Filed under: Fun, Games, iPhone
Myst for iPhone: a handheld version of a classic game
When I was growing up, Myst was the most fantastic game imaginable. There seemed to be no object at first, but a story eventually revealed itself to patient gamers who figured out how to solve its puzzles. For the time, its graphics were amazing, and the sounds and cutscenes blew us away. Now you can recapture that experience in portable form, because Myst is available on the iPhone.Although I haven't played through the whole thing, word is it's a complete copy of the original game we love. The point-and-click play style of Myst is perfect for the iPhone, and it's sure to give you hours of fun, even if you've beaten it before. I don't know about you, but I don't remember the answers to every puzzle. The price and the disk space are both formidable, at $5.99 and over 700 megs. Still, 6 bucks is far less than we paid for it when it first came out, and our computers couldn't run it as well as an iPhone can. Worth a look.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
