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Legend has it that The 7th Guest's creators were 'fired' on the spot after pitching the game—it's 'hyperbole,' but not entirely untrue

PCGamer latest ·Tyler Wilde·3 days ago
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Inset: Rob Landeros, one of the creators of The 7th Guest. (Image credit: Trilobyte Games/Rob Landeros) Myst is the game best known for driving adoption of the CD-ROM drive, but as a Halloween-obsessed kid in the '90s, The 7th Guest was where it was at for me. The 1993 puzzle-adventure game was, like Myst, one of the first games that required a CD-ROM drive—but unlike Myst, sometimes your mouse cursor was a skull with bulging eyeballs and a throbbing brain. Hell yeah. In the spirit of the original's once cutting-edge hardware requirement, a remake of The 7th Guest came out for VR headsets in 2023. A non-VR version of that remake is now due out June 4 on Steam , which led me to chat with the remake's director, Paul van der Meer, and one of the creators of the original 1993 game, Rob Landeros. I took the opportunity to ask about a bit of '90s gaming lore: The supposed on-the-spot "firing" of Landeros and programmer Graeme Devine after they pitched the idea for The 7th Guest.…

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