacy

Myst was followed by Riven: The Sequel to Myst, which also saw a release on the Sega Saturn.

A supposedly 99% complete prototype of Myst exists for the Mega LD platform. It is said that a LaserActive hardware bug which led to inconsistent behavior of screen transitions caused the game to be canceled. A Sega Mega-CD version by Sunsoft was also in development, and featured at Summer CES 1994 (with a release date of January 1995) before also being cancelled.

Sega published the PlayStation Portable port (handled by Midway) in Japan.

Versions

Localised names

Also known as

Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	Myst	Myst
English (US)	Myst	Myst
Japanese	ミスト	Myst
Korean	미스트
Chinese (Traditional; Taiwan)	密斯特

Magazine articles

Main article: Myst/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in VideoGames (US) #79: "August 1995" (1995-0x-xx)
also published in:

• GamePro (US) #73: "August 1995" (1995-xx-xx)
• Fusion (US) #0102: "Volume 1, Number 2: September 1995" (1995-0x-xx)

Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1994-01: "Extra issue of Beep! MegaDrive" (1994-11-17)

Physical scans

Saturn version

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source

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Sega Retro Average

Publication Version Score CD Consoles (FR) 40 Computer & Video Games (UK) 30 Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 63 Fun Generation (DE) 40 Fusion (US) 100 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 95 Joypad (FR) 87 MAN!AC (DE) NTSC-J 73 MAN!AC (DE) PAL 73 Maximum (UK) 25 Mega Force (FR) PAL 87 Mega Fun (DE) PAL 82 Magazina Igrushek (RU) 90 Mean Machines Sega (UK) PAL 82 Player One (FR) 95 Power Up! (UK) 90 Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J 72 Saturn+ (UK) PAL 68 Sega Magazine (UK) PAL 88 Sega Power (UK) PAL 78 Sega Pro (UK) NTSC 67 Świat Gier Komputerowych (PL) 75 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 80 Todo Sega (ES) 82 Total Saturn (UK) PAL 75 VideoGames (US) NTSC-U 50

	73
Based on 26 reviews

Myst

Saturn, JP
Cover
Spinecard Disc Manual

Saturn, US
Cover
Disc Manual

Saturn, EU
Cover
Disc

Saturn, DE
Cover
Disc

Saturn, PT

Saturn, BR
Cover
Manual

Saturn, KR
Cover
Spinecard

Saturn, TW
Cover

PlayStation Portable version

PlayStation Portable, JP
Cover

Unreleased versions

Myst
System(s): Sega Mega-CD, Sega Mega LD
Publisher: Sunsoft
Planned release date(s): 1995-01, 1995-07, 1996
Status of prototype(s): Two Mega LD prototypes found

Promotional material

• 

  Preview in LA Express Vol. 12.

• 

  Same article, translated to English

Physical scans

Mega-CD version

Sega Retro Average
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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Digitiser (UK) 78

	78
Based on 1 review

Myst

Mega LD version

Product Code: PEASJ1034 (Japan) / PEASU1034 (USA)

Mega LD, 02-110
Disc Front (unofficial) Back (unofficial)

Mega LD, 02-111
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Mega LD, Prelimary box art
Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	634,628,400		CD-ROM (EU)	MK81081-50 V1.100
✔	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	584,751,888	1994-10-25	CD-ROM (JP)	T-1501G V1.050
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	584,751,888		CD-ROM (JP)	T-1501G (Alt) V1.100
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	601,032,432		CD-ROM (KR)	T-26801H-08 V1.000
✔	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	588,171,696		CD-ROM (US)	T-8101H V1.001
?	CRC32 d5c31fb9 MD5 dcf04cf2865af16a87d2159615c9bdfa SHA-1 6c6381d4a93ec330f828bdd102ff46ed85c9c010	876,707,840		UMD (EU)
?	CRC32 82b1e6c9 MD5 e351970fbc6784216dcde268b16c71a4 SHA-1 967488afb34359af89b2bad2289ef22235631f10	1,552,384,000		UMD (EU)	(v1.02)
?	CRC32 1355c734 MD5 45923ac5c3d4b99dc099ab78b12eef09 SHA-1 6b68c3611bb6a5075f57e7c0f95d5c8e3e3122f3	881,426,432		UMD (JP)

External links

• Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): PlayStation Portable
• Official website on Sega.jp (Japanese)
• Myst on PlayStation.com: JP