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The Seventh Guest
''The 7th Guest'' is an interactive movie puzzle adventure game, produced by Trilobyte and originally released by Virgin Interactive Entertainment in April 1993. It is one of the first computer video games to be released only on CD-ROM. ''The 7th Guest'' is a horror story told from the unfolding perspective of the player, as an amnesiac. The game received a great amount of press attention for making live action video clips a core part of its gameplay, for its unprecedented amount of pre-rendered 3D graphics, and for its adult content. In addition, the game was very successful, with over two million copies sold. It, alongside '' Myst'', is widely regarded as a killer app that accelerated the sales of CD-ROM drives. ''The 7th Guest'' has subsequently been re-released on Apple's app store for various systems such as the Mac. Bill Gates called ''The 7th Guest'' "the new standard in interactive entertainment". The game has since been ported in various formats to different systems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trilobyte (company)
Trilobyte is a video game developer, computer game developer founded in December 1990 by Graeme Devine and Rob Landeros, best known for ''The 7th Guest'' and ''The 11th Hour (computer game), The 11th Hour'' games. The company was reformed in 2010 by co-founder Rob Landeros, with some of its original titles being re-released. History ''The 7th Guest'' ''The 7th Guest'' was one of the first computer games for CD-ROM. Most of the footage for the game was filmed with a United States dollar, US$35,000 budget, Super VHS cameras, and blue butcher paper as a background that would later be removed using chromakey to insert the actors in the game. In the game, the player must move around the map solving puzzles in a style similar to ''Myst''. Most of the puzzles in ''The 7th Guest'' were based on versions of real puzzles invented by people such as Max Bezzel. The 7th Guest was the first game to use full rendered 3D animation and navigation. For the time, it had state-of-the-art graphi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CD-ROM
A CD-ROM (, compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data. Computers can read—but not write or erase—CD-ROMs. Some CDs, called enhanced CDs, hold both computer data and audio with the latter capable of being played on a CD player, while data (such as software or digital video) is only usable on a computer (such as ISO 9660 format PC CD-ROMs). During the 1990s and early 2000s, CD-ROMs were popularly used to distribute software and data for computers and fifth generation video game consoles. DVD started to replace it in these roles starting in the early 2000s. History The earliest theoretical work on optical disc storage was done by independent researchers in the United States including David Paul Gregg (1958) and James Russel (1965–1975). In particular, Gregg's patents were used as the basis of the LaserDisc specification that was co-developed between MCA and Philips after MCA purchased ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reversi
Reversi is a strategy board game for two players, played on an 8×8 uncheckered board. It was invented in 1883. Othello, a variant with a fixed initial setup of the board, was patented in 1971. Basics There are sixty-four identical game pieces called ''disks'', which are light on one side and dark on the other. Players take turns placing disks on the board with their assigned color facing up. During a play, any disks of the opponent's color that are in a straight line and bounded by the disk just placed and another disk of the current player's color are turned over to the current player's color. The objective of the game is to have the majority of disks turned to display one's color when the last playable empty square is filled. History Original version Englishmen Lewis Waterman and John W. Mollett both claim to have invented the game of Reversi in 1883, each denouncing the other as a fraud. The game gained considerable popularity in England at the end of the 19th century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ataxx
''Ataxx'' (アタックス) is a strategy video game published in arcades by Leland Corporation in 1990. Two players compete on a seven-by-seven square grid. The object of the game is for a player to have a majority of the pieces on the board at the end of the game, by converting as many of their opponent's pieces as possible. In a single-player game, the opponents are "bio-invaders from a different dimension." The concept was invented earlier by Dave Crummack and Craig Galley for the unreleased 1988 video game ''Infection''. Virgin Mastertronic licensed it to Leland as well as using the design in its own '' Spot: The Video Game'' released the same year as ''Ataxx''. There are numerous independently developed clones. Although ''Ataxx'' was sold as a video game and not with a physical game board, it can be played with a Reversi set. at |
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