Album Of The Day: Myst Soundtrack by Robyn Miller

Album Art of Robyn Miller's Myst Soundtrack album - On the outside, a series of a few frames, first one dark green and the next one looks like a copper color with lines and squares. Inside of that, in each of the four corners, there's a metal tip of a fountain pen with some flourishes around them, and inside that a copper-colored circle. In the middle is a copper and black/green design of a library building with columns around the front door and a sliver of a moon above the building. Above the main circle is a circle with a lighthouse, to the right a wooden windmill, below it a gear, and on the left a rocket.

32 years ago this week, a computer game by the name of Myst was released. Released a few years later on CD was the soundtrack, 40 minutes of music by Robyn Miller, one of the co-creators of the game's story and graphics as well. The game finds the player exploring a series of fantastical islands full of mysterious artifacts and journals, and you have to figure out what's going on and how you got there. The music, all created by synthesizers, adds an otherworldly and suspenseful quality to the game. Although the music is designed to be experienced within the game, the soundtrack album does work as instrumentals on its own. If you've never played Myst, I recommend checking it out, and the latest version looks even more realistic than ever before thanks to modern computers and the hard work of a committed team of developers and artists.

Release Year: 1995
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A photo of a man holding the Myst vinyl package up next to his face. He's smiling and looking at the camera with a bit of a toothy smile and is in a yellow-ish room with a lamp and other media behind him.

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