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Myst was a slideshow disguised as a 3D world

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The beautiful, atmospheric world that blew people's minds in the nineties contained absolutely zero real-time 3D rendering. The entire game was just a meticulously linked slideshow of pre-rendered, static images compressed onto a disc, forcing players to imagine a dynamic universe that was fundamentally just an extremely complicated photo album.

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