Dejin
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It’s supposed to be. They just mentioned it in a tweet earlier this morning. Still no sign of it in the App that I can tell though.
I’m anxious to hear more about Twelve Minutes, looks interesting.
Humankind showed up on my Game Pass app on my phone. So it should be installed when I get home from work today.
Meanwhile Microsoft Solitaire collection is supposed to be released today too.
It’s easy on the easiest game difficulty. Just try it.
Humankind didn’t pop up as as suggestion when I was typing in the search bar, but if I do an actual search (type “humankind” and hit enter) it pops up as the first result (apparently Zombie Army 4 is the 2nd best result for humankind lol) - nowadays it has a price but also has a tiny “game pass” icon in the thumbnail for the ones that are free to play with GamePass.
Re: Nex Machina
I wouldn’t say it’s easy exactly, but because stuff dies faster, it’s a game about being aggressive and killing things fast, and lots of fun. On the second difficulty, the game changes quite drastically, since everything has more hit points, so everything lives longer and gets to shoot at you more, and you spend much more time dodging to stay alive. I wanted to like the game on difficulty levels higher than easy, but I always inevitably pay too much attention to offense and not defense and die.
So I personally would only recommend the easy difficulty of Nex Machina.
Is there a Myst remake, or is that the original?
Looks like another remake. Releasing on console as well as PC -
I remember going to the university computer store and gawking at Myst and the Apple Newton in 1993.
Now that I think about it, I have never actually played a Myst game. Looks like I’ll be able to close a little gap in my gamer history.
It was one of the first CD-ROM games I owned. I bought a Creative Labs Sound Blaster-16 and CD-ROM drive for the Compaq 486 DX2/50 I got right after I got hired to work at Electronics Boutique in 1993. That package came with Loom, The 7th Guest, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and a few others, but Myst was the killer app of the day. I needed all that stuff for “research” for my new job. ;)
Myst was definitely the game that drove CD-ROM drive sales on the Mac side when it came out. Curiously I never bought or played it when I heard it was mostly about static pretty images and solving some mystery or other (did I hear wrong?). Too busy playing stuff like Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra and of course, the AWESOME SimCity 2000 on my SE/30 with a 14" Seiko 640x480 fixed res monitor* , in glorious 8-bit color.
*which alone cost around 500 clams at the time, ugh. When I think of all the money I’ve spent…
Same here! I played and completed Myst without any hints. I remember brute-forcing my way through a 3-digit combination lock. I started at 001 and just went up from there. It finally clicked open somewhere in the 700’s. Later, I discovered the combination written on a tree or something. I guess I had plenty of time on my hands in my early 20s.
I guess, yeah. I don’t know of any other. I recycled it at some point so unfortunately can’t check it now but I’m sure that was the stated brand, anyway. Trying to find images of it.
Timex
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Weird, I had no idea they ever made monitors.
I can’t find any reference to them, although apparently they once made a watch with a tiny TV screen. (which needed a large external receiver, which in retrospect, could have just housed a larger screen on its own)
When I typed Seiko computer monitor into Google images, I found one for a 20 in “Seiko Instruments” model. The one I had was 14" and actually had a Trinitron tube (or a knockoff thereof, I suppose).
The one linked here is a multisync, so probably from the late 90s:
https://www.recycledgoods.com/seiko-instruments-cm-2050c-20-super-vga-non-interlaced/
Can’t remember if Mac monitors back in the early 90s used standard SVGA ports or something else.
Dejin
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Nope, that’s pretty much it. IIRC some of the puzzles were also based on sound. I can’t remember if the original version allowed you to pan your view or not, or maybe that got added later, but IIRC you moved instantly from one fixed point to another.
Timex
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Neat, they’re apparently some subdivision of Seiko, and they still exist.
Best. Discipline. Name. Ever.
