![]() ![]() ![]() The plot revolves around the machinations of one Henry Stauf. The 7th Guest has a wonderful classical style ghost story to it. Those people would have a hard time finding anyone to really argue against them. Many people point to 7th Guest as the zeitgeist that led us to eschew an older but more comfortable form of technology for a new, untested, but potentially superior one. This technical achievement, which carried over onto a whopping TWO CD-ROM’s was able to inspire millions of people across the world to pick up the game, and also shed their old floppy disc drives for a CD-ROM one. It also combined graphics that not only featured pre-rendered backgrounds that were simply gorgeous in its day (and still hold up well in this modern era), but it also combined the computer generated graphics with actual SVGA/VESA video (representing the ghosts that haunted Stauf’s mansion) that interacted seamlessly with their surroundings. Trilobyte and Virgin gave us not only one of the first CD-ROM games, but also one that turned out to be YEARS ahead of what any other developer would be doing with the technology. ![]() Systems Released On: DOS, MAC, Phillips CD-Iįor quite some time, The 7th Guest was the best selling PC game of all time. ![]()
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