Customer Reviews

Myst the Collection (The First 5 for XP or 2K)

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I love puzzling challenges and this is right up my alley. I love the graphics and audio. I bought the original Myst game back when we had Windows 95 and had a blast playing it. Thank goodness I kept some notes! I can't wait to play the rest of the set. This ought to keep me busy from some time. I love everything about it. The only down side to the set is that you have to have different versions of quicktime to play each game, but that's to be expected since these were all created over a long period of time. The big drawback to the QT issue is you can't play Itunes unless you reinstall QT7 and then you have to uninstall it and reinstall the QT version for the game you want to play.

myst installed on vista
riven will not... haven't tried the others.
major bummer.

My husband and I ordered this to have a game that we could play together. It provides a lot of entertainment for the buck, if you're into puzzle games of this type. We enjoy exploring the worlds and figuring out the puzzles.

We did have quite a bit of trouble getting the first two games to work in Windows XP; however, there's a lot of information on the web regarding how to trick it out. Basically, you have to downgrade to a very early version on DirectX (which will break any newer games for awhile) and run the game in a special mode in Windows that isolates it and makes it think it's running in an earlier version of Windows. If you know your way around a computer, it will be no problem. If you aren't comfortable with the technical side, you will probably not be able to run the first two games.