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33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.

My strategy guide was the physical empty journal you shipped with it. As in, I was a kid when I played it and when I was feeling really stuck, I would look through the notes my father took in the journal. I lament that we lost this kind of thing in the modern age of gaming.

ahhh the guide with the first person narration! I think when I stumbled across that I just sat and read it like a book before I ever played the game

There was something magical about those old first-person strategy guides. I remember reading through the Prince of Persia one many times as a kid. Maybe the magic was the “I was a kid” part, but still.