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Originally Posted by QFG
However, I don't have ANY sales figures or magazine articles to back up my ideas. It's just a general cultural impression.
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If you want sales figures, Myst was the best-selling PC game in the US from its release until 1996. In 1997 it was the second-best, being topped only by its sequel. Curse of Monkey Island - also released in 1997 - was nowhere near the top of the chart, and only sold about 100,000 copies that year compared to the million+ sales of each of the Myst games.
Myst was a huge phenomenon played and loved by many who never touched computer games otherwise. Monkey Island is a classic to a great many computer gamers, but totally unheard of by everyone else.
Maybe things are different in Europe, but in America, comparing the popularity of MI to Myst is a joke.
