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This is a walkthrough, hints, tips, and solutions book for the video game "Myst". There are puzzle by puzzle solutions to each of the games mysteries. It is written in a journal type narrative with the player being talked through the game. The story is that of a person that finds themselves alone on a mysterious island, and must solve puzzles to find out things about each location, and 'Age' that they visit. There are many gray-scale screenshots as well as original production black and white illustrations. Besides the narrtive version there is also a quick solutions and explanations section at the end of the book. The "Revised and Expanded" version of this book includes a new "Foreword", interviews with Rand and Robyn Miller, and a color map/fold out poster that is the size of six pages of the book, it is sealed by a perforation at the center of the book.
Themes & subjects
Video gamesVideogamesGamesStrategyPuzzlesPasstimes
First published 1993Characters & people
Setting
Myst1993-1995
About the authors
Rusel DeMaria
1948
Rusel DeMaria is the pen-name of Russell Ehrman. He began writing computer related articles in the late 1980's and published a few books on computers, contributed to magazines such as 'Computer Play', 'GamePro' and 'Personal Computer Games', advancing to Editor for both of the latter two. In 1990 he was contacted by Ben Dominitz of Prima Publishing to produce a series of video game books. He became creative-director of the videogames books. The Prima video game series went under two titles, Prima Publishing's 'Secrets of the Games', and 'Game Buster: Get a Clue', before shorting their production titles to simply "Prima Games". He had his first bestseller with the release of the 'Myst: Offici…
Prima Games
Prima Games is a division of "Prima Publishing" which was a small publisher working out of a residential-style home office in Roseville, California. Prima Games began as a series of game tip books, when in 1990 its owner, Ben Dominitz, contracted with author Rusel DeMaria to create a video game strategy guide imprint, initially called "The Secrets of the Games". At the time, DeMaria was senior editor for PC Games magazine and on the staff of GamePro. The initial contract called for five books - the first ones being Nintendo Games Secrets, Sega Genesis Games Secrets, Turbografx Games Secrets, GameBoy Games Secrets and The Official Lucasfilm Games Air Combat Strategies Book. {--Source: Wikiped…
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